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A total of 20 healthcare workers have passed an advanced course in dementia care. The course was organised by Yana Swainson, owner of Bermuda In Home Care, who invited Bernice Perzel, a dementia care training specialist from the American-based Nation...

A new charity wants to tackle Bermuda’s preventable health problems by helping people get the right health information. The Community for Heart and Respiratory Medicine was set up to take on chronic non-communicable diseases by filling in gaps in he...

Bermuda is “bleeding itself to death” from the cost of treating chronic diseases. The warning came from Hans Diehl, a US expert in preventive medicine and founder of a programme designed to cut the impact of preventable diseases. Dr Diehl, who start...

Friends of Hospice is continuing the conversation on death and dying with a community event this weekend. The final activity of World Hospice and Palliative Care Week will feature a panel discussion and activities for participants. Friends of Hospi...

Bermuda needs a plan to deal with its dementia time bomb, an expert said yesterday. Jo-Ann Cousins-Simpson said a national plan would help improve access to diagnosis, treatment and care, and promote a better quality of life for those living with th...

A proposed sugar tax should not concentrate on sodas, the head of an island soft drinks distributor said yesterday. Bruce Barritt, general manager of John Barritt & Son warned that a fresh tax on soft drinks could impact business and jobs. He said: ...

Bermuda Healthcare Services and Brown-Darrell Clinic will be hosting its quarterly “Docs for Dinner” event at Café Lido tomorrow. The guest speaker is Jay Alexander Graham, an abdominal transplant surgeon in the Bronx at Montefiore Medical Centre, wh...

Waleed Lightbourne always wanted to be a nurse. His mother worked as a nurses’ aide for more than four decades and the love and care she showed her patients inspired him. As the first male graduate of the Bermuda College’s Associate Degree in Nursi...

The mother of a special needs adult has criticised the island’s lack of resources, claiming clients are being neglected. And the woman said the only specialist unit, the K. Margaret Carter Centre, was decades behind international standards and had co...

A total of 75 seniors took advantage of the second health clinic hosted by Age Concern this year. The event took place at the Lamb Foggo Urgent Care Centre in the East End and included vitals, eye and dental screenings. According to Age Concern’s exe...