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50 Pharmacies could have do-it-yourself coronavirus antigen tests for sale by next week. The kits will allow residents to screen for the bug at home with results ready in as little as 20 minutes. Tamara Richardson, the vice-president for sales and op...

Maximum prices will be set for commonly used drugs under new legislation tabled in the House of Assembly this morning. Tabling amendments to the Bermuda Health Council Amendment Act, health minister Kim Wilson said it heralded “important and overdue ...

An independent pharmacy with a personal touch has opened in Hamilton. Total Health Chemist, in Butterfield Place on Front Street, is owned and operated by the pharmacist team of Eimear Burke and Rebecca White, two veterans of the pharmacy landscape i...

Pharmacies have introduced new safety precautions and regulations for prescriptions in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The rules include a maximum of two months’ supply of medicine for chronic conditions and an extension from five days’ emergency ...

NEW YORK — OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP reached a tentative agreement with some plaintiffs to resolve widespread litigation over its alleged role in fuelling the US opioid crisis and plans to tussle with states opposing its settlement offer in ba...

Sales of medicinal products containing the marijuana-derived drug cannabidiol have gone ahead “without incident”, the Minister of Health said yesterday. Kim Wilson told MPs that CBD products had been bought in pharmacies without a prescription and ov...

A new pharmacy has opened in a prime spot in Hamilton. The Par-la-Ville Pharmacy is located at 2 Church Street, at the junction with Par-la-Ville Road. The business is part of the Bermuda Pharmacy Group, which also operates Point Finger Road Pharmacy...

Jennie Lightbourne comes from a line of pharmacists. Despite strong urging from her father and grandfather, she wasn’t drawn to the profession. Both were pharmacists who owned their own pharmacies in Ireland. Mrs Lightbourne took a different path. “I...