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A charity cruise for a cancer charity is to set sail on Sunday. VaVa Entertainment has organised the Pink Party Cruise to benefit cancer charity Pals. The event was created in honour of Reneé M Carter, a cancer charity founder, and Eddie Minors, who...

After battling her way through ovarian cancer, Nancy Wainwright has a message for women over 50: monitor your body for change, no matter how subtle. At 55, she started suffering from abdominal pain, acid reflux, bloating and low energy. Doctors ran a...

A single mother chasing her dream career in medicine has been elated to be among the winners of the Dr Barbara Ball Public Health Scholarships this year. Elinor Lucas Quarterly said her study of diabetes, a serious metabolic illness, was about more t...

A plant nursery had sold seeds and seedlings that could be contaminated with a parasitic vine. Aberfeldy Nurseries said it had sold 44 packets of imported seeds, which may contain the dodder parasite, and six customers had been accounted for. Julie G...

Growing up with a destructively alcoholic parent is fodder for humour as well as shock in Kirkland Hamill’s Bermudian-American memoir. But Mr Hamill’s deeper message, to be shared on Wednesday in a live webinar about his just-published book, is: you’...

Colon cancer is the third most common cancer and the fourth most common cause of cancer-related death worldwide. It is a complex disease linked with both genetic and lifestyle factors. To minimise suffering and death, most countries have screening pr...

A scheme to help tackle chronic diseases has awarded almost $1 million in grants, the Bermuda Health Council announced today. The Chronic Disease Innovation Programme approved nine grants that totalled $922,080 and a planning grant of $37,500 between...

Precautions should be taken to prevent the transmission of the coronavirus from humans to the cat population, the government veterinarian has warned. Jonathan Nisbett said there was no evidence that the coronavirus could be passed from pets to people...

A Bermudian father of two in Leeds, England, is fighting for his life after his cancer diagnosis was delayed because of the coronavirus. Sherwin Hall, 27, said he had been in pain for months, but could not get a scan until less than three weeks ago. ...

The public was asked to help build a “wall of hope” to support people living with diabetes in a campaign launched today. The Bermuda Diabetes Association said it hoped people would want to recognise loved ones as part of a fundraising drive for its n...

Advice from health officials to diabetics to properly manage the disease over the Covid-19 pandemic could be “unrealistic”, a doctor has warned. Annabel Fountain, an endocrinologist and diabetes specialist, said that the Government’s list of “extreme...

The number of emergency calls involving people with dementia has risen during the Covid-19 crisis, a charity for sufferers and their caregivers has warned. Action on Alzheimer’s and Dementia, which has stopped its usual programmes for the “foreseeabl...