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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...

An international expert has backed up the Bermuda Government’s assertion that the island has a “low risk” of local Zika virus transmission. However, Jimmy Whitworth, Professor of International Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medic...

The Bermuda Health Council has dismissed claims that new healthcare legislation designed to ensure all service providers on the island are properly licensed is targeted against private physicians. Ricky Brathwaite, the council’s programme manager, ma...