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Protesters gathered outside the Summerhaven assisted living facility yesterday, in a fresh round of criticism over alleged mismanagement. “This is the first time residents have come together like this, and I congratulate them for it,” said part-time ...

Some 20 clients, staff members and supporters of the Salvation Army marched proudly through the streets of Hamilton yesterday morning in the name of addiction recovery. The walk was one of several events being staged during the month of September wh...

There has been a lot of coverage in the media lately about radiation exposure from medical imaging and it’s important to sort out fact from fiction.People are rightly concerned whether radiation from mammograms, bone density tests, computed tomograph...

Contentious legislation aimed at regulating private healthcare providers and the equipment they use is due to be retabled in Parliament in November but some doctors fear they still won’t be happy with the reworked Bill. The Royal Gazette understands ...

Cupping is in the news these days. Many watched Olympians battle it out in Brazil with large red or purple circles on their skin. So you may be asking, “What’s this new thing called cupping?” Let me begin by saying that it’s not “new” nor is it just ...

The Bermuda Red Cross is offering an exciting new way to learn CPR and First Aid with the introduction of a video simulation game that depicts real life emergency situations. The game, which teaches the theory portion of the training, is set in a vir...

At just 2 years old, Dane Conrads has endured more health struggles than some people will face in a lifetime. One week after he was born, the youngster — son of former Saltus Grammar School student A.J. Conrads — caught a virus which shut down his l...

Marcus Pimentel’s reference letters all carried the same message: passionate and talented with “superior intellectual ability”. Despite that, he struggled to maintain his focus in subjects that he had little interest in. At 5, he learnt he had attent...

The Bermuda Blood Donor Centre is urgently asking people with the blood type O negative to donate. “Levels of O negative blood are low. Individuals with this blood type are quite rare, and so we are asking anyone who is O negative to help save live...

Take the money and run.That’s the battle cry for the Athletic Club’s Thinner Winner Contest, which will award the winning team $2,000 at the end of the six-week challenge that will begin this week. Now in its 4th year, the annual contest will kick of...

The island’s supplies of OxyNorm, a powerful painkiller used by patients with conditions ranging from cancer to severe migraines, have run short. As an opioid, the pharmaceutical is a controlled drug and therefore requires special clearance to be imp...

A significant increase in rates of diarrhoea and vomiting illness has prompted the Ministry of Health to issue a high-level warning. The Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit raised the alert because the number of cases of gastroenteritis is unusually ...