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Diabetes sufferers will be able to get free retinal screening next month. The test can detect the onset of diabetic retinopathy, the leading cause of preventable blindness and vision impairment among people who have diabetes. The symptoms of retinop...

The first DailyMale clinic aimed at giving men a free health check has been hailed as an overwhelming success

Information Commissioner Gitanjali Gutierrez is to challenge a court ruling which found that she did not have the right to examine all records held by public authorities. The judgment, issued by Puisne Judge Shade Subair Williams at the start of this...

The Northshore Medical Laboratory, a division of Northshore Medical and Aesthetics Centre, has again been accredited by the American healthcare accreditation organisation COLA. Dwayne Simpson, senior medical laboratory technologist, said: “Northshore...

Emergency medical procedures could be postponed because of a lack of basic surgical supplies

Talks are being held with cruise lines to ease Covid-19 testing requirements, Lawrence Scott, the transport minister, has said. The move comes as two operators cancelled seven transatlantic cruises that were scheduled to visit Bermuda by the end of t...

Emergency powers brought in to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic will be withdrawn at the end of November, Kim Wilson, the health minister, said yesterday. The minister is to outline the moves when the House of Assembly meets on Friday for the first time ...

Schoolchildren and their parents are being reminded that pre-return Covid-19 testing starts today. A negative test result dated between today and Sunday is required for students to return to in-class learning on Monday. Diallo Rabain, the Minister ...

A former football coach will undergo vital eye surgery this month after a friend agreed to guarantee his loan. Mark “Burger” Jennings, 56, said that he secured a $7,200 loan from the Lady Cubitt Compassionate Association after Kevin Smith, a dear fri...

An 87-year-old man suffering from agonising knee pain has been told he will have to wait more than a year to get replacement surgery on the island

Dear Sir, Bermuda is indeed lucky to have an up-to-date clinic such as the one that JJ Soares has provided on Burnaby Street. I am particularly interested in his open MRI machine as, being very claustrophobic, I am unable to use the one at the local ...

Several years ago, I stood at my stainless steel autopsy table staring at a tiny bundle swaddled in white cotton. I had never performed an autopsy on a baby before. Medical records indicated the four-month-old died after 30 hours of fever and excruci...