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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 ...

For many people, making a sandwich is a chore, but for Craig Dickens it’s an adventure. Mental challenges made it necessary for the 51-year-old to live with his mother for most of his life. A year ago he had the opportunity to move into a group home...

The vast majority of personal trainer Jeremy Smith’s clients weren’t athletes or gym rats. They were regular businessmen and women who struggled to find the time to work out. His solution? Beat the Desk, a website that offers exercise plans and nu...

Gretchen Conyers realised she was different once she started elementary school. It was hard to pay attention and stay organised and she couldn’t read at the same level as her friends. She received a formal diagnosis at eight — attention deficit hype...

It’s not easy going back to school at 39. But drug addiction counsellor Isis Wellman is determined to do so to combat what she sees as Bermuda’s growing tide of drug addiction. Mrs Wellman works for the Turning Point Substance Abuse Programme. She re...

A new school year brings special challenges for the 2,000 children in Bermuda with asthma. The disease is the main reason why students miss classes, according to Open Airways. The asthma charity yesterday offered the following tips for keeping childr...

Suffering from back pain? Duane Pitt is someone you need to see. The Bermudian has been recognised as one of the top spine surgeons in the US because of the work he does out of his Scottsdale, Arizona practice, Desert Institute for Spine Disorders. A...

Jennie Lightbourne comes from a line of pharmacists. Despite strong urging from her father and grandfather, she wasn’t drawn to the profession. Both were pharmacists who owned their own pharmacies in Ireland. Mrs Lightbourne took a different path. “I...

Thirteen years ago Richard Harrison was earning a lot of money as a systems analyst in London. It wasn’t enough. He quit his job with one of the world’s pharmaceutical giants and bought a ticket for South Korea. His plan was to spend a year there he...

Bernie O’Reilly Hook had four children under the age of six when she went off to university. Friends and family questioned her sanity. But she was 31 and had dreamed of becoming a pharmacist since she was a teenager. “Everybody said it was physically...