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Diabetes: A disease that’s largely preventable

With the start of Diabetes Awareness Month today, the Ministry of Health and Seniors is undertaking an Island-wide survey to determine how many people have, or are at risk of, developing diabetes and other chronic diseases. The announcement comes fro...
Nov 01, 2013
Health

How to win the battle against diabetes

Patti Rose Smith was shocked and frightened when she was diagnosed with diabetes during a routine blood test. Now, 18 months and 63lbs later, she says she has never felt better. “When they tell you, immediately you go into shock,” she said. “You thin...
Nov 01, 2013
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We must modernise, says BHB boss

The Bermuda Hospitals Board is working to right the ship despite significant financial challenges, according to chairman Jonathan Brewin. Meanwhile, BHB also acknowledged they are likely to be in debt by the end of the fiscal year despite a series of...
Nov 01, 2013
Health

UCC was no longer ‘financially viable’

Minister for Health Patricia Gordon-Pamplin has said that the impact on the community was at the forefront of the thinking surrounding the closing of the Lamb Foggo Urgent Care Centre. However, while the need to provide a facility for the population ...
Nov 01, 2013
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Healthy lifestyle can beat diabetes

Education and awareness are the keys to eradicating diabetes, according to Community and Cultural Affairs Minister Wayne Scott. Proclaiming November as Diabetes Awareness Month yesterday, the Minister said: “The prevalence of diabetes in our commun...
Nov 01, 2013
Health

Hospital subsidiary to be shut down by end of year

A controversial subsidiary of the Bermuda Hospitals Board should be wound up by the end of the year, according to BHB chairman Jonathan Brewin. Healthcare Partners Limited (HPL) was incorporated in 2008 to go into business with private partners as a ...
Oct 31, 2013
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Shot in the arm

More than 1,300 Islanders took advantage of a $10 “drive-through” flu shot from the Department of Health. The Flu Express travelled to St George’s, Warwick, Sandys and Hamilton earlier this month to give people aged ten and above a convenient way to ...
Oct 30, 2013
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Firefighters in the pink over colleague’s recovery

Bermuda’s firefighters are in the pink after deciding on an eye-catching change of uniform. The rugged men of the Bermuda Fire and Rescue Service, tasked with the difficult, dangerous and often dirty job of putting out fires, usually wear drab, pract...
Oct 30, 2013
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Health bosses refuse to tell grieving mom why her son died

The Department of Health has apologised to grieving mother Lynn Spencer for taking more than a year to complete a postmortem drug test on her late son. But it has failed to explain why the Government Lab has taken so long to analyse blood, urine and ...
Oct 30, 2013
Health

BHB seeks retail pharmacy operator for new acute care wing

A vendor is being sought to operate a retail pharmacy in the new acute care wing of the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital. The retail pharmacy will be for outpatients and the community, with Bermuda Hospitals Board’s Pharmacy Department continuing to...
Oct 29, 2013

In life, you don’t get instant replay

Over the weekend the World Series in baseball was going on. Perhaps some of you saw it. There was one particular play at third base in which the third baseman appeared to have obstructed the base runner trying to get to home plate. The umpire made th...
Oct 29, 2013

Happy ending syndrome

Autumn: the season of colourful, falling leaves. Growing up in Bermuda, this was merely a concept from picture books. The Ponciana in our back yard shed it’s greenery midwinter, but hardly created the effect of rustling piles to jump and frolic in. ...
Oct 29, 2013
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