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Three deaths linked to Covid-19 were reported yesterday by health officials, bringing the island’s confirmed death toll from the pandemic to 134.
Bermuda also continues to see a climbing rate of new infections, with 409 active cases – the highest num...
DATE: May 05, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A Warwick Academy student who sustained a traumatic brain injury in a car crash last year is preparing to participate in the Convex End to End on Saturday.
David Goonewardene , 17, from Paget, will be joined by his schoolmates in the walk, which mar...
DATE: May 05, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
An auction of horse statues has raised $250,000 for a charity that provides therapy programmes for people with special needs.
All 20 life-size fibreglass statues of Tilly – a miniature filly who was a fixture of the WindReach centre’s animal therapy ...
DATE: May 04, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
After a two year absence due to the Covid-19 pandemic, World Asthma Day returned to Bermuda yesterday.
Musicians from Warwick Academy expanded their lungs to play wind and brass instruments while Open Airways staff and volunteers demonstrated equipm...
DATE: May 04, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
An award-winning nurse is calling for frontline health workers to have more say in how health services operate.
Irena Ashton made the recommendation in a letter to Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, after being named Nurse of the Year.
Ms Ashton, wh...
DATE: May 03, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Increasing numbers of young people are being referred for help to battle eating disorders or have struggled with social anxiety, the Minister of Health said today.
Kim Wilson highlighted that although the Covid-19 pandemic affected children and teena...
DATE: May 03, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
An event to help people with asthma moves to a new venue in Hamilton today.
Open Airways will mark World Asthma Day at the Victoria Park bandstand today, when information and support tools will be handed out from 11.30am to 2pm.
It comes after a two-...
DATE: May 03, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
The controversial Travel Authorisation form is damaging the island’s tourism industry and must be scrapped, it has been claimed.
Michael Dunkley, the Opposition One Bermuda Alliance spokesman on health, said that the form, which has to be filled out ...
DATE: May 02, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The Lamb Foggo Urgent Care Centre will return to its normal Monday to Friday hours of 2pm to 10pm tomorrow, the Bermuda Hospitals Board announced today.
Weekday hours at the UCC were reduced in January to 6pm to 10pm due to staffing shortages.
Week...
DATE: May 02, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
A US celebrity doctor who visited Bermuda this week highlighted concerns about the excessive centralisation of decision-making in healthcare.
Drew Pinsky added that it was important for patients to be informed and to have options for health coverage....
DATE: Apr 29, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter