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Participants for next week’s eagerly anticipated dementia caregiver’s course have been urged to register this coming Monday. “Registration is set for 2pm to 7pm at the Centre on Philanthropy,” said Carol Everson, a case worker for the Bermuda Legion....

Ewart Brown, the former premier, has alleged unfair treatment over impending new charges for diagnostic imaging. In a statement sent out today, Dr Brown accused the Government of producing “a step to cripple our clinics” after “years of misdirected e...

Government healthcare premiums are set for a modest drop for “the first time in many years”, health minister Jeanne Atherden has announced. Opening Public Health Week yesterday, Ms Atherden said that the decline in premiums, just over $4, would come ...

Bill Shields has been appointed chief financial officer of the Bermuda Hospitals Board after “an extensive local and international recruitment process”, BHB announced today. Mr Shields’ designation comes at a time of “major challenges” for BHB to rei...

An array of bonuses paid by the Bermuda Hospitals Board has been revealed in the House of Assembly for the years 2015 and 2016. The figures included a payout in 2015 of $571,311 to a radiologist, according to Jeanne Atherden, the Minister of Health a...

It is important to know your client — and with that in mind, Massachusetts General Hospital decided to pay the island a visit this week to do exactly that. Boston’s biggest branch of Harvard Medical School, which is ranked number three among hospital...

New frontiers are opening in cancer research, where Bermudian doctor Sheldon Holder sees increasing hope for the future. Dr Holder, who divides his time between laboratory and clinical work through the Penn State Cancer Institute, got special recogni...

The illness contracted by a local family that ate freshly caught fish earlier this month suggests ciguatera poisoning, although the tests are still under way. “If confirmed, this is a rare occurrence in Bermuda,” a spokeswoman for the Department of E...

Several cases of foodborne illness from local fish, suspected to be caused by the ciguatera toxin, are under investigation through the Department of Fisheries. For Richalene Knights and her family, early symptoms mimicked food poisoning — then intens...

A workforce strategy for Bermuda’s medical future is to be drawn up by early next summer as healthcare stakeholders prepare for a changing population. “We’re at the beginning of assessing the community’s human resources needs for health,” said Cheryl...