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So it’s summer, which means it’s hot, humid and muggy — it’s all I hear all day. This is the season when many people lose their motivation to exercise because it feels so much harder. And for those who stick with it, walking and running paces may cha...

Chips for breakfast, a burger for lunch, Mr Chicken for dinner: for nearly 20 years, this was Royston Morton’s diet. At his heaviest he was 322lbs — the result of a massive weight gain in 2010, while in Boston for brother Winston Lottimore’s kidney t...

Bermuda Hospitals Charitable Foundation (BHCF) today announces a third $350,000 donation to the Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB) in three years for scholarships and employee training taking the total donated to over $1 million. This third donation was m...

Hospitals have joined the list of places off-limits to drones from today. The Bermuda Civil Aviation Authority made areas around the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital in Paget and the Mid-Atlantic Wellness Institute in Devonshire no-fly zones for con...

Free fresh foods are to be distributed by the Bermuda Health Council as part of a drive to boost public health, it was revealed yesterday. A spokeswoman for the BHeC said “Fresh Food Fridays” would be held around the island and would also be used as ...

Legislation to amend the Health Insurance Act 1970 was approved at the weekend. The change will allow the health minister to make any additional benefit “subject to criteria, including means test criteria, and authorise the Health Insurance Committ...

A new health and wellness company is to hold a launch party. Fuelled Bermuda Ltd, set up by former WBA middleweight boxing champion Teresa Perozzi and certified integrative nutrition health coach and author Agathe Holowatinc, will officially launch o...

The Ministry of Health has launched an investigation into a suspected case of ciguatera fish poisoning on the island. It is suspected that the case was caused by a large amberjack eaten between June 30 to July 5. The case, if confirmed, would be the ...

Charity thrift shops have joined forces to ask donors to stop dropping off items outside designated times. Suzanne DeCouto, the fundraising and communications manager for the Bermuda Red Cross, said staff often found bags of items had been raided b...

An agreement for a new hospice has been signed between Bermuda Hospitals Board and Friends of Hospice. The memorandum of understanding allows the charity to proceed with building a hospice next to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, on Berry Hill Road...

A plague of rats could spread killer diseases, the Bermuda Hospitals Board chief of medicine warned yesterday. Michael Ashton said rats could transmit serious diseases to humans — and that some could be fatal. Dr Ashton explained: “Rats are known vec...

The family of a 13-year-old schoolgirl rushed overseas after she suffered a severe bleed on her brain appealed yesterday for public help to cover their medical costs. Now the family and friends of Unaiah Ball have launched a GoFundMe page to help fun...