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Government’s smoking ban has been credited with helping to reduce Bermuda’s smoking rate.
Anti-smoking campaigner Charles Jeffers said Bermuda should now take the next step and ban smoking in the entrance of buildings and doorways.
The Bermuda Healt...
DATE: Jan 24, 2011
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A drug treatment centre is launching a new programme to help teenagers curb their marijuana and alcohol use.
Caron Bermuda, along with lead sponsor HSBC, expects to assist 210 teens and their families in the first year of the programme.
The program...
DATE: Jan 24, 2011
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Families of patients at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital will now have a private room to take a break, collect their thoughts or grieve.
A patient family lounge was officially unveiled on the third floor of the hospital yesterday.
Community activi...
DATE: Jan 18, 2011
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Representatives from pharmaceutical companies that make the leading HPV vaccinations will be at a Department of Health public meeting next week.
Yesterday, Minister of Health Zane DeSilva launched Cervical Health Awareness Month.
The meeting, which w...
DATE: Jan 11, 2011
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Doctors are hopeful the Ministry of Health's new guidelines on stem cells will bring the row over former Premier Ewart Brown's Winterhaven project to an end.
But as Government maintains its silence on the issue, Shadow Health Minister Louise Jackson ...
DATE: Jan 03, 2011
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Health
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Don't make getting fit a New Year's resolution, make it a ‘life resolution' that's the message from Health Minister Zane DeSilva.
Mr DeSilva is encouraging residents to take control of their health this year and said simple changes to exercise or di...
DATE: Jan 03, 2011
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A US former physician, known for his kindly treatment of Bermudian patients travelling to Johns Hopkins Hospital, has died at the age of 71.
Marc Doura, an international patient services care coordinator at the Baltimore, Maryland facility, passed aw...
DATE: Dec 17, 2010
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Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Health Department has shifted its water quality testing to Southside because its intended location is not ready yet.
Works Minister Derrick Burgess said Health Ministry labs had to be moved from Point Finger Road, Paget, because the hospital rede...
DATE: Dec 11, 2010
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Health
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) Yoga master Tao Porchon-Lynch, 92 years young, kept repeating her life's motto, there is nothing you cannot do, before a packed workshop in New York City.Then, light as a bird, she glided into a gravity-defying arm balanc...
DATE: Dec 10, 2010
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Health Minister Zane DeSilva yesterday donated blood in a bid to draw awareness to the Bermuda Red Cross Blood Donor Centre's drive for more donors.
Joined by his wife Joanne, Mr DeSilva went to the Centre at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital yesterd...
DATE: Dec 09, 2010
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