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A pain in your garden could prove pleasing to your palate. This season’s number one pest Olata lacta the milk snail, came to Bermuda in the 1920s. The mollusc was imported to use as escargot and somehow either escaped or was thrown into the wild. Gov...

Import cannibal snails that’s the call from Gillian Hollis, owner of Harrington Hill farm, in Smith’s. “Everybody is having such a bad snail problem this year,” she said. Mrs Hollis and her husband Robert operate a commercial plant nursery and are ag...

April 21, 2011 Dear Sir, I find it ironic that ‘sustainability’ is being used as an argument for the proposed National Health Plan. According to the Oxford dictionary ‘sustainable’ is defined as, “able to be maintained at a certain rate or level”, bu...

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Small doses of aspirin can lower the risk of heart attacks in people who never had heart disease, but the blood-thinning drug doesn’t appear to cut the chances of strokes or dying from the disease, according to a study. An...

Bermuda’s air ambulance has asked Bermuda Hospitals Board to put right comments it says imply it’s unsafe or incompetent. Bermuda Air Medivac has called in Phoenix Law Chambers in response to BHB’s assertion it needs international certification to be...

Dear Dr Gott: A columnist in my local paper claimed that you had endorsed Vicks VapoRub for treatment of nail fungus. She thought that the thymol found in the petroleum jelly was the answer. Several months ago, I tried Vicks on my minor case of nail ...

Bermuda could bring down the cost of health care by employing more experts on Island, an overseas specialist said. Jose Quesada, who is a director at the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, was invited by BF&M to speak to local ...

A public meeting on the National Health Plan has been moved back two weeks. But the Ministry of Health urged the public to continue giving feedback on a hotline specifically created to discuss issues surrounding health care on the Island. The public ...