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The key to improving children’s health is changing the behaviour of adults, according to nurse Laura Lynn Jackson. Ms Jackson, of the Department of Health, who spoke at Hamilton Rotary Club yesterday, urged parents and other adults to play their role...

Dear Sir, Kenneth Bascome is reported as having said that God is part-Bermudian because so often we have been spared the most destructive aspects of the storms. I would not be so presumptuous as to assume the reason for our past good fortune or what...

Clients have asked, “why do we have to work our legs all the time?” While arms, chest and back are more noticeable, we should always train below the belt. Our lower bodies have the biggest muscles. Try focusing on muscles that challenge your bottom ...

Golden years can be wonderful and retirement can be liberating and adventurous. Sometimes, though, golden years come with a caveat. Today’s caveat: for active, fun-filled and fulfilling retirement, take good care of your joints. Arthritis is inflamma...

Sometimes you have to travel far from home to find your calling. That is a lesson Asha Ratteray learnt back in 2011. Growing up, she was not entirely sure which career path to pursue. She just knew it had to involve the sciences, allow her to work f...

KFC has joined forces with the Bermuda Red Cross this month to help raise money for the charity. The eatery is now offering customers $1 treat voucher booklets, each of which contain five vouchers that children can exchange for a cookie, an apple tur...

It has been a tough but incredible recovery for young Leighnae Lowe, who was 6 when doctors at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta discovered a tumour in a critical area of her brain. After an uncommon and potentially risky operation, Leighnae is flouri...

Althea Overbey thought she had experienced a miracle after surviving risky surgery to remove a brain tumour just a few months after her son was born in 1985. Now, 30 years later, she is convinced she has benefited from another divine intervention. Ms...

Most of us are busy … crazy busy. It’s not helped by the fact that “busy” isn’t cool any more. We’re realising that yes, busy often means successful, but it can also mean overstretched and less focused. If you, like me, sometimes feel like you’re sta...

A former Bermuda health worker who was struck down with Ebola early last year has been readmitted to hospital in a serious condition due to an “unusual late complication”, according to a Sky News report. Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey had seemingly...

A toddler scoops a cookie off the floor and shoves it in his mouth, lint, dog hair, ants and all. It’s a familiar scene that makes some parents cringe and others shrug philosophically. “No one has died yet,” said Susan Thomas, 40, mother of eight-ye...

A life-saving drug used to reverse heroin overdoses can now be administered by all emergency medical technicians in Bermuda without a doctor’s approval after hospital chiefs acted on a coroner’s recommendation. Bermuda Hospitals Board has changed its...