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A champion for preventive medicine led the fight against diabetes in Bermuda – one of the island’s most rampant chronic diseases. Femi Bada was also a former chairman of the Bermuda Diabetes Association. Dr Bada advocated the use of alternative techn...

Almost 200 medical professionals have signed an open letter in support of Covid-19 vaccination. The Bermuda Medical Doctors Association said a total of 198 doctors, dentists, nurses and physiotherapists had added their names to the open letter, first...

Covid-19 is keeping podiatrist Natalie Bennett on her toes. Since opening Arches Podiatry in Hamilton earlier this month, she is seeing many clients with pandemic related foot issues. “A lot of people went from having a wide ranging area to walk, to...

Doctors are launching a campaign to promote coronavirus vaccination, it was revealed at the weekend. The news came as the Bermuda Medical Doctors Association warned that healthcare staff were “exhausted” by the battle against a Covid-19 fourth wave a...

Doctors yesterday joined forces in an impassioned plea to the public to get vaccinated. The Bermuda Medical Doctors’ Association said their “hearts were breaking” at the human cost of the pandemic. The BMDA told the public in an open letter: “You tr...

A student who pledged to serve others after her brother died eight years ago has been awarded $10,000 to help her qualify as a doctor. Jade Richardson received a scholarship from Northshore Medical and Aesthetics Centre for the third year in a row. M...

An annual $5,000 medical scholarship in memory of a top eye doctor has gone to a Bermudian student looking to bring her skills back to the island after qualifying at a top Caribbean medical school. Deja Tucker, 23, said the Bermuda International Inst...

Growing up on Cox’s Hill, Pembroke, Wilma Frith longed to become a nurse. “When I was playing with my dolls, they were always my patients,” the 85-year-old remembered. But she had to wait a long time to see her dream become reality. After high scho...

Vaxism I think we are witnessing a blue eyes, brown eyes experiment that no one could have predicted. The Oprah Show was not one of my favourites, but there were two episodes that are etched in my memory. The “you get a car” happy episode wh...

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...

Faith Burgess-Clarke 1929-2021 Bermuda’s first chiropractor who “broke barriers” as a Black woman in the field has died at 92. Faith Burgess-Clarke also served in the Adult Education Society and the Professional Women’s Club. Deeply religious an...

“Vaccine hesitancy” is being switched for “vaccine acceptance”, the House of Assembly was told yesterday. Measures against the coronavirus pandemic came up for discussion as MPs approved an emergency restrictions, which would have expired next Wednes...