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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...

Asthma sufferers visited the Emergency Department at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital more than 2,000 times last year. It needn’t be so. According to asthma charity Open Airways, each of those visits signals an asthma management plan that has faile...

Ahmani Peets is on the honour roll at Whitney Institute Middle School; among family members his prowess at Wii is legendary. He’s also autistic. As a young child he survived on a handful of items: cranberry sauce, water, apple juice, bread and macar...

Teenager Sachio Harrison wanted to raise money for cancer charities but knew his efforts alone wouldn’t be enough. He inspired the entire student body at Somersfield Academy to help him achieve his goal and together they raised $16,785.66. The money ...