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The Bermuda Diabetes Association has appointed a chartered professional accountant with 30 years’ experience in public policy, infrastructure finance and consultancy as its executive director. Lori Rockhead, who began her new role on November 1, pre...

Free health screenings, healthy food samples and water will be on offer as part of a public open day being hosted by the Bermuda Diabetes Association. The charity is inviting the public to the event on November 14, World Diabetes Day, to learn more ...

Overweight people not controlling what they eat are responsible for Bermuda’s health outcomes failing to match its high expenditure on medical care, MPs heard. Kim Wilson, the health minister, told the House of Assembly on Friday that the problem was...

A clinic set up to treat patients with mental health issues and chronic conditions has helped 145 patients in the last year. The Integrated Healthcare Clinic, which runs out of the Lamb Foggo Urgent Care Centre at Southside, was established in July 2...

Diabetes sufferers are being urged to change their lifestyle as part of a new programme to limit the negative effects of the condition. Island Health Services has teamed up with the Family Practice Group to treat 17 patients under the Diabetes Rewind...

Covid-19 has helped people change the way they think about their health, according to a diabetes educator. But Sara Bosch de Noya, of the Bermuda Diabetes Association, believes the condition needs to be treated as a pandemic if it is to be properly o...

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...

A last call went out today for people to put their best foot forward for a charity walk to raise funds for the fight against diabetes. The Walk to ‘Defeet’ Diabetes, held every year, will be in a virtual format and participants were asked to walk, j...

Lifestyle choices at the heart of driving up cost, putting unsustainable pressure on the health system

A 50-year-old with a long history of health problems is asking for help in paying off more than $40,000 in medical expenses. Carmen Fernandes, who is unemployed and on financial assistance and receives additional help because of a disability, was sad...

At 22 Bruce Swan found out he had diabetes and, instead of dealing with the diagnosis, set it aside. He was in law school at the time and focused on his studies. Today, he wishes he had been more concerned about his health. Last year while walking ou...

Bermuda needs to tackle child obesity if it wants to curb a surge in demand for dialysis, experts have said. A spokesman for the Bermuda Diabetes Association explained there were about 250 people who had end-stage kidney disease, with the majority on...