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The Bermuda Hospitals Board yesterday confirmed that there is a shortage of chemotherapy drug bendamustine — but assured patients that the delay in treatment will not affect their outcome. According to a BHB spokeswoman, four patients have had their...

Coroner Juan Wolffe has called on the Bermuda Hospitals Board to look at its policies regarding a drug which can save the lives of overdosing drug users. Delivering his ruling at the inquest of 25-year-old Christopher Spencer, who died in 2012 of a h...

Bermuda’s employers must formulate policies to move with the changing laws on medical marijuana use, according to a pioneer in the employee assistance field. Dr Dale Masi has been invited to the Island to discuss marijuana in the workplace, and has ...

Government is planning to legalise cannabis for medical use, while also giving police greater discretion to caution first time offenders who might otherwise be charged with cannabis possession. The exact cannabis-containing products that will be perm...

Public Safety Minister Michael Dunkley said he is prepared to begin a “meaningful discussion” on the decriminalisation of marijuana. Opposition Leader Marc Bean and Attorney General Mark Pettingill are among those who have called for a mature public ...

Government yesterday advised persons whose prescriptions were filled at Whites’ pharmacies to contact their doctor should they need more medicine. Whites’ Pharmacy in Warwick and Whites’ Southside Pharmacy in St David’s both closed when the grocer we...

A baggage handler told Supreme Court that he collected and delivered a package for a co-worker at the centre of a plot to import heroin. The package — a dummy placed by US investigators — was allegedly found later that day in a blue and white Thermos...