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Health and wellness are to be celebrated carnival style as part of an event taking place today.
The Health Promotion Office of the Department of Health will host the Celebrating Wellness: Carnival Ready Health Extravaganza in Victoria Park from 4pm ...
DATE: Sep 28, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A leading Bermudian therapist with the island’s autism charity Tomorrow’s Voices has celebrated a fresh round of academic qualifications using Bermuda research.
Jahnae Harvey, senior verbal behaviour therapist, explored how Bermuda’s culture affects ...
DATE: Sep 28, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Emergency powers brought in to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic will be withdrawn at the end of November, Kim Wilson, the health minister, said yesterday.
The minister is to outline the moves when the House of Assembly meets on Friday for the first time ...
DATE: Sep 27, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Shaun Connolly
A happy couple got more than they bargained for during Hurricane Fiona — the birth of their first child.
Kei-she Fubler and Brandon Wilson welcomed their daughter, A’riyah Justice Fubler-Wilson, into the world as the storm raged outside early yesterd...
DATE: Sep 24, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The latest class of graduates from the Right Living House programme were celebrated last week by Michael Weeks, the Minister of National Security.
Four men successfully completed the programme, located at the Co-Ed Facility in St George’s, intended t...
DATE: Sep 24, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Bermuda Hospitals Board’s hyperbaric chamber has reopened after being closed for more than two weeks.
It was announced on September 3 that the chamber, which is used to treat decompression diving accidents and some wounds, would close for two w...
DATE: Sep 24, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Stefano Ausenda
Bermuda has received a shipment of the Moderna bivalent vaccine, one of the few vaccine boosters that targets new Covid-19 variants that have higher resistance to earlier vaccines and natural immunity.
The shipment is part of a 5,500 dose shipment t...
DATE: Sep 22, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The island’s known cases of Covid-19 continued to decline this week, with 52 active cases recorded – the lowest since last December.
Six people are being treated in hospital for the illness, but none are in intensive care.
Bermuda’s confirmed figures...
DATE: Sep 22, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Bermuda Hospitals Board’s “game-changing” electronic medical record project is set to go live next month.
The PEARL project, which stands for patient electronic and administrative records, will result in every patient across King Edward VII Memo...
DATE: Sep 22, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Dozens of camps and daycares have been accredited as “sun smart” for their measures to protect young people from sunburns.
The Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre said that this year 40 camps and three daycare programmes had registered for the SunSmart ...
DATE: Sep 16, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes