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For the Bermuda Health Council, the news last week of Argus buying Island Health Services and the Family Practice Group was akin to an insurance company in the United States purchasing medical practices that accounted for 100 million Americans — and ...

British sports doctor Hamish Reid has led an adventurous life. He was a British Army ER doctor early in his medical training; in 2010 he set a Guinness World Record for being part of the first ever duo to row all the way around the British Isles; an...

A physician has attacked drastic cuts to the fees charged for diagnostic imaging, maintaining that his business will be “significantly curtailed”. J.J. Soares of Hamilton Medical Centre had ambitious plans for a walk-in centre at a new location later...

Another “Ageing in Bermuda” forum will take place on Friday as the island continues to confront what is considered a growing problem. Hosted by the Peace and Social Justice Committee of the Roman Catholic Church of Bermuda, the latest forum will be t...

Extended hours for MRI patients are being offered by Bermuda HealthCare Services while MRI is temporarily unavailable at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital. The extended hours will be available for the next two weeks. “We are here to serve the commu...

A Bermudian doctor has expressed his delight at being awarded a prize for the most outstanding research paper at a conference in Barbados. Kyjuan Brown, the director of the Northshore Medical & Aesthetics Centre, was awarded the Professor Hywel Will...

Private health insurers could jack up premiums for seniors after Government changed the rules on coverage, a charity warned yesterday. And Age Concern executive director Claudette Fleming said that the changes risked hitting the most vulnerable membe...

The sky’s the limit for health after a Bermuda insurance company signed up with part of Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin empire to deliver an online programme to get Island residents fit. The Colonial Group has teamed up with Virgin Pulse to bring a hea...

October 23, 2013 Dear Sir, I have a grievance to lodge with physicians in Bermuda that use patient sign-up sheets. It seems like an innocuous thing — having to sign in when you go to the doctor. Everyone has to go at one point or another, right? But...

Alarmed at the soaring cost of health insurance premiums, one business has opted to invest in the wellness of its employees. “The cost of healthcare is spiralling out of control in Bermuda,” warned Air Care general manager Robert Platt. Health insura...