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Employers who break the law in failing to cover their staff’s health insurance will soon be named by the Bermuda Health Council. Every month, hundreds of people are found to have no health insurance — and the council has only been able to reinstate h...

The cost of the hospital’s new acute care wing is about to be passed on to consumers through higher premiums, as the price of the Standard Hospital Benefit goes up by more than ten per cent this month. The Standard Health Premium (SPR) is set to rise...

Health Minister Jeanne Atherden believes nurses could be more involved when it comes to health policy and creating legislation. Ms Atherden was responding to comments by Maxine Herbert-Watson, of the Bermuda Nurses Association, during the proclamatio...

A medical seminar aims to render the Island’s health system more effective by “unifying us around the philosophy and practice of evidence based medicine”, according to chief medical officer Cheryl Peek-Ball. The symposium for healthcare professionals...

The Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit of the Department of Health is receiving reports of diarrhoea and vomiting illness in the community, above what is expected. Many of these cases have been confirmed as being caused by a virus called rotavirus. T...

A local distributor has suspended deliveries of Blue Bell ice cream after the Texas-based company announced a voluntary recall of its products, citing a possible health risk. A sampling of Blue Bell products in the United States produced several posi...

Chickenpox has shown an increase of up to one case per week for the past several weeks, a Ministry of Health spokesman has reported — more cases than 2014 overall. Nine cases have been reported to the Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit (ESU): four in...

Dr Ayesha Peets Talbot has passed the American Board of Obesity Medicine Certification Exam for obesity medicine physicians and as a result has become certified in the subspeciality of obesity medicine. This makes Dr Peets Talbot the first certified ...

Reducing the prevalence of heart disease, stroke, diabetes and cancer is a priority for Health Minister Jeanne Atherden and her team, she said yesterday. She made the announcement as part of events to mark World Health Day. This week, April 6 to 12,...

Representatives from the Caribbean Public Health Agency have been in Bermuda to help conduct data analysis from a survey with the purpose of tackling chronic diseases in Bermuda. The Ministry for Health, Seniors and the Environment initiated the STE...