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A spontaneous decision to quietly protest by hanging bras outside of the Cabinet building has been well received, organisers have said. The demonstration against legislation that would bring in new clinical guidelines for the mammogram breast cancer ...

The Ministry of Health, Seniors and Environment is observing HIV awareness month with additional free HIV tests. A government spokesman said the ministry will be promoting the vision of the joint United Nations programme on HIV and Aids (UNAids) of “...

The Argus Group has announced that, effective June 1, it will remove annual and lifetime maximum restrictions on its coverage of overseas major medical treatments and also eliminate exemptions regarding pre-existing conditions from overseas medical c...

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...