27 results returned for search: "independence AND " category "Health"
With more than a third of Alzheimer’s cases potentially preventable, people are being urged to take their health into their own hands.
According to Jo-Ann Cousins-Simpson, of The Family Practice, research has shown that exercise can cut the risk of d...
DATE: Apr 20, 2017
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Health
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Empty for years and in danger of falling into disrepair, a house at the back of Portland Lane in Sandys is soon to become a home.
Members of the Bermuda Mental Health Foundation gathered there yesterday with friends to celebrate the building’s reviva...
DATE: Jun 10, 2016
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Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Reducing rates of chronic, non-communicable diseases while achieving affordable healthcare cover are priorities of the Bermuda Goverment’s Health Action Plan, an industry symposium heard at the weekend.
Members of the health insurance and medical com...
DATE: Jan 18, 2016
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Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Ethical issues that arise over long-term care are being discussed by medical staff as part of Ethics Awareness Week.
Expert Christy Simpson, the head of the bioethics department at Dalhousie University, is working with staff from King Edward VII Memo...
DATE: Nov 03, 2015
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Health
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Mental Health Awareness Week officially started today, with an opening ceremony at the Mid Atlantic Wellness Institute.
Health Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin launched the annual event which this year will focus on the mental health of older adults....
DATE: Oct 07, 2013
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Health
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Cancer patient and research assistance group PALS has committed $200,000 from its Children’s Care Fund to two paediatric cancer research studies.
PALS president and CEO Ann Smith Gordon announced the funds will go to research studies by physicians as...
DATE: Jun 28, 2013
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Health
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Known for his insightful and outgoing personality, 16-year-old Nahge O’Brien, the young sailor well-known to the Bermuda Sloop Foundation, lost his battle to cancer on Sunday.
Nahge succumbed to leukaemia at St Jude’s Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee w...
DATE: Apr 26, 2012
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Health
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