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A new study has discovered a dramatic drop in the levels of mercury found in pregnant women in Bermuda in the last decade.
A paper published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE compares two studies conducted in 2003 and 2011 which reveal a significant...
DATE: Mar 14, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A shortage of vital children’s vaccines has hit the Island — for the second time in nine months.
Paediatricians are telling patients they are out of supplies of a number of different jabs for infants, including those that prevent meningitis, chickenp...
DATE: Feb 27, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
An insurance company has pledged to make sure a speech-impaired toddler gets the medical help she needs — after the child’s mother was made redundant twice in the past year.
Single mother Alvina Brangman had begun fundraising to ensure her two-year-o...
DATE: Feb 19, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Minister for Health Patricia Gordon-Pamplin has said that the impact on the community was at the forefront of the thinking surrounding the closing of the Lamb Foggo Urgent Care Centre.
However, while the need to provide a facility for the population ...
DATE: Nov 01, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A vendor is being sought to operate a retail pharmacy in the new acute care wing of the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.
The retail pharmacy will be for outpatients and the community, with Bermuda Hospitals Board’s Pharmacy Department continuing to...
DATE: Oct 29, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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A norovirus has been linked to a series of illnesses in Gordon Ward at King Edward VII Memorial in the last week.
However, a spokeswoman for the Bermuda Hospitals Board said no new cases of the illness were reported in the Gordon Ward yesterday.
“The...
DATE: Mar 02, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A patients’ advocate told the Bermuda Hospitals Board to “bring it on” after they threatened to sue for libel over his group’s outspoken remarks.
Mark Selley of the Bermuda Healthcare Advocacy Group [BHAG] has been calling for a commission of inquiry...
DATE: Oct 22, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Health
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King Edward VII Memorial Hospital outpatient services will offer free health screenings to the public on Wednesday.
The initiative is part of the KEMH’s Healthy Heart Month.
It allows people to get tested for blood pressure, blood sugar, weight circ...
DATE: Feb 07, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Health
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