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Asthmatics should take extra precautions over the Covid-19 pandemic, a charity said yesterday. Liz Boden, the president of asthma group Open Airways, said people with the condition should use their preventer inhalers twice a day to keep it under cont...

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...

Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre has restricted services and delayed appointments as a result of the Covid-19 crisis. Lynne Woolridge, the CEO of the charity, said: “Our cancer patients are vulnerable to Covid-19. For this reason, we are committing t...

A US organisation dedicated to fighting cancer is to visit Bermuda to boost a fundraiser to battle the disease. The American Cancer Society will send members of their Global Relay for Life team to Bermuda this week to support the Bermuda Cancer and H...

A chief executive “mercilessly fired” from a key role at the Bermuda Health Council has been appointed to a top job at the island’s psychiatric hospital. Tawanna Wedderburn will become clinical director of mental health services at the Mid-Atlantic W...

Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre received an $11,500 boost thanks to a Birdies For Bermuda sponsorship scheme. Goslings International, an arm of the rum firm, donated $500 for every birdie scored by a Bermudian at the PGA Tour Bermuda Championship at...

A free health screening for men was held in Hamilton today. The Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre’s 2019 Men’s Health Screening offered tests for blood glucose, blood pressure, and kidney and skin analysis. Doctors and nutritionists were also on han...

Three nurses have just completed a demanding 6-month asthma diploma course. Allison Maycock -KEMH Gosling, Vasanthi Ashoke Kumar- KEMH Emergency and Brittany Darko-KEMH Emergency. The diploma course was made available in Bermuda through sponsorship f...

The wife of the late eye surgeon Leonard Teye-Botchway helped launch a fundraising campaign for a charity that helps the blind. Ronita Teye-Botchway purchased the first tag of Vision Bermuda’s annual tag day, which will take place tomorrow. Proceeds ...

The Ministry of Health in partnership with the Bermuda Hospitals Board recently sponsored an introduction to Mental Health First Aid workshop. BHB offers a Mental Health First Aid Course to provide staff and the public with the resources to help thos...

Dear Sir, Dennis Fagundo makes a number of interesting points and observations in The Royal Gazette of October 17. I think it may be helpful to the community to place these in context. The Bermuda Hospitals Board was informed in November last year t...

The opening of a new walk-in clinic has been delayed for almost four months after a row between planning officials and the Development Applications Board. Marico Thomas, the chief executive of Bermuda Medical Specialties Group, said Health Express Ur...