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A local charity will be hosting a series of events to mark World Alzheimer’s Day and Dementia Awareness Week 2016. Action on Alzheimers and Dementia is organising a film screening, art show, wine-tasting fundraiser and education sessions for familie...

The Bermuda Red Cross is offering an exciting new way to learn CPR and First Aid with the introduction of a video simulation game that depicts real life emergency situations. The game, which teaches the theory portion of the training, is set in a vir...

Men’s health and their role in the community will be at the forefront of the annual Celebrating Wellness health promotion. The event, put on by the Department of Health, has something to offer for everyone but this year’s focus will be on the theme ...

Leave your desk and join town crier Ed Christopher for a dance walk through the City of Hamilton. The event, put on by the Department of Health, will be back by popular demand next Wednesday and organisers are hopeful that the second instalment will...

The Lamb Foggo Urgent Care Centre in St David’s will be closed this weekend, the Bermuda Hospitals Board announced last night. The temporary closure has been caused because the centre was unable to cover an “unplanned absence of the emergency physic...

At just 2 years old, Dane Conrads has endured more health struggles than some people will face in a lifetime. One week after he was born, the youngster — son of former Saltus Grammar School student A.J. Conrads — caught a virus which shut down his l...

Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre will benefit from a half-a-million-dollar donation from two local companies as it prepares for the installation of new radiation therapy equipment. BF&M Limited and the Argus Group are each giving $250,000 to support ...

The island’s supplies of OxyNorm, a powerful painkiller used by patients with conditions ranging from cancer to severe migraines, have run short. As an opioid, the pharmaceutical is a controlled drug and therefore requires special clearance to be imp...

A health watchdog has warned that checks being carried out on “high risk” medical equipment in Bermuda are inadequate and do not guarantee public safety. Ricky Brathwaite, programme manager for health economics at Bermuda Health Council, likened a pr...

A fourth case of travel-related Zika has been confirmed in Bermuda by the Ministry of Health and Seniors. The virus has been brought back to the island by someone who recently travelled to a Zika-affected country. The announcement stressed that so fa...