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For brave Kandice Douglas-Young her 11th birthday at the end of this month is extra special. The youngster suffers from a rare congenital heart condition and will travel to Boston in August to find out if she will have to undergo potentially life-sav...

The Bermuda Hospitals Board yesterday confirmed that there is a shortage of chemotherapy drug bendamustine — but assured patients that the delay in treatment will not affect their outcome. According to a BHB spokeswoman, four patients have had their...

Carolyn Armstrong walks with a brace. Unless you know her well, it’s the only obvious sign that anything’s wrong. She’s lively, has a sense of humour and radiates good health. She also has multiple sclerosis. The disease usually strikes people betwe...

He was only 12 when he died, but Neehari Robinson has left behind a legacy worthy of someone who had lived to be 100. That was the sentiment of his father Otis Robinson as he spoke about his son, who was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive cancer tw...

The Bermuda Hospitals Board has appointed Christopher Fosker as its second oncologist. Dr Fosker, the husband of a Bermudian, is qualified to treat cancer patients with radiation therapy, chemotherapy and molecular therapy, and will work closely with...

“I am going to die.” That was Amani Flood’s first thought when she received a cancer diagnosis. “I fell ill one day and thought I had the flu,” she said. “It turned out to be something much more serious — non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a type of cancer orig...

Sir Michael Hirst became a champion for diabetes 20 years ago. It was about that time the UK Member of Parliament watched his young daughter grapple with Type One diabetes. He made it his mission to help her — and millions of others like her. Si...

The Argus Group has entered a strategic partnership with Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA). The arrangement offers Argus Health clients preferred access to CTCA services for cancer treatment or a second opinion for those who wish to gather ...

A diabetes summit will be held at the Hamilton Princess & Beach Club tomorrow. The event, which is open to the public, will feature a discussion by the senior team of the International Diabetes Federation and global young leaders in diabetes preventi...

No one wants medical decisions made through legislation. I think we all agree on that. What is missing from the local airwaves and blogs right now is clarity on what the new mammography guidelines mean for Bermuda. I want to stress that the guidelin...

The first rule of politics is generally understood to mean respecting your voters. But recently unveiled legislation proposing changes to insurance coverage for mammograms could only have reinforced the increasingly widespread view that Parliament i...

“We need to listen to what the people are saying.” — OBA MP Leah Scott, May 29, 2015, House of Assembly. On April 20, 2015, in a press release, the American College of Radiology [ACR] highlighted its concerns with the draft United States Preventive S...