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Doctors were forced to cancel hundreds of non-emergency operations because of the recent spike in coronavirus cases. Wesley Miller, the chief of staff at the Bermuda Hospitals Board, said that elective surgery had to be postponed between March and Ma...

Doctors are prescribing a drug to treat Covid-19 which health officials in Bermuda and overseas have warned against because of the risk of serious harm. A handful of doctors are offering patients Ivermectin – an anti-parasitic medicine – with the kno...

A heart doctor who “dramatically” improved the island’s cardiology treatment ten years ago has died. Carl Levick was 68. Dr Levick joined the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital in 2010 as director of cardiology after the hospital had gone several year...

When a doctor’s 93-year-old grandmother was admitted to hospital with Covid-19, he knew there was not much that could be done to help her. Kyjuan Brown knew treatment options for people with the coronavirus were very limited. But he was aware of a ch...

A group of nursing students will be unable to graduate from Bermuda College because of the coronavirus pandemic. The ten were expected to complete their studies and attend a graduation ceremony this week. But to pass the course they had to do practic...

Eliza Jane Lusher was born 15 years before the abolition of slavery. History tells us that she was a woman of fearless courage whose work during two yellow fever epidemics sets her apart in the history of Bermuda’s nurses. When she married John Henry...

Dear Sir, There is a beauty in numerous nationalities coming together with a unified aim. The Department of Statistics informed us on International Nurses Day that King Edward VII Memorial Hospital employs 514 nurses from 29 different countries. Thi...

Bermuda Hospitals Board this week performed 3D mammograms for the first time this week. BHB upgraded its digital mammography unit to provide an imaging test that combines multiple X-rays to create a three-dimensional picture of the breast. Renee Butt...

A total of 88 per cent of people admitted to hospital with Covid-19 over the last few weeks were not vaccinated, the Bermuda Hospitals Board revealed today. The BHB said 81 patients treated between March 14 to May 1 had not had the vaccine, 10, or 11...

A florist has donated 300 roses to nurses at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital. “We felt there was no one more deserving than nurses on the frontline of treating patients in Bermuda, to get a rose thanking them for their service,” said Demco owner Ca...

Human societies undergo shifts from time to time; for the better or the worse. The sources of those shifts are never fully understood — shrouded in some mystery. In the spring of 1981, during a dispute that mushroomed into a general strike, there...

The Covid-19 vaccination drive has been given a booster shot of $25,000 from a hotel owners’ group. Stephen Todd, the chief executive of the Bermuda Hotel Association, said that the sooner “herd immunity” could be reached, the sooner the island’s ho...