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The island’s confirmed Covid-19 cases are in a slow two-week decline, with 122 active cases reported by health officials this afternoon. Six hospital patients are being treated for coronavirus and none are in intensive care. Kim Wilson, the Minister ...

A charity that provides riding lessons to people with special needs will be able to expand the programme following the arrival of three new therapy ponies. The trio – Dash, Mosaic, and Penny – will increase the programme’s capacity by 35 per cent. Sa...

Rampant drug and alcohol abuse are “strong contributors” to many of the island’s social ills, the head of a leading addiction service has warned. But the agencies that tackle addiction are “understaffed, under-resourced, underfunded”, warned Leslie G...

A hyperbaric chamber used after diving accidents and for some wound care patients will close tomorrow for more than two weeks. The Bermuda Hospitals Board announced that the equipment will be available again on September 19. A spokeswoman explained: ...

Health agencies are working to ensure that a specialist ear, nose and throat surgeon is brought to the island as soon as possible, according to the Government. Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, spoke out after doctors last month expressed alarm tha...

Scholarships totalling $10,000 have been awarded to three students by the Hospitals Auxiliary of Bermuda. Chelsea Basden, who is doing pre-med biology at Denison University, Ohio, received $5,000. Saraé Botelho was given $2,500 for studying science a...

The Ministry of Health is seeking supplies of a newly approved booster vaccine against Covid-19 that could ward off infectious fresh strains of the virus now responsible for waves of new cases worldwide. The updated booster could prove effective agai...

A facility to incinerate Bermuda’s medical waste could be built in St David’s, according to a planning application. The application by MediWaste proposes the erection of a new structure on industrially zoned land on Wallers Point Road in Southsid...

The Lorraine Rest Home has been formally renamed the Lorraine Nursing Home as the facility celebrated its 60th anniversary. Tinée Furbert, the Minister of Social Development and Seniors, said the facility was given a licence to provide nursing care s...

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...