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A food and nutrition adviser from the Pan American Health Organisation visited Bermuda to provide technical support for the development of a child healthy eating programme. Audrey Morris held talks with Department of Health programme managers, Bermud...

Three days after a mammogram, Arlene Trott discovered a lump in her breast. She was fishing with her two young children at the time. “I wasn’t digging around or palpitating,” she said. “I just brushed my hands over my chest.” The lump was hard and t...

KFC has joined forces with the Bermuda Red Cross this month to help raise money for the charity. The eatery is now offering customers $1 treat voucher booklets, each of which contain five vouchers that children can exchange for a cookie, an apple tur...

A charity representing the blind and partially-sighted in Bermuda is to hold a range of events this month to highlight the issues facing people affected by loss of vision. Thursday, October 8, is World Sight Day, aimed at raising public awareness abo...

Breast Cancer Awareness Month was yesterday officially proclaimed by Senator Lynne Woolridge, the Junior Minister of Health, Seniors and Environment. “After lung cancer, breast cancer accounts for the majority of deaths in women worldwide,” Sen Wool...

The Bermuda Red Cross will host an open house this afternoon, marking its 65th anniversary. Formed on August 1, 1950, as a branch of the British Red Cross Society, it was originally a nursing reserve, growing over the years to provide other communit...

Hundreds of families joined in the fun of the annual Bounce for Autism event at Southampton Oval on Saturday. Hosted by the Tomorrow’s Voices Autism Centre, more than 350 children and their families took part in the various activities. The organisati...

Residents gathered at Pier 6 last night sporting a variety of colourful wigs, head accessories and hairstyles to help to raise cash for cancer charity PALS as part of the fourth annual Mad Hair Day. Staff and students at businesses and schools acros...

Bermuda’s treatment of stroke patients has improved but much more still needs to be done, according to Mark Selley of the Bermuda Stroke and Family Support Association. Mr Selley said that while they had been fighting to improve insurance coverage an...

Dear Sir, On behalf of my whole family I would like to publicly thank the staff of Agape House. We have never seen such a group of healthcare staff that are so generous, so diligent and so empathetic as those who work there. They are true diamonds ...

A renowned US cancer specialist will travel to Bermuda this week to speak with residents about radiation therapy. Tatiana Lingos, director of network development at Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s radiation oncology department, will provide a presenta...

A new school year brings special challenges for the 2,000 children in Bermuda with asthma. The disease is the main reason why students miss classes, according to Open Airways. The asthma charity yesterday offered the following tips for keeping childr...