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Health agencies are working to ensure that a specialist ear, nose and throat surgeon is brought to the island as soon as possible, according to the Government. Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, spoke out after doctors last month expressed alarm tha...

Scholarships totalling $10,000 have been awarded to three students by the Hospitals Auxiliary of Bermuda. Chelsea Basden, who is doing pre-med biology at Denison University, Ohio, received $5,000. Saraé Botelho was given $2,500 for studying science a...

The Ministry of Health is seeking supplies of a newly approved booster vaccine against Covid-19 that could ward off infectious fresh strains of the virus now responsible for waves of new cases worldwide. The updated booster could prove effective agai...

A facility to incinerate Bermuda’s medical waste could be built in St David’s, according to a planning application. The application by MediWaste proposes the erection of a new structure on industrially zoned land on Wallers Point Road in Southsid...

The Lorraine Rest Home has been formally renamed the Lorraine Nursing Home as the facility celebrated its 60th anniversary. Tinée Furbert, the Minister of Social Development and Seniors, said the facility was given a licence to provide nursing care s...

Diabetes sufferers are being urged to change their lifestyle as part of a new programme to limit the negative effects of the condition. Island Health Services has teamed up with the Family Practice Group to treat 17 patients under the Diabetes Rewind...

A new clinic treating patients with kidney disease will provide free screening to underinsured sufferers from next month. Kidney Care Bermuda has formed after the merger of two previous practices — Bermuda Home Dialysis Services and Bermuda Renal Pa...

Limited supplies of the Covid-19 vaccine are now available on the island after the manufacturer extended the shelf life of old supplies. Last night a government spokeswoman said that more than 1,000 doses of the drug had been placed in cold storage i...

About half of schoolchildren with asthma are not listed on a register of students who have the condition, a charity has estimated. Liz Boden, co-founder of Open Airways, said that pupils should not miss out on lessons or activities because of asthma ...

A government MP and an opposition senator have joined forces to offer support to the troubled residential care home Summerhaven. Anthony Richardson, Progressive Labour Party MP for Hamilton South, and Robin Tucker, the One Bermuda Alliance candidate ...