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Health visitors, nutritionists, dietitians and members of the hospital’s maternal and child team took part in a breastfeeding counselling course this month. The training, hosted by the health ministry, is a prerequisite for accreditation of King Edw...

A support group for those affected by heart problems will cease operations after almost two decades. In a final gesture of goodwill, the Cardiac Resource Group donated more than $3,000 of its funds to the Bermuda Hospitals Charitable Trust, the Agape...

A defence lawyer has expressed disappointment after jurors convicted his client of a frenzied knife attack despite hearing two expert psychiatric opinions stating that he was legally insane at the time of the crime. Saul Dismont believes Alan Robinso...

So this one is all about saving money, which the LH thinks is hysterical. Finances have never been my strong point. Most of my student debt was due to inappropriate outfits, ‘real food’ and cocktails. The real food I can justify (brain food!) the o...

A motoryclist is in hopsital tonight after colliding with a car on Harbour Road. Police were called at 5.34pm this evening to the incident, which occurred near the junction with Chapel Road in Paget. The male rider of the cycle was transported to Kin...

Vehicles will have no throughway at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital site on Saturday. Bermuda Hospitals Board says anyone needing to attend the Acute Care Wing should enter on Point Finger Road and access parking from that side. Those needing t...

When I first arrived on the island, occasionally we’d lose pressure or run out of water. My husband and his grandfather would have to prime the pump. They would have to keep pouring water down the pipe until the pipes were filled with water. Somet...

Paula McQueen’s talk is called The Allergic Child. If you’re a parent with concerns, it’s one you won’t want to miss. The UK specialist will share “recent developments in paediatric food allergy” at a free presentation by asthma charity Open Airways ...

This year’s Organ Donation Awareness Week will run from April 25 to 29, under the theme “Have the Conversation”. The campaign, put forward by the Bermuda Organ Donor Association and Bermuda Hospitals Board, will feature three public awareness events...

Youngsters will learn the importance of healthy eating and physical activity tomorrow, as part of the fourth annual “Healthy Al, Healthy Me” celebration. The Government initiative will involve about 118 students from five schools around the island: ...

It sometimes happens that heart valves don’t close properly. In theory, they’re supposed to direct blood flow forward but when they can’t close, circulating blood mass splashes backward. It’s a condition called “valve insufficiency or regurgitation”...

“Praise God from whom all blessings flow” — that was the thought that crossed my mind as I was discharged from King Edward VII Memorial Hospital last Friday. Circumstances however, dictated that I had to return. I spent another five days as a patient...