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HIV patients in Bermuda may no longer be facing a death sentence, but the stigma against the condition remains. Speaking in advance of today’s World Aids Day, Kim Ball, HIV co-ordinator at the Department of Health, said while she has found more peopl...

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...

Danielle Pacheco was 13 years old when she found out she had type one diabetes. The 31-year-old has now been living with the condition for more than 17 years and refuses to let it stop her from living her life to the fullest extent. “It’s a huge adju...

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...

Scores of men took advantage of the free health screenings at yesterday’s Men’s Health Fair. The event, hosted by Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre and the Department of Health, offered kidney function, lung function, blood pressure and blood glucose...

Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre is reminding men to take charge of their health as the island marks Movember. The charity has teamed up with Robin Hood Football Club to raise awareness of men’s health, with a particular focus on prostate and testic...

“Just remember, cancer has an uncanny way of knowing when you give in.” This is what Robert Emmett was told when he arrived in London to start treatment of his stage-four bladder cancer. The former Robin Hood Premier League player took the words of e...

No medical services will be available for sick infants or children in the Department of Health’s Hamilton, Somerset and St George’s clinics this afternoon or tomorrow. Routine preventive health and immunisation services will be available, according t...

Doctors have branded a raft of reworked legislative proposals aimed at regulating healthcare providers as “heavy handed” and say that the reform measures unfairly target their profession. The Bermuda Health Council recently published the proposed ch...