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Gluten is a hot topic these days. Gluten-free is appearing on food labels everywhere, making life much easier for people with coeliac disease (who avoid gluten out of medical necessity), but a little more confusing for everyone else. You could be fo...

Three years ago, Craig and Jackie Scott were determined to get fit. The couple signed up for fitness programme Beat the Couch, and changed their diet. Ten weeks later they were thrilled to find they could run 5K without stopping. “Afterward, we vowed...

Concerns about Ewart Brown’s relationship with the Lahey Clinic were raised with the United Bermuda Party Government almost 20 years ago, according to newspaper reports from the time. The Royal Gazette reported in November 1998 on a letter which had ...

It is important to know your client — and with that in mind, Massachusetts General Hospital decided to pay the island a visit this week to do exactly that. Boston’s biggest branch of Harvard Medical School, which is ranked number three among hospital...

The Lamb Foggo Urgent Care Centre is to reopen next Wednesday. The East End facility was temporarily closed last month for the installation of new vinyl flooring and work on the building. Marshall Minors, vice-president of facilities management and e...

Travellers intending to fly to Trinidad and Tobago for the upcoming carnival have been warned to protect themselves against the Zika virus, which has been detected in the Caribbean island. A person can contract Zika through a bite from an infected mo...

A spike in demand, including “far higher” levels of flu and respiratory illness, is stretching the bed capacity at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital. Problems discharging senior patients have made the situation worse and the facility is using its Gen...

New frontiers are opening in cancer research, where Bermudian doctor Sheldon Holder sees increasing hope for the future. Dr Holder, who divides his time between laboratory and clinical work through the Penn State Cancer Institute, got special recogni...

Michael Dunkley dropped in one some of the island’s students this week to help them learn about fitness and a healthy lifestyle as part of the Premier’s Youth Fitness Programme, on offer throughout public schools. Mr Dunkley was accompanied yesterday...

Chickenpox has been reported spreading around the island, according to the Ministry of Health. In a statement yesterday, a spokeswoman for the Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit confirmed that there had been an increase in reports of varicella — comm...

Bermuda’s 100 Day Challenge has begun with 27 people embarking on a weight loss programme during which participants will be hoping to shed as many as 50 pounds. Rigorous exercise and diet regimes will the key to success, and already those taking part...

The Bermy Bouncers Jump team will join overseas champions to kick off Jump Week with a display on the City Hall lawn tomorrow. Made up of students from across the island, the Bermuda jumpers are aged between seven and 16. Organised by the Bermuda Hea...