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Alison Soares felt a tremendous sense of relief when her mother was admitted to Agape House. Hillary Soares was in the final stages of Lou Gehrig’s disease. She struggled to breathe, had a feeding tube and couldn’t move. The irony was that the 70-yea...

Approximately 9,000 people (12 per cent) living in Bermuda have asthma. It is the number one reason children take medication whilst at school, and the number one reason they miss school. It’s also the leading reason adults miss days from work. Resp...

If the Bermuda scenes don’t grab your attention, the music likely will. Runners Natalie Dyrli, Anna Laura Hocking, Nicole Andreasen, Emma Norman and Whitney Iuliano are Spice Girls characters in a fundraising video that’s had more than 1,000 views an...

They don’t allow footballs on the field during playtime at Victor Scott Primary School. The children were getting into too many fights over the balls. Principal Valerie Williams is hoping Bermuda national football team coach Andrew Bascome will help...

Julee Smith is considered a hero, of sorts, at Westgate Correctional Facility. About 15 per cent of the inmates suffer from asthma; the nurse recently took a course to better help them out. “In nursing school there was only a chapter or two on asthma...

Cheryl Staurulakis is leading a cause to get residents protected against the human papilloma virus, better known as HPV. The 53-year-old was outraged after watching a documentary about the virus, and how easily it could be prevented. “If there was a ...

No one was surprised when Andrea Beazley announced she had quit her job to start her own business. She had worked in fashion for years but all she seemed to talk about was nutrition. Good Health Girl seemed a perfect fit. “People saw the passion I ha...

The desks weren’t ready and there weren’t any books, but the school was a dream come true for Joanne Ball Burgess. She and her husband Quincy Burgess struggled to find the perfect way to educate their two sons when the family moved to Nairobi, Kenya ...

Type 2 Diabetes once known as “the old people’s disease”, is now affecting people at a much younger age. The 40-60 age groups, our working population, have the fastest rising number of diabetes diagnoses. This means that if blood glucose levels are n...

We’ve all heard that Bermuda has the highest rate of lower-limb amputations in the developed world. We have high rates of kidney disease and half of patients on dialysis here in Bermuda have diabetes. Why do we have such poor outcomes? In the United ...