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A new healthcare service aims to tackle dementia in Bermuda. Bermuda Alzheimer’s and Memory Services offers cognitive screening, in-home nursing and assessment services and education for patients and their families. Founders Jo-Ann Cousins-Simpson an...

Recent warm and wet weather has created a perfect breeding ground for mosquitoes and the experts at Vector Control are reminding the public to be vigilant and empty out standing water. It comes amid ongoing concerns about the mosquito-borne Zika viru...

News staff Six people in Bermuda were diagnosed with HIV last year, according to the Ministry of Health and Seniors. As the island marks HIV Awareness Month, residents are being urged to get tested and know their status. “HIV Awareness Month remind...

The Chief of Emergency Services and Hyperbaric Medicine at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital will be recognised by the Bermuda Health Foundation this month. Edward Schultz, who has worked at the hospital since 1988, will be honoured at the organisati...

The dangers of tanning and its potential to lead to addictive behaviour have been reiterated by an international expert. According to David Fisher, who spoke to The Royal Gazette as Bermuda marked Melanoma Awareness Month, research has shown that ta...

Kidney transplant funding for HIP and FutureCare patients is to increase by 50 per cent to up to $150,000 under new legislation. A health Bill has been tabled to expand coverage from June 1 so that more patients can come off dialysis, a government sp...

The possibility of conducting kidney transplants in Bermuda is being reviewed by the Ministry of Health and other stakeholders. It comes after a team of Norwegian surgeons visited the island in March and submitted a proposal that is now being assesse...

Children with severe, persistent asthma are 30 times more likely to develop chronic respiratory disease in adulthood, according to the Minister of Health. Speaking during the World Asthma Day celebrations, Jeanne Atherden stressed the importance of ...

With more than a third of Alzheimer’s cases potentially preventable, people are being urged to take their health into their own hands. According to Jo-Ann Cousins-Simpson, of The Family Practice, research has shown that exercise can cut the risk of d...

Twelve new Bermudian emergency medical technicians have been added to the island’s dwindling corps of first responders. The group made history as the first graduating cohort of the pilot programme of a partnership between Bermuda College, the Bermuda...