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An annual cancer fundraising event will take place in virtual form this evening. The 2020 Relay for Life, which supports the Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre, will start at 6pm “island wide” with participants to register and join in from their homes,...

A staff member at a cancer charity has gone into self-quarantine in the wake of ignoring Covid-19 social-distancing rules for a group photograph on a beach after they were reopened last weekend. Lynne Woolridge, the chief executive of the Bermuda Can...

The asthma charity of Bermuda was forced to cancel its public demonstration for World Asthma Day today for public safety. But Tracy Nash, the director of asthma education at Open Airways, said that it was still important for people with asthma to tak...

School pupils were among those who showed off their wackiest socks in aid of an island autism support charity yesterday. Tomorrow’s Voices held the Autism Rocks Socks Day Home Edition event to help raise funds. Stacy Hill, the funding and developmen...

Relatives of cancer patients in the terminal stages of the disease can request an exemption letter from cancer charity Pals so they can say goodbye to loved ones in person. Dr Sharon Alikhani, the Pals medical director, said: “If patients are in the ...

Asthmatics should take extra precautions over the Covid-19 pandemic, a charity said yesterday. Liz Boden, the president of asthma group Open Airways, said people with the condition should use their preventer inhalers twice a day to keep it under cont...

Diabetics will still get vital medicines even with a ban on flights and most ships because of the coronavirus pandemic. Debbie Jones, chairwoman of the Bermuda Diabetes Association, said the charity had also set up tents outside its headquarters in B...

Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre has restricted services and delayed appointments as a result of the Covid-19 crisis. Lynne Woolridge, the CEO of the charity, said: “Our cancer patients are vulnerable to Covid-19. For this reason, we are committing t...

A US organisation dedicated to fighting cancer is to visit Bermuda to boost a fundraiser to battle the disease. The American Cancer Society will send members of their Global Relay for Life team to Bermuda this week to support the Bermuda Cancer and H...

A chief executive “mercilessly fired” from a key role at the Bermuda Health Council has been appointed to a top job at the island’s psychiatric hospital. Tawanna Wedderburn will become clinical director of mental health services at the Mid-Atlantic W...

Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre received an $11,500 boost thanks to a Birdies For Bermuda sponsorship scheme. Goslings International, an arm of the rum firm, donated $500 for every birdie scored by a Bermudian at the PGA Tour Bermuda Championship at...

A free health screening for men was held in Hamilton today. The Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre’s 2019 Men’s Health Screening offered tests for blood glucose, blood pressure, and kidney and skin analysis. Doctors and nutritionists were also on han...