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Bermuda Hospitals Board’s annual report for 2012 shows how managers battled to improve quality in tough economic conditions, according to chairman Peter Everson. The document, delayed after the Auditor-General called for a review into its financial s...

A significant increase in rates of diarrhoea and vomiting illness has prompted the Ministry of Health to issue a high-level warning. The Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit raised the alert because the number of cases of gastroenteritis is unusually ...

The Bermuda Health Council helped to recover $700,000 in health insurance premiums in the fiscal year 2015 to 16. Health minister Jeanne Atherden also said the organisation’s efforts — in collaborating with insurers and educating employers on their o...

The mother of a severely autistic boy has called for the introduction of a Bermuda Government-run special needs school. Marcia Scraders’s ten-year-old son Omori has pervasive developmental disorder, which is characterised by difficulties in behaviour...

Sometimes I hate that I’m addicted to Facebook. I am embarrassed to say how many times that I check it per day; my phone’s battery shows that Facebook takes up 22 per cent of its usage. I’m addicted to Facebook not only because of the information i...

Legislation for monitoring of health providers and the importation of “high risk” medical technology has been deferred for consultation. The Bermuda Health Council Amendment Act, which was met with concern from the Opposition as well as some local do...

Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre broke ground on a new Radiation Therapy Treatment facility this morning at its Point Finger Road headquarters. The equipment will be suitable for the treatment of more than 90 per cent of cancer patients who require r...

Travelling to high altitudes can cause an altitude-related illness. Acute mountain sickness, accumulation of fluid in the lungs and swelling of the brain are potential problems. Determining if you will be affected in advance, is impossible. Being phy...

In last week’s column, heart rhythm conditions were defined and categorised into fast versus slow arrhythmias, and those originating in the upper heart chambers versus the lower. This week, diagnosis and management of cardiac rhythm abnormalities wi...

Young mother Kamala Smith died yesterday morning at the age of 33 after a five-year battle with cancer. Mrs Smith, the wife of footballer Nakia Smith, had leiomyosarcoma — a cancer of the smooth muscle and connective tissues — diagnosed in September ...

Bermuda Healthcare Services is doubling its sponsorship of Pembroke Hamilton Club. Former Premier Ewart Brown, the executive chairman of BHCS, said the club would receive $20,000 instead of the $10,000 donated last year. “For seven years, it has been...

The Ministry of Health and Seniors has warned of an illness which has increased over the last two weeks. The infection is causing diarrhoea and vomiting and the ministry has now issued a ‘medium alert’. And the Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit with...