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Heron Bay Primary School parents can rest easy: after a screening for tuberculosis by the Department of Health, no new cases have merged among students.
Health officials took action last week after a P3 student tested positive for TB.
They announced ...
DATE: Oct 25, 2012
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The combination of the Island’s escalating healthcare costs and the state of elder care is a “sleeping time bomb” in need of an immediate fix, seniors’ advocate Claudette Fleming has claimed.
And pensioners can’t afford to wait until a Government rev...
DATE: Oct 23, 2012
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A patients’ advocate told the Bermuda Hospitals Board to “bring it on” after they threatened to sue for libel over his group’s outspoken remarks.
Mark Selley of the Bermuda Healthcare Advocacy Group [BHAG] has been calling for a commission of inquiry...
DATE: Oct 22, 2012
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Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre will host a free presentation on breast health next Thursday.
Breast radiologist David Green and pathologist Jane Brock will speak at the presentation, which is part of ongoing efforts to raise awareness.
Topics inclu...
DATE: Oct 20, 2012
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The Flu Express events, designed to provide anti-flu jabs across the Island, have been delayed due to a problem obtaining the vaccine.
A Department of Health spokeswoman said: “This is due to a shipping delay which has affected the arrival of the inf...
DATE: Oct 20, 2012
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Health officials have assured parents of Heron Bay Primary school students that tuberculosis is not easy to catch.
About 35 parents turned up last night for a meeting at the school where one student has been found to have been infected with TB.
Their...
DATE: Oct 19, 2012
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Primary school pupils are being tested to check if there has been transmission of Tuberculosis at Heron Bay primary school.
Two people — one a P3 student at the school — have been diagnosed with TB. Both have been isolated, are being treated, and no ...
DATE: Oct 18, 2012
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Riders raised more than $7,000 for the Bermuda Red Cross in a 12-hour spinathon at Court House Squash and Wellness Centre.
The event’s success could see it become an annual one organisers had hoped to raise $5000 for the charity. More than 150 partic...
DATE: Oct 11, 2012
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Residents immunised against Typhoid by the Department of Health in the past year may have to get a second shot.
The department yesterday announced that pharmaceutical company Sanofi Pasteur had recalled batches of the vaccine administered here betwee...
DATE: Oct 11, 2012
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Government yesterday advised persons whose prescriptions were filled at Whites’ pharmacies to contact their doctor should they need more medicine.
Whites’ Pharmacy in Warwick and Whites’ Southside Pharmacy in St David’s both closed when the grocer we...
DATE: Oct 11, 2012
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