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The hospital’s fleet of top-of-the-range ambulances is being scrapped after just four years of service because of continual mechanical faults.
And the Bermuda Hospitals Board has been forced to use a spare emergency vehicle provided by the St John’s ...
DATE: Oct 25, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Men on the Island are being asked to prepare their upper lips because Movember is almost here.
The fourth annual Movember Bermuda fundraiser is set to start next Friday, with men growing moustaches to raise awareness and funding for local men’s healt...
DATE: Oct 25, 2013
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Health
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Gone are the old days of managing care for Bermuda’s mental ill.
This from Deputy Chief of Psychiatry at Mid Atlantic Wellness Institute Dr Anna Neilson-Williams following concerns raised by a woman whose father is mentally ill. The article, publishe...
DATE: Oct 24, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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Health officials have finally stepped in to rescue neighbours from a derelict home in Sandys that has become a breeding ground for rats and mosquitoes.
According to East Shore Drive residents a team of Environmental Health staff called in on the prop...
DATE: Oct 23, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Local spas faced with calls from concerned customers, but Government won’t formally release name ‘unless it’s in the interest of public health’
By Jonathan Bell
A storm of criticism has followed Government’s refusal to name the spa linked to an outbr...
DATE: Oct 15, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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A trip abroad turned into a “nightmare” for a local man who fell victim to an MRSA outbreak contracted from the Tai Homespa.
Requesting anonymity, the man told The Royal Gazette: “I lay in a delirious state in a hospital bed for days with a temperatu...
DATE: Oct 15, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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A Hamilton spa has confirmed it was the source of an outbreak of the bacterial infection MRSA, linked to at least 20 cases over recent weeks — but said it now has a clean bill of health.
Tai Homespa owner Juan Smith said his business would reimburse ...
DATE: Oct 15, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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Details on groundbreaking new research in genetic testing that makes it possible to predict with more accuracy the inherited predisposition to breast cancer will be the subject of a keynote address during Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
The presentati...
DATE: Oct 14, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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The Island’s mentally challenged have all the space they need under the Government’s adult new day programme, according to the official in charge of the Orange Valley Centre.
Ten years ago, the centre was temporarily placed in its own wing of the Mid...
DATE: Oct 14, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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An outbreak of drug-resistant bacteria that causes painful skin infections has been traced to a single worker at a particular Pembroke spa.
Government last night declined to name the facility, citing privacy reasons, but said the business had been cl...
DATE: Oct 14, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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