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Approximately 9,000 people (12 per cent) living in Bermuda have asthma. It is the number one reason children take medication whilst at school, and the number one reason they miss school. It’s also the leading reason adults miss days from work. Resp...

A helicopter rescue in pitch darkness, hundreds of miles out in stormy seas, is not the way local doctor Michael Urdang expected to finish Valentine’s Day. Just married, Dr Urdang had been grateful for a couple of days off and the chance to spend the...

A sick crew member on board an oil tanker 300 miles to the island’s east will be flown to Bermuda in the early hours of tomorrow. According to a spokesman for the Department of Marine and Ports Services, the 38-year-old male Filipino national has bee...

The Pink Cafe at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital will close at the end of the week for major refurbishment work to be completed. The café will shut on Friday and the project is expected to completed in March. “We are very excited about our refurbis...

Anyone who has donated blood after travelling to areas affected by Zika and presented symptoms of the virus has been asked to contact the Bermuda Hospitals Board Blood Donor Centre. While there have been no confirmed cases of the virus on the island...

The MRI scanner at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital has resumed service following repairs. In early January, Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB) announced that a major component of the scanner needed replacing, taking it out of service for several weeks....

Rehabilitation Day Hospital and Home Care Services at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital have been temporarily relocated. The services have been moved to the old Emergency Department on the General Wing’s ground floor while ceiling renovations take pl...

The Agape House hospice is temporarily moving for renovations, the Bermuda Hospitals Board has advised. However staff contact numbers and e-mails addresses have not changed, and the office for Friends of Hospice has not moved. Agape House moved on Mo...

A 20-year-old woman is in critical condition in hospital with serious head injuries after a single-vehicle accident last night. According to police, another 22-year-old woman has injuries that are not believed to be life-threatening and is recuperati...

A policy for dealing with urgent medical scans was only put in place at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital after a patient with a burst appendix suffered life-threatening damage to his heart and lungs owing to avoidable delays. Bermuda Hospitals Board...

Hospital authorities insisted last night that their decision to pursue a costly lawsuit against a patient to Bermuda’s highest court of appeal, where they lost this week, would not have an effect on taxpayers. The Bermuda Hospitals Board took its cas...

The Bermuda Hospitals Board has been ordered to pay estimated legal costs of $500,000 after it lost an appeal in the Privy Council against a patient who won damages for negligence suffered at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital. The board's insurers wi...