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A record number of schools have received top marks in a campaign to encourage students to adopt healthier lifestyles.
At this year’s Healthy Schools Awards, Education Minister Nalton Brangman revealed that 25 of the 32 schools that took part in the s...
DATE: Jun 13, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Men are often reluctant to go to the doctor for fear of hearing bad news or looking weak but they need to “know their numbers” when it comes to health, a meeting heard yesterday.
Rhonda Smith-Simmons, education officer for Bermuda Cancer and Health C...
DATE: Jun 12, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Bermuda’s health financing is a staggeringly complex arrangement — especially for a comparatively small jurisdiction.
“The input we’ve had from our advisers, who have experience of different health systems around the world, is that this is more comp...
DATE: Jun 11, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Shadow Health Minister Zane DeSilva has commended the new Chief Medical Officer Cheryl Peek-Ball on her appointment.
As the former Minister, Mr DeSilva recalled working with Dr Peek-Ball following her appointment to Acting CMO on January 1, 2012.
“He...
DATE: May 31, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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The new Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Cheryl Peek-Ball is to take office on June 1.
She has served as Acting CMO since the retirement of John Cann at the end of 2011.
Dr Peek-Ball’s appointment was announced as the Health Ministry said the CMO’s office...
DATE: May 29, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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Employees across the Island may discover their pay packets shrinking in the coming months as health insurance increases of as much as 20 percent kick in.
Most insurance companies are having to increase their fees to cover increases in Bermuda Hospita...
DATE: May 29, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Government is continuing to work on resolving a shortage of vaccines on the Island.
A spokeswoman for the Department of Health said the department has received a shipment of Gardisil and has begun to disperse it to physicians.
The department was howe...
DATE: May 25, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermuda raised $20,000 on an Island-wide denim day on behalf of the Bermuda Hospitals Charitable Trust.
The cash will go towards the redevelopment of King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.
More than 1,900 people from approximately 60 companies, four scho...
DATE: May 22, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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The head of a consultancy firm that conducted a review of Bermuda’s health system has defended his company’s final report, claiming that its findings could help save the Island $200 million in medical costs.
And Howard Associates managing director J...
DATE: May 22, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A controversial company set up by the Bermuda Hospitals Board is to be scrapped, health chiefs have confirmed.
Healthcare Partners Ltd was formed in 2008 to go into business with private partners as a subsidiary of BHB.
But the scheme soon came under...
DATE: May 21, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
