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A marginal decrease in the Island’s healthcare spending has been hailed by Argus insurance, after years of concern over the rise in expenditure. Michelle Jackson, the Argus executive vice-president, said the insurer was “delighted” by the announcemen...

Althea Overbey thought she had experienced a miracle after surviving risky surgery to remove a brain tumour just a few months after her son was born in 1985. Now, 30 years later, she is convinced she has benefited from another divine intervention. Ms...

A life-saving drug used to reverse heroin overdoses can now be administered by all emergency medical technicians in Bermuda without a doctor’s approval after hospital chiefs acted on a coroner’s recommendation. Bermuda Hospitals Board has changed its...

A legal battle between Bermuda Hospitals Board and a patient who suffered an agonising wait for surgery has attracted the attention of lawyers for Britain’s national health service. The NHS Litigation Authority has applied to intervene in the case in...

A holistic wellness centre has been established to cater for mental health issues — from simple stress at work to severe depression and anxiety. Set in a calm, spa-style environment, Solstice has an open-door policy and will take on self-referrals as...

Mental Health Awareness Week was launched yesterday with the theme of dignity. Patricia Gordon-Pamplin, the acting health minister, addressed an audience at the Mid-Atlantic Wellness Institute and highlighted the need to “consider the humanity in peo...

Health spending dropped 1.7 per cent over the previous year for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2014, the Bermuda Health Council has reported. That decline coincided with a 0.7 per cent drop in the Island’s population, and an 8.5 per cent rise in he...

Bermuda’s treatment of stroke patients has improved but much more still needs to be done, according to Mark Selley of the Bermuda Stroke and Family Support Association. Mr Selley said that while they had been fighting to improve insurance coverage an...

Mark Selley was just 38 in 1991 when he suffered a stroke and was told by a doctor he would never walk again. Less than a year later, he was out of his wheelchair and dedicated to making sure a support system was in place in Bermuda for stroke patien...

More than two dozen walkers and their dogs participated as “Team Bermuda Gold” for an international walking event to raise awareness and funds for research for TTP. TTP is the acronym for Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia Purpura, a rare autoimmune blood ...