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A weight-loss workshop with a difference is to be held tomorrow at Spirit House in Devonshire. Island company Fuelled Bermuda Ltd will present “An Ayurvedic Approach to Weight Loss”. Organisers say participants will learn “a radically different appro...

All Yasmin Cann really remembers is the excruciating pain. If pressed, she can tell how doctors at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital put her in the ICU and plugged her into tubes; how she was then operated on by specialist surgeons at Lahey Hospital ...

Most men are too embarrassed to talk about erectile dysfunction; Jeff MacLeod is starting the conversation for them. Of great concern to the physician is that it’s a problem affecting “relatively young, healthy men”, some of whom go without sex for y...

While studying law in England, Siraj Grant developed a minor infection. His back hurt and his lymph nodes were swollen. After seeing his doctor, he turned to an alternative therapy called cupping to detox his body. “I kept hearing a lot about it and...

An increase in stress and executive burnout because of the Covid-19 pandemic has sparked the development of a series of therapeutic services by a new consortium of medical specialists. Submerge, a programme introduced by Kindred, Solstice and Fountai...

A virtual therapy programme for young people set up in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis could become a permanent fixture, its creators have said. Solstice, a psychological and psychiatric treatment centre, developed the Zoom-based Connect Virtual prog...

Dentists are charging patients a fee to help cover the rocketing cost of personal protective equipment that has left some practices “struggling to survive”. The cost of protective suits, medical masks and hoods, as well as office renovations such as ...

Bermuda’s health providers will next month update how they classify medical problems to help provide better coverage. The Bermuda Health Council announced this morning it would shift its medical diagnostic coding system from ICD-9 to ICD-10, which it...

More than 100 new Covid-19 tests revealed no additional cases of the virus, the Ministry of Health said last night. A spokeswoman for the ministry said 104 results were received yesterday, but none were positive. The results mean the number of Covid-...

A specialist medical centre is to offer classes for patients who suffer from chronic kidney disease. Bermuda Home Dialysis Services has launched its chronic kidney disease programme, which will start “in the near future” after quarantine measures hav...

Asthmatics should take extra precautions over the Covid-19 pandemic, a charity said yesterday. Liz Boden, the president of asthma group Open Airways, said people with the condition should use their preventer inhalers twice a day to keep it under cont...

Five more people have been tested for a potential killer strain of coronavirus, the Ministry of Health revealed yesterday. A ministry spokeswoman added that 22 people were “self-monitoring with public health supervision” as a precaution against Covid...