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Contentious legislation aimed at regulating private healthcare providers and the equipment they use is due to be retabled in Parliament in November but some doctors fear they still won’t be happy with the reworked Bill. The Royal Gazette understands ...

Bermuda Hospitals Board has announced there will be no increase in fees for the island’s hospitals for the year 2016/17. The arrangement is not without challenges, a statement said this afternoon: increasing numbers of patients are turning up both Ki...

Kiandra Simons had been faced with uncertainty about how she would pay her tuition fees throughout her medical studies. The 25-year-old doctor has now been awarded the Margaret and Robert Harvey Medical Scholarship, which will help pay off her studen...

A primary school student has been infected with viral meningitis and is receiving medical care in Boston. The student, who attends Bermuda High School, has not been named and this newspaper has been given no further information as to the severity of...

Friends, family and colleagues of a woman with thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura — a rare blood disorder — put on their walking shoes on Saturday to raise money to fight the condition. The walkers gathered at the Botanical Gardens at 8am and walked...

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...