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Government reforms for health insurance claims regulation explicitly disregarded recommendations, and could drive up the cost of treatment, according to a physician and advisor. Femi Bada, a physician from the 15-member implementation committee that ...

Shadow Health Minister Michael Dunkley is calling for Government to reveal what stem cell regulations are in store as plans seemingly continue to treat desperately sick patients at the Brown-Darrell Clinic. Three years have now passed since late Heal...

Former Senate President Alf Oughton’s important contribution to healthcare reform has set the template for our present discussions. And Health Minister Zane DeSilva and Bermuda Health Council CEO Dr Jennifer Attride-Stirling have been indefatigable i...

Ten staff from Mount St Agnes Academy have made a full recovery after suffering from severe food poisoning at an end-of-year celebration. The staff members have all been released from hospital after being struck by food poisoning at the privately cat...

New legislation has been tabled to further protect people who need psychological help from unqualified doctors. The Psychological Practitioners Amendment Act 2011 aims to tighten up the code of conduct regarding the registration of medics. It aims t...

April 28, 2011 Dear Sir, As an American healthcare professional who has seen many Bermudian patients in practice, I have been keenly following the proposed reform of Bermuda's healthcare system. In my view this major reform is long overdue and I comm...

LONDON (Reuters) - Chronic illnesses like cancer, heart disease and diabetes have reached global epidemic proportions and now cause more deaths than all other diseases combined, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday. In its first worldwi...

April 25, 2011 Dear Sir, Can you explain why the subject of the National Health Plan 2011 nor, indeed, any reference to it, appeared in today’s issue of The Royal Gazette? I scoured all 40 pages of the paper twice to be sure that I hadn’t missed the ...

April 21, 2011 Dear Sir, I find it ironic that ‘sustainability’ is being used as an argument for the proposed National Health Plan. According to the Oxford dictionary ‘sustainable’ is defined as, “able to be maintained at a certain rate or level”, bu...