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Five nurses have just completed a demanding 6-month asthma diploma course. Tiffany DeSilva -KEMH Catlin-Lindo, Alien Guilas – KEMH IV team, Kedese McPherson – KEMH maternity, Aashiqa Mehta-Smith – KEMH Gosling and Trevor Bend – Department of Correcti...

Courses should be offered for caregivers to help people recover from strokes, a campaigner for the physically disabled said yesterday. Willard Fox, the chairman of the Bermuda Physically Handicapped Association, welcomed news that a specialist stroke...

An expert on diabetes has been appointed as a consultant endocrinologist by the Bermuda Hospitals Board. Andrew Jamieson, from, Glasgow, Scotland, previously worked to tackle the disease in the United Arab Emirates. Dr Jamieson said: “I am looking fo...

Consider Team Hope as you are approached by runners eager to raise funds during the Bermuda Day Half Marathon Derby. They help people like Toccara Burch-Waldron, a nine-year-old student at Dame Marjorie Bean Hope Academy. Born with cerebral palsy, s...

Some walked because they won, some walked because they lost, some walked because they battled and some hoped they would not be next, but each of them thought about the same thing — cancer. Survivors were joined by their friends and families as they t...

More than 2,300 people fight back against cancer at one of Bermuda’s biggest charity events this weekend. About 120 teams are expected to take part in the anti-cancer Relay for Life and organisers hope even more people will come along to show their ...

World Lupus Day will be marked today. The event was designed to bring together people affected by the autoimmune disease. The Bermuda Lupus Association will hold a tag day tomorrow. The tag day will run from 10am to 6pm in Hamilton, with tag sellers ...

Pupils and parents were given advice on asthma when they gathered at an awareness event at City Hall. Asthma charity Open Airways organised “Helping Bermuda Breathe” to mark World Asthma Day and spread the message about the condition, which affects m...

When testicular cancer was first diagnosed in me in 1984, at age 26, I heard but three words: “You have cancer.” Then my mind went to Brian’s Song — that 1971 TV movie that chronicled the life and death of pro football player Brian Piccolo. He also ...

Tereska James has a message for people of colour: put on the sunblock, slip on a hat, seek out the shade — it’s a myth that being brown will protect you from skin cancer. Her family found out the hard way in September 2015, after doctors discovered h...

Bermuda’s nearly 30-year record of being measles-free could be under threat after a drop in vaccination rates, and a surge in cases abroad, the Minister for Health warned yesterday. Kim Wilson said the number of young children receiving the measles, ...

A free seminar on Parkinson’s disease will be held today. Diana Apetauerova, director of the Movement Disorders Programme at Lahey Health and Medical Centre, will discuss deep brain stimulation, the main treatment for Parkinson’s. She will also talk ...