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A new option for diabetes sufferers to have a pancreas transplant in the US has been promoted in Bermuda. Jay Graham, an assistant professor and abdominal transplant surgeon at Montefiore Medical Centre in New York, said he was “very excited” about t...

Schoolchildren with asthma should start using their inhalers before the start of the new school term, a charity has warned. Open Airways cofounder Liz Boden said exposure to mould and viruses in schools was responsible for a sharp rise in asthma duri...

A new addition to Bermuda Hospitals Board’s cancer care staff will bring decades of experience to Bermuda. Christopher Price was named as the new consultant medical oncologist by BHB this afternoon. The addition of Dr Price brings the number of ful...

Percy H. Caines III rode the length of Bermuda on Saturday to raise awareness for prostate cancer. The prostate cancer survivor and founder of charity Men Listen Up was joined by about 20 other motorcyclist on his trip from Dockyard to Clearwater Be...

Bermuda could become a centre for specialist colon removal surgery, a surgeon at the Bermuda Hospitals Board has said. Fitzroy Hamilton said results in Bermuda were better than those of top European clinics that use single-incision laparoscopic surg...

A former top runner has got off the starting blocks again to raise cash for a woman with cancer who backed him when he competed as an athlete. Jamal Hart said he hoped through his events company, One Love Productions, to give Maria Caisey the same su...

Percy H. Caines III’s grand ambition is to hop on a motorbike and travel the world raising cancer awareness. It’s not something he decided on a whim. The 59-year-old learnt he had prostate cancer in 2016. He believes annual check-ups are what saved h...

Food poisoning caused by fish infected with a toxin is on the rise, an ocean environmentalist warned yesterday. Chris Flook said cases of ciguatera, which is triggered by the consumption of contaminated fish, had increased in Bermuda. He added that...

The greatest challenge to dementia caregivers can sometimes be the families of their patients. Many go through a period of denial, confused by the ups and downs of the disease. “They think mom is going to be okay,” said Yana Swainson of Bermuda In Ho...

An asthma expert reminded the public to take time to think about their breathing — and what they are breathing. Liz Boden, co-founder of asthma charity Open Airways, said: “If you just look at the posture of people and you look at their breathing, th...

A two-day international medical summit featuring world-class specialists started at the Fairmont Southampton today. Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, met with some of the leading cancer doctors participating in the Pink and Teal Conference on Breas...

Former minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin revealed she had recently had a cancer scare to the House of Assembly yesterday. But the One Bermuda Alliance backbencher said she was “fine” in the wake of surgery and precautionary chemotherapy and radiation ...