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Not just a baby has been saved, but an entire family. That was Gianluca Cacace’s awe-inspired thought after witnessing infant open-heart surgery this summer. Bermudians Gianluca, 16, and friend Liam Peniston, 17, watched the surgery as part of a volu...

The night of July 19, 2012 was very nearly the last for Lance Furbert, Bermuda’s former curator of forts, who this week met the couple who saved his life against astounding odds. On that day, holidaying with his wife Margo in the wilds of Yellowstone...

It is easy to judge fat people. The thin among us assume they sit around stuffing their faces with junk food, and that they are lazy and never exercise. According to Ayesha Peets Talbot, those preconceptions are not fair. The 34-year-old medic is the...

For brave Kandice Douglas-Young her 11th birthday at the end of this month is extra special. The youngster suffers from a rare congenital heart condition and will travel to Boston in August to find out if she will have to undergo potentially life-sav...

A new consultant cardiologist has been appointed by Bermuda Hospitals Board. Joseph Yammine came to the Island in August to provide outpatient consultations to people with heart disease and specialised cardiac care for hospitalised and emergency pati...

It is time for the community to come together once more and help a family in need says Rolfe Commissiong, a childhood friend of Garry Dill, a father of four suffering from congestive heart failure. Mr Dill, 57, needs a heart transplant, but due to hi...

The family of Garry Dill, a father of four in need of a heart transplant, say they are still in the dark despite meeting with their health insurer BF&M. Mr Dill’s wife Janet confirmed yesterday they had met with the healthcare provider and are curren...

The life of a man in need of a heart transplant hangs in the balance as confusion over his health insurance mounts. Suffering from congestive heart failure, father of four Garry Dill, 57, was still working as an electrician as of last Friday, despite...

From a young age Nurse Practitioner Myrian Balitian-Dill may have been destined to go into medicine. She always enjoyed helping people and got satisfaction in seeing them get back to good health. It didn’t hurt that she was also born into a large fa...

One of Bermuda’s first heart transplant recipients crossed a major milestone this week. Twenty years ago, on April 4,1993, Calvin Ming Jr was given a new lease on life when he became the second Bermudian to receive a new heart at the University of P...

February is Heart Month The cardiac rehabilitation programme at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital helped Peter Adhemar change his lifestyle. The head of operations at Bermuda Department of Civil Aviation, now retired from active flying, said he smok...