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A record number of schools have received top marks in a campaign to encourage students to adopt healthier lifestyles. At this year’s Healthy Schools Awards, Education Minister Nalton Brangman revealed that 25 of the 32 schools that took part in the s...

The parents of a young boy who relies on regular blood transfusions are urging residents to become donors, and possibly save a life. Calvin Steede was diagnosed with sickle cell anaemia at birth. The nine-year-old receives monthly blood transfusions ...

Men are often reluctant to go to the doctor for fear of hearing bad news or looking weak but they need to “know their numbers” when it comes to health, a meeting heard yesterday. Rhonda Smith-Simmons, education officer for Bermuda Cancer and Health C...

The Bermuda Blood Donor Centre has launched a Summer Blood Drive to boost the hospital’s life-saving blood supplies. Less than two percent of Bermuda’s eligible population, or about 1,100 people, donate blood, and the number of young people who are d...

Catlin Group Limited has donated $1 million to the Bermuda Hospitals Charitable Trust’s (BHCT) fundraising campaign. The charity is hoping to raise $40 million to help transform King Edward VII Memorial into a world-class facility by next year. The W...

Bermuda’s health financing is a staggeringly complex arrangement — especially for a comparatively small jurisdiction. “The input we’ve had from our advisers, who have experience of different health systems around the world, is that this is more comp...

Food for Thought “Mummy …” said Chloe “ … your tummy is all wobbly.” I am not sure what was less welcome, the fact that we were having this conversation at 6.01am, or that we were having it period. “Well”, I explained (trying to summon the brain of...

Until now locals who needed an autism evaluation faced expensive and frequent travel overseas, stress, and long waits for results. All this might be over, or at least greatly reduced, thanks to the creation of a new on-Island autism diagnostic team....

A portion of the new build at King Edward VII Memorial was yesterday unveiled to the public. Scaffolding and green debris netting at the northern end of the new acute wing was removed at the two highest stories. Views of the new build can be seen fro...

Hospital officials seeking to head off soaring health costs report “mixed success” in getting long-term elderly patients taken home — often because their families can’t afford to look after them. “The problem is, and has been for as long as I can rem...