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If you’re planning to do this year’s Catlin End-to-End race you might want to start improving your fitness in readiness for the May event and Health Minister Zane DeSilva and Catlin president Graham Pewter have got just the thing.
The pair have launc...
DATE: Feb 08, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A number of children became sick after attending a party at an unnamed establishment at the weekend, according to the Department of Health.
A Department spokeswoman said last night: “The Department has contacted the owner of the establishment involve...
DATE: Feb 08, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Government today launched a fitness programme to help people get in shape for the annual End-to-End walk.
Health Minister Zane DeSilva held a press conference this morning to outline Get Ready, Get Fit a 12-week fitness programme leading up to the Ma...
DATE: Feb 06, 2012
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Health
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The Meals on Wheels charity has been presented with $14,221 by Capital G bank, as part of the company’s fifth annual Holiday Giving Back fund raiser.
The donation, assisted by staff volunteers from the bank, covers the delivery of more than 1,000 mea...
DATE: Jan 23, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Health
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One family’s fight to save their premature baby’s life a battle that landed them with more than $1 million in medical costs has catapulted into a major fundraising gala to assist other families in need.
The $1,000-a-plate ticket for the Diamonds & C...
DATE: Jan 06, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Health
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Hundreds of patients unlucky enough to find themselves in hospital over Christmas, had a happier holiday thanks to the work of the Bermuda Junior Service League (BJSL).
Local businesses donated enough merchandise to enable the BJSL to assemble 401 Ch...
DATE: Jan 03, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Health
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Excavations for new facilities at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital uncovered a number of “sand pockets” at the site.
A spokesman for Paget Health Services, the company in charge of construction, said that naturally occurring voids and sand seams are...
DATE: Dec 30, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The community has rallied behind the cause of elderly widow Mrs O, a housebound 98-year-old suffering from dementia and in need of constant care.
Two weeks after the Lady Cubitt Compassionate Association (LCCA) stepped forward to collect donations, t...
DATE: Dec 29, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The hunt for low-cost healthcare has led one campaigner to a UK provider which she believes could treat Bermudians, including the elderly, at a substantially lower cost than in the US.
Searching for treatment for Bermuda’s war veterans and their fami...
DATE: Dec 28, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Politics is the most challenging aspect of running the Island’s hospitals, according to Herman Tucker.
“It’s trying to understand the political viewpoint while at the same time making sure the vision and the goals of the organisation are not compromi...
DATE: Dec 28, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Health
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