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A new machine to test for lung problems is up and running at a specialist clinic. The pulmonary plethysmograph, used to check the efficiency of the lungs, has been installed at the new Bermuda Medical Specialities Group and will cut the need for pati...

In June 2018, the Bermuda Health Council conducted a survey to capture the public’s opinion about healthcare issues and the Health Council’s role in tackling these issues. Over 550 people responded, representing varied education levels, professional ...

Health officials issued a warning after a breakout of gastrointestinal illness. The Ministry of Health said “clusters of diarrhoea and vomiting illness” had been reported in the community. The ministry said people can be taken sick by consuming conta...

A new option for diabetes sufferers to have a pancreas transplant in the US has been promoted in Bermuda. Jay Graham, an assistant professor and abdominal transplant surgeon at Montefiore Medical Centre in New York, said he was “very excited” about t...

The venue for today’s free health screenings has changed to the Victoria Street Clinic car park in Hamilton. The screenings, which were due to be held at EF Gordon Square but were relocated owing to scheduling concerns, will now take place in a shad...

Free health screenings will be held tomorrow Friday, 24th August 2018 at E.F. Gordon Square, Dundonald Street, Hamilton (on the corner of Court Street and Dundonald Street) from 4 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. The screenings will be held in the shade with relief...

Medical staff and students will be in line for training opportunities after the Bermuda Hospitals Board agreed to link up with Johns Hopkins Medicine International. The BHB announced the Maryland-based medical institute was chosen for a clinical affi...

Ciguatera fish poisoning is on the rise with more than ten cases reported between the end of June and mid-July. A spokesman said the health ministry’s Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit had received 13 reports between June 29 and July 17 — up from f...

Two wholesalers have confirmed that they have distributed no products currently under recall due to salmonella contamination in the whey powder. Pepperidge Farm in the United States voluntarily recalled more than three million packages of Goldfish c...

Bermuda could become a centre for specialist colon removal surgery, a surgeon at the Bermuda Hospitals Board has said. Fitzroy Hamilton said results in Bermuda were better than those of top European clinics that use single-incision laparoscopic surg...