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"Brain tumour survivor group holds Fun Day, 5K walk tomorrow"

A new support group for brain tumour survivors will stage its first community awareness event on Saturday with a five kilometre walk and fun day at Southampton Rangers. Shahidah Abdur-Rahim, who founded the Bermuda Brain Tumour Support group, is a su...
Apr 13, 2012
Opinion Writer

"Supercharge your kids with Quinoa"

Well that’s it. We are going to have to ban religion in the interest of good health. Spiritually beneficial it may be, but what about your waistline? We barely recovered from Christmas and then along came Easter. Chocolate bunnies, chocolate eggs, ho...
Apr 13, 2012
Health

"Public invited to a health fair on Friday"

The Orange Valley Centre is inviting the public to take part in its Move More Health Fair, scheduled to take place on Friday. The fair, organised under the Ministry of Health, will include participation by Bermuda Cancer and Health, the Bermuda Diabe...
Apr 11, 2012
Health

"BHB gets top accreditation"

The Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB) has been “Accredited with Exemplary Standing” under Canada’s newly introduced accreditation decision levels, the highest possible level of accreditation. The new decision levels came into effect on January 1, based o...
Apr 10, 2012

"Checking for early indicators of pancreatic cancer"

Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest forms of the disease. In Bermuda it is listed as the fourth most common cancer death. Statistics from the Bermuda Hospitals Board show 6.1 percent of cancer deaths in 2009 were from pancreatic cancer. The mai...
Apr 10, 2012
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"My right hand is so swollen that I can hardly close it"

Wayne Dill’s journal about his participation in the Kota Kinabalu Challenge in Borneo continues here where Mr Dill sets out on the hard trek to Laban Rata, part of the way up Mount Kinabalu, the largest mountain in south east Asia. He took part in th...
Apr 10, 2012
Opinion Writer

"A garbage collector is someone to be"

There are a couple of things on my mind right now — not pleasant things. One is an adage and the other is something my pastor told me a long time ago, when I was on his staff as minister of children for a large, multi-staffed suburban church in Sacra...
Apr 10, 2012
Opinion Writer

"The stick or the carrot, what drives you?"

I’m going to start with a seemingly random question. Right now, write down the top five reasons why you chose the bank you bank with... and, no, this is not one of those market research surveys. If you don’t use a bank, instead write down the top fi...
Apr 10, 2012
Health

"BHB gets top accreditation"

Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB) today announced that, under Accreditation Canada's newly introduced accreditation decision levels, it has been awarded “Accredited with Exemplary Standing” based on the results of its 2011 survey. The new decision leve...
Apr 09, 2012
Health

"Generous readers donate $37,501 for Mrs O’s care"

Readers of The Royal Gazette have stumped up more than $37,000 to help pay for care for a 98-year-old widow who was ruled ineligible for state financial aid. The plight of “Mrs O”, who has dementia and diabetes and was living alone in her rundown fam...
Apr 09, 2012
Health

"Somerset Health Clinic closes for repairs"

The Somerset Health Clinic at Mangrove Bay will be closed as of today until further notice while it undergoes maintenance and repair work, Government advised last night. The Somerset Clinic sessions will be relocated as follows: The Child Health Clin...
Apr 05, 2012
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