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Ciguatera, an elusive food poisoning carried by fish, has been confirmed in 16 cases from November 22 to December 20, according to the Ministry of Health and Seniors. A further three people fell ill with ciguatera in January 2016 by eating portions o...

When Kandra Dears says she is a psychosexual therapist, not everyone gets it. Last week, a guy called expecting she would hook him up with a prostitute. Rather than slam the phone down, she stayed on the line. “I felt he had to be asking for a reaso...

A series of free health screenings are being offered by the Bermuda Hospitals Board in recognition of Diabetes and Chronic Lung Disease Awareness Month. The Diabetes Respiratory Endocrine and Metabolism (DREAM) Centre, which provides diabetes, asthma...

Protesters gathered outside the Summerhaven assisted living facility yesterday, in a fresh round of criticism over alleged mismanagement. “This is the first time residents have come together like this, and I congratulate them for it,” said part-time ...

Some 20 clients, staff members and supporters of the Salvation Army marched proudly through the streets of Hamilton yesterday morning in the name of addiction recovery. The walk was one of several events being staged during the month of September wh...

Contentious legislation aimed at regulating private healthcare providers and the equipment they use is due to be retabled in Parliament in November but some doctors fear they still won’t be happy with the reworked Bill. The Royal Gazette understands ...

There has been a lot of coverage in the media lately about radiation exposure from medical imaging and it’s important to sort out fact from fiction.People are rightly concerned whether radiation from mammograms, bone density tests, computed tomograph...

Cupping is in the news these days. Many watched Olympians battle it out in Brazil with large red or purple circles on their skin. So you may be asking, “What’s this new thing called cupping?” Let me begin by saying that it’s not “new” nor is it just ...

The Bermuda Red Cross is offering an exciting new way to learn CPR and First Aid with the introduction of a video simulation game that depicts real life emergency situations. The game, which teaches the theory portion of the training, is set in a vir...

At just 2 years old, Dane Conrads has endured more health struggles than some people will face in a lifetime. One week after he was born, the youngster — son of former Saltus Grammar School student A.J. Conrads — caught a virus which shut down his l...

Marcus Pimentel’s reference letters all carried the same message: passionate and talented with “superior intellectual ability”. Despite that, he struggled to maintain his focus in subjects that he had little interest in. At 5, he learnt he had attent...

The Bermuda Blood Donor Centre is urgently asking people with the blood type O negative to donate. “Levels of O negative blood are low. Individuals with this blood type are quite rare, and so we are asking anyone who is O negative to help save live...