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The three Government-funded dental clinics that subsidise services for children, seniors, prisoners and those with special needs has stopped taking on new patients amid staffing shortages. The Hamilton Health Centre told The Royal Gazette that its s...

Bermuda Hospitals Board has announced its first Hospitals Week in more than 30 years, with the goal of helping provide data and information about the services it provides, how it operates and how well it performs. According to a press statement, ‘Kno...

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...

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...

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...

A spontaneous decision to quietly protest by hanging bras outside of the Cabinet building has been well received, organisers have said. The demonstration against legislation that would bring in new clinical guidelines for the mammogram breast cancer ...

I have been following the recent debate regarding provision of mammography screening in Bermuda from my home far afield. As a Bermudian GP with a particular interest in public health, I have practised in the UK, Bermuda and now Australia, and I have ...

The cost of the hospital’s new acute care wing is about to be passed on to consumers through higher premiums, as the price of the Standard Hospital Benefit goes up by more than ten per cent this month. The Standard Health Premium (SPR) is set to rise...

Lorrie Peniston has a master’s degree in happiness. It’s not something she pulled out of thin air — she earned it from the University of Pennsylvania. Technically, it’s a master’s of applied positive psychology; the scientific study of the strengths ...

A juice tanker called on Bermuda over the weekend to drop off an injured crewman, according to Bermuda Maritime Operations. The refrigerated orange juice tanker Orange Ocean diverted on Saturday and sent ashore a 43-year-old officer yesterday with a ...

Fatty foods and alcohol were a way of life for restaurateur Rick Olson. On any given Friday you could find him propped up at a bar, drinking for hours. On Saturday mornings he’d ease his hangover with a cheeseburger or some other greasy treat. No mor...