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Kandice Young passed away on Saturday evening at the age of 14, having battled serious medical conditions all her life. Her mother, Derika, paid tribute to a “wonderful loving child” who made friends wherever she went. “Everybody took to Kandice; he...

A 14-year-old girl who has suffered from a life-threatening heart problem since birth has to return to the United States for urgent tests, her mother said yesterday. Now the family have launched an appeal for public help to raise $10,000 to help sing...

A man who sued a doctor for $300,000 over a delayed diagnosis has been awarded $5,000 for pain and suffering by the courts. According to an Ex Tempore Judgment by Chief Justice Ian Kawaley, Raynol Todd brought an action against Annamalie Chelvam over...

Demand for the services of chiropractors is on the rise in Bermuda with “text neck” and slipped discs becoming more and more prevalent. This is according to Reid Robinson of Inside Out Wellness Centre which recently hired a new doctor of chiropracti...

A primary school student has been infected with viral meningitis and is receiving medical care in Boston. The student, who attends Bermuda High School, has not been named and this newspaper has been given no further information as to the severity of...

Randy Edwards has been there for his daughter, Gayneté Edwards, through thick and thin. He helped her through surgery at 13. And he found her sponsorship for the Miss Teen Bermuda Pageant — and cheered when she won the crown. “Since the day she was b...

It has been two years since the prospect was raised for Luke Caines, prematurely born and severely disabled, to have a life outside of hospital. Doctors believed that Mr Caines, who is quadriplegic as a result of cerebral palsy, would not even surviv...

Tene Dowling never pictured herself as an achiever. She was a “problem child” who frequently got into fights and refused to do assigned classwork. Doctors diagnosed attention deficit hyperactivity disorder when she was 6, but the experience had alrea...

Healthcare in Bermuda has historically focused on curing patients and treating problems once they have happened. However, with changing eating habits and a fast-paced society setting the stage for chronic conditions, medical practitioners at the Berm...

Age Concern has teamed up with a local physician to help seniors with medical expenses. JJ Soares, who runs Hamilton Medical Centre, is offering free consultations to uninsured or underinsured seniors referred to him by the charity. “We’ve believed f...

A victim in one of two shootings on Friday has been flown off Island for medical treatment. The 20-year-old from Pembroke was reportedly shot on Friday morning near the junction of North Shore Road and Overview Hill. The police have said that he had...

After more than 200 years since it was first described, and more than 150 years since its association with leg clots was recognised, the pulmonary embolism remains one of the most underdiagnosed and potentially preventable causes of death. It occurs...