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A new education campaign designed to boost knowledge about asthma was sparked by the tragic death of a young boy in Britain. Open Airways, an island asthma charity, is offering the Support Children’s Health-Asthma online course. The George Coller M...

Health minister Kim Wilson urged people to get tested for HIV as she marked World Aids Day. Ms Wilson took part in a ceremony commemorating the day on the steps of the City Hall. She said: “This year marks the 30th anniversary of the first World Aids...

The Department of Health today issued the following update on the E. coli outbreak in the US and Canada associated with romaine lettuce. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), state and lo...

Michelle Freeman calls her son, Iziah, a little warrior. Iziah has battled health issues: acid reflux, a milk protein allergy, breathing problems, severe sleep apnoea, and poor growth, for all of his eight months. “He’s a little fighter,” said Mrs F...

A three-pronged threat from chronic health problems and an ageing population could lead to a leap in the number of Alzheimer’s disease sufferers, a British expert warned yesterday. Tim Forester-Morgan said diabetes, heart disease and an ageing popula...

Keil Gunther said little to her daughters about her breast cancer as she battled through the disease six years ago. She thought it was too big a topic for six-year-old Katie, but particularly for Quinn, who was then 3. So, she was surprised when, thr...

Black Bermudians with cancer symptoms are more at risk of death because they put off seeking medical advice, a leading British doctor has said. Jonathan Makanjuola, a specialist in urinary tract diseases, explained: “In my experience, people from Afr...

The wife of Bermuda’s top police officer is backing an effort to raise awareness about breast cancer. Deborah Corbishley, spouse of Stephen Corbishley, the Commissioner of Police, said that she wholeheartedly supported a drive being launched by the ...

Bermuda missed the chance to head off an obesity and diabetes epidemic decades ago, a former government head of physical education has claimed. John Moreby, who worked with the Department of Education for more than 20 years before he retired in 1995,...

A nursing home assistant attacked a female patient with dementia and gave her a black eye, a court heard. Barbara King Bean, 53, was caught after the patient was taken to hospital with a swollen eye. Magistrates’ Court was told that the elderly woman...

A doctor from one of the world’s leading universities has discovered a gene mutation in a Bermudian mother and daughter that could help to find a cure for a potential killer disease. The two women both suffer from lupus, which attacks the immune syst...

Walk-in breast health checks will be available at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital today as part of breast cancer awareness month. The Bermuda Hospitals Board said that new and returning patients who had not had a mammogram already this year wer...