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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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Health
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The Bermuda Health Council could regulate the entry of high-cost medical equipment to Bermuda.
Last week Health Minister Zane DeSilva said the BHC was working on policy recommendations which could lead to legislation regulating services provided...
DATE: Dec 08, 2010
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Health
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A colonoscopy is nowhere near as bad as it sounds, declared Health Minister Zane DeSilva after he underwent the procedure yesterday.
Mr DeSilva was back at work feeling “awesome” shortly after his operation at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital yester...
DATE: Dec 07, 2010
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Progress has been made in revamping Bermuda's health care industry, Health Minister Zane DeSilva has said.
It was stated at a recent health care financing summit that 34 percent of 104 recommendations from a 1996 examination of the Island's heal...
DATE: Dec 06, 2010
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Health
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The Bermuda Hospitals Board will make its first payment for the hospital redevelopment in 2014.
Health Minister Zane DeSilva told the House of Assembly under the agreement between Paget Health Services (PHS), the company that will be building and mai...
DATE: Dec 06, 2010
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Health
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Once crippled by obesity, 14-year-old Kjeld Steede is now fighting fit.
At the age of ten and on the brink of diabetes, he weighed nearly 200 pounds and suffered from dangerously high blood pressure.
But a 2006 trip to Dockyard aboard the Bermuda Slo...
DATE: Dec 04, 2010
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Health
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Health Minister Zane DeSilva congratulated the Bermuda Hospitals Board for last night signing a project agreement for the new hospital site.
The agreement with Paget Health Services (PHS), a consortium of experienced local and international firms, a...
DATE: Dec 02, 2010
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