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Obesity is a problem in Bermuda, but the Department of Health hopes its new initiatives will help bring the rate down to a satisfactory level through exercise and healthy eating. The Department and the Bermuda Conference of Seventh-day Adventists org...

More than 100 people have been admitted to the Mid Atlantic Wellness Institute for depression in the last five years. With the number expected to increase, the institution yesterday announced it would begin training as part of a mental health first a...

When Selina Edwards was 26 weeks pregnant she started to suspect something was wrong when doctors wanted to try amniocentesis for the fourth time. Amniocentesis is a painful procedure where a needle is inserted into a pregnant woman’s abdomen to coll...

A “very dangerous” schizophrenic is roaming the streets just two months after he was sentenced to an indefinite period in a mental hospital for an unprovoked and brutal attack on his neighbour. Shiloh Payne has been spotted on several occasions in t...

The Attorney General and Bermuda Hospitals Board have signalled their support for a special Mental Health Court to improve the way criminals with mental problems are dealt with. However, AG Michael Scott said budget cuts may mean the court promised b...

A judge yesterday repeated long-standing calls for Bermuda to have a Mental Health Court in the wake of the Shiloh Payne case. As reported in today’s edition, Payne, a 27-year-old schizophrenic, launched a brutal and unprovoked attack on his neighbou...

A schizophrenic has been sentenced to an indefinite period in a mental hospital after stabbing his neighbour and trying to hit him with a concrete block. Supreme Court heard that the “very dangerous” Shiloh Payne launched the unprovoked attack on Ran...

The last time Marcia Scraders enrolled her special needs son Omori in nursery school in Bermuda, the placement lasted all of an hour. She arrived at the school to find the teacher chasing Omori back and forth across the room, unable to catch him. Sh...