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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...

A veteran midwife who is working to improve midwifery standards around the world made a brief visit to give Bermuda the benefit of her extensive knowledge. UmmSalaamah (Sondra) Abdullah is the director of Birthing Project USA one of the only national...

A surgical mishap that inadvertently destroyed a Southampton man’s tumour has been hailed as a “medical miracle”. Reginald Raynor, 59, was on the operating table at a US hospital when certain equipment failed. Doctors later discovered the faulty proc...