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A campaign to boost knowledge about chronic kidney disease has been launched by the Bermuda Health Council. Doctors and other healthcare workers have joined the drive to mark National Kidney Month and World Kidney Day on March 10. The Bermuda Health ...

Regulations for quarantine of Covid-19 contacts in schools have been changed, the education minister revealed yesterday. Diallo Rabain said in a letter to senior education staff that vaccinated people who tested positive for the coronavirus would hav...

The Bermuda Hospitals Charitable Foundation has thanked donors for $670,000 of support for the BHB’s Covid-19 vaccination clinic as the operation started to wind down. A spokeswoman said that the clinic, with the support of corporate and private dono...

A 50-year-old with a long history of health problems is asking for help in paying off more than $40,000 in medical expenses. Carmen Fernandes, who is unemployed and on financial assistance and receives additional help because of a disability, was sad...

Submission rates for Covid-19 antigen testing remain at only 57 per cent for students and 50 per cent for staff in public schools, the Ministry of Education has said. The ministry urged parents and staff to take up the testing to increase these figu...

At 25, Tiffany Paynter discovered yoga. For years she’d written it off as something done by privileged people with time on their hands, but friends suggested it might help her battle with depression. The breath control, the meditation ….it changed he...

The Government has spent more than $100 million to help the public and businesses weather the Covid-19 storm, the Premier said. David Burt said that, because the pandemic went on longer than expected, the cost of Covid-19 expenditure during the 2021-...

Illnesses linked to environmental conditions more than halved in 2020, health statisticians have found. A health ministry spokeswoman said the “significant decrease” in reported cases of some conditions may have been a by-product of the massive effor...

I’ll admit it. This morning my eldest had Party Rings for breakfast. Usually she’s a Cheerios or oatmeal kind of girl – maybe even an organic protein shake – but today we flew out of the door after waking up late. Breakfast was half a packet of coo...

Insurers will be given a say in the drafting of universal healthcare in Bermuda, the Senate heard yesterday. Arianna Hodgson, the junior labour, health and finance minister, was responding to queries from independent senator John Wight on the Bermuda...

Mask requirements for young schoolchildren came up for question in the Senate as the Upper House agreed to extend Covid-19 emergency health orders beyond the end of this month to March 31. Arianna Hodgson, the junior health minister, said there was “...

Bermuda Health Strategy 2022-2027 will provide the vision for a healthy Bermuda and outline the strategic reforms for our health system, reaffirming the Government's commitment to universal health coverage. It is the fundamental right of every man, w...