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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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More than 100 people have been admitted to the Mid Atlantic Wellness Institute for depression in the last five years.
With the number expected to increase, the institution yesterday announced it would begin training as part of a mental health first a...
DATE: Oct 09, 2012
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Bermudian community activist, filmmaker and songwriter LA Virgil will be taking to the streets of Philadelphia next month to raise awareness of brain tumours.
On November 4, Ms Virgil will take part in the seventh annual National Brain Tumour Society...
DATE: Oct 05, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the Bermuda Cancer and Health Association has teamed with the Ministry of Health to inform the public about the Island’s fight against breast cancer, its awareness events and the organisations behind Breas...
DATE: Oct 05, 2012
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Health Minister Zane DeSilva should resign in order to restore credibility to the Island’s healthcare system, according to patient advocate Mark Selley.
Mr Selley, a founder of Bermuda Healthcare Advocacy Group says they have been calling on the hosp...
DATE: Oct 04, 2012
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The focus on Bermuda’s healthcare system should be on service more than salaries, according to Health Minister Zane DeSilva.
“Our discussion about our only hospital should be less about salaries and more about quality of care,” he said yesterday.
His...
DATE: Oct 03, 2012
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Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Some Bermudians may have been infected with Hepatitis C while patients at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and the US facility has asked the Bermuda Hospitals Board to assist in collecting blood to forward to them for testing.
The Baltimore, Maryland facility...
DATE: Oct 03, 2012
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The Opposition’s spokeswoman for seniors Louise Jackson said there are more questions than answers in the wake of the resignation of hospital’s chief of staff.
Dr Donald Thomas who was suspended in July, resigned from the top post at King Edward Memo...
DATE: Oct 02, 2012
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