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Bermuda needs to tackle child obesity if it wants to curb a surge in demand for dialysis, experts have said. A spokesman for the Bermuda Diabetes Association explained there were about 250 people who had end-stage kidney disease, with the majority on...

The Eastern Lions Club has donated $1,500 to the Bermuda Diabetes Association in memory of the parents of one of its members. Eastern Lions president Delma Parfitt said the service club decided to make the donation to the association that in conjunc...

The caseload of the Bermuda Diabetes Association surged after the island endured more than one year of pandemic conditions, Hamilton Rotary Club heard yesterday. The charity tackling one of Bermuda’s most prevalent chronic illnesses also saw triple t...

An open day was held yesterday at a custom-built centre built by a diabetes charity. The Bermuda Diabetes Society event at the new Hilton Hill Diabetes Centre, held in Diabetes Awareness Month, was designed to promote education and resources availabl...

The public was asked to help build a “wall of hope” to support people living with diabetes in a campaign launched today. The Bermuda Diabetes Association said it hoped people would want to recognise loved ones as part of a fundraising drive for its n...

Bermuda Diabetes Association received more than $5,000 from the Hamilton Lions Club. The cash was raised at the 51st Annual Gas-O-Rama on February 8. A message from of Hamilton Lions Club president Lana Woods to the Association follows: Despite the r...

Diabetics will still get vital medicines even with a ban on flights and most ships because of the coronavirus pandemic. Debbie Jones, chairwoman of the Bermuda Diabetes Association, said the charity had also set up tents outside its headquarters in B...

The Portuguese-speaking population is being targeted through a new diabetes education programme. The Bermuda Diabetes Association said it is providing the service because language barriers can make it difficult to promote awareness about the disease....

Bermuda missed the chance to head off an obesity and diabetes epidemic decades ago, a former government head of physical education has claimed. John Moreby, who worked with the Department of Education for more than 20 years before he retired in 1995,...

A new option for diabetes sufferers to have a pancreas transplant in the US has been promoted in Bermuda. Jay Graham, an assistant professor and abdominal transplant surgeon at Montefiore Medical Centre in New York, said he was “very excited” about t...

A new diabetes centre will offer affordable medication and education under one roof, the Bermuda Diabetes Association said yesterday. Debbie Jones, the chairwoman, said the organisation was “acutely aware of the urgent need to improve our healthcare ...

As Valentine’s Day is upon us, there tends to be a focus on all things sweet and/or chocolate. Coincidentally, I just finished reviewing the Consultation document produced by the Government’s Ministry of Health in connection with the proposed sugar ...