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Police are investigating after a taxi crashed into the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital last night. The incident, which took place around midnight, saw the vehicle smash through a window of the Acute Care Wing. A Bermuda Hospitals Board spokeswoman...

The demand for mental health services in Bermuda has spiralled in recent months, while the Mid-Atlantic Wellness Institute continues to face inflationary rises and government funding cuts. In 2015 711 patients were seen by the MWI Acute Care Clinic; ...

Singer-songwriter Val Sherwood has dedicated a track to promote awareness of addiction charity Focus, which continues to struggle financially. Ms Sherwood’s folk song Tricia tells the bleak story of a heroin addict she met while working for a young ...

Digicel and BTC have thrown their support behind the “Feed My Lambs Ministry”, a Bermuda and Haitian registered charity founded by Bermudian Phillip Rego. The two companies donated $4,000 to the charity’s initiative to establish a dental health clini...

Kristi Graber has an ace up her sleeve when she meets with children — a four-year-old Maltese called Mala. The toy dog has worked with the special needs therapist and teacher since she was a puppy. “I noticed that therapy dogs would come in to visit...

This weekend was very stressful for me as I received some saddening news. I unconsciously reached for the chocolates to fulfil that emotional craving; to replace the sadness with feelings of sugary sweet happiness. However, with emotional eating eve...

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...

Tawanna Wedderburn wants to put general practitioners at the centre of care as she works to improve the island’s health. As the new chief executive officer of the Bermuda Health Council, Ms Wedderburn outlined her vision for the future of healthcare...

Friends of Hospice are organising a fun event in honour of Agape House’s 25th anniversary. “Hearts, Hats and High Tea” will take place on Saturday, February 27 at Windows on the Sound at the Fairmont Southampton. The main thrust is to celebrate 25th...

Exposed live electrical wires, rodents climbing into classrooms, discarded condoms, and play structures that are “an accident waiting to happen”. These are some of the damning health and safety failings across Bermuda’s public primary schools expose...

New legislation designed to improve healthcare standards and protect patients has been passed by the House of Assembly. Jeanne Atherden, the Minister of Health, said the Medical Practitioner’s Amendment Bill would “strengthen and regularise” the gov...