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Published: Friday, 08 February 2013

Bacteria close school for second week

A special school in Newtownabbey will remain closed for a second week following the discovery of a strain of Legionella.

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Published: Friday, 08 February 2013

Anger over children's heart guidelines

Families of children born with congenital heart disease say they are angry that guidelines for the consultation on the future of children's heart surgery in Northern Ireland have not been endorsed by the relevant professional bodies.

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Published: Friday, 08 February 2013

Kyle 'lucky to be alive' after cancer

Broadcaster Jeremy Kyle has given his first television interview about his battle with testicular cancer, speaking exclusively to ITV's This Morning as he returned to work.

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Published: Wednesday, 06 February 2013

Derry girl's hair-raising donation

Londonderry schoolgirl Ciara Harkin's long hair took a lifetime to grow, but later this month she is planning to have it all cut off to help sick children.

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Published: Wednesday, 06 February 2013

NI cancer rates rising

Around 8,000 men and women in Northern Ireland were diagnosed with cancer in 2011, new figures have shown.

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Published: Tuesday, 05 February 2013

NI leaders back organ donation reform

The First Minister and deputy First Minister have given their support to proposals that could see a dramatic change to how people donate organs in Northern Ireland.

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Published: Tuesday, 05 February 2013

City A&E could shut

The emergency department at Belfast City Hospital could close permanently, the health minister has revealed.

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Published: Monday, 04 February 2013

PSNI probe into pseudomonas deaths

Police have launched an investigation into the deaths of four babies from pseudomonas.

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Published: Monday, 04 February 2013

NI ban on gay blood 'unjustifiable'

The lifetime ban on homosexual men giving blood in Northern Ireland is unjustifiable, the High Court has heard.

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Published: Monday, 04 February 2013

Call for 'opt out' organ donation law

A call to change Northern Ireland's organ donation law to a system of 'presumed consent' has been launched by Ulster Unionist MLA Jo-Anne Dobson.

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Published: Saturday, 02 February 2013

March to save children's heart surgery

Hundreds of people have taken part in a march to support the retention of paediatric cardiac surgery at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children.

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Published: Friday, 01 February 2013

Special school closed as bacteria found

A special school in Newtownabbey has been closed following the discovery of a strain of Legionella.

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Published: Friday, 01 February 2013

Inquiry into girl's death in hospital

The mother of Raychel Ferguson, whose death is being investigated by the hyponatraemia inquiry, says she is heartbroken to know her daughter's life could have been saved by a blood test.

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Published: Wednesday, 30 January 2013

'NI too embarrassed to report cancer'

A third of people in Northern Ireland don't report cancer symptoms because they are worried about wasting the doctor's time, a survey has found.

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Published: Wednesday, 30 January 2013

Noel Gallagher seeks advice over hearing

Rocker Noel Gallagher has turned to doctors to help him deal with a painful hearing problem.

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Published: Tuesday, 29 January 2013

City restaurant fined over hygiene

The owner of an Indian restaurant in Belfast has been fined a total of £1,000 for food safety offences which included decaying food particles being found on the eatery's floor.

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Published: Tuesday, 29 January 2013

Robot doctor tends to Daisy Hill patients

Critically ill patients at Newry's Daisy Hill Hospital could be treated by a robot doctor in a UK first.

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Published: Thursday, 24 January 2013

Baby Cameron in protection review

The mother of a baby murdered by his father has spoken out after a new report, which examined his death, revealed the number of young people on the child protection register in Northern Ireland has risen by 18% in six years.

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Published: Wednesday, 23 January 2013

Call to address young male suicides

A west Belfast man has told UTV how he looked for help to turn away from drugs and deal with his mental health problems, as a new report reveals young men are three times more likely to die of suicide than women.

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Published: Wednesday, 23 January 2013

Lives lost amid ovarian cancer 'delays'

Women's lives are being cut short in Northern Ireland, due to delays in diagnosis of ovarian cancer.

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Published: Wednesday, 23 January 2013

NI jobless remains higher than UK average

The number of people in Northern Ireland signing on for unemployment benefit rose in December, while the unemployment figure decreased overall in the last quarter.

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Published: Wednesday, 23 January 2013

Theron honoured for humanitarian work

Charlize Theron was honoured for her humanitarian work on Tuesday at the World Economic Forum's annual Crystal Award Ceremony.

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Published: Monday, 21 January 2013

One in four miss cervical cancer tests

A major cancer charity has warned that one in four women in Northern Ireland are not taking up their cervical cancer screening appointments.

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Published: Monday, 21 January 2013

Fighting the Blue Mondays

Three weeks into 2013, Christmas is behind us and its cash hangover means many are feeling the pinch, so is this why Monday is thought to be the most depressing day of the year?

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Published: Friday, 18 January 2013

Savita coroner in transparency promise

A coroner has promised the husband of an Indian dentist , who died after she suffered a miscarriage in a Galway hospital, that her inquest will be transparent and open to public scrutiny.

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Published: Thursday, 10 January 2013

Marie Stopes to register with regulator

The operators of the Northern Ireland Marie Stopes clinic are to register with health regulators in a bid to increase public confidence in their services.

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Published: Wednesday, 09 January 2013

Queen's cancer lab could save lives

Cancer charities say research and testing carried out at a new laboratory at Queen's University in Belfast could help save lives.

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Published: Tuesday, 08 January 2013

Irish government begin abortion hearings

Three days of hearings on the Irish Government's plan to introduce legislation on abortion begin on Tuesday.

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Published: Friday, 04 January 2013

'Street Angels' for Omagh town centre

Omagh's Policing and Community Safety Partnership has secured £10,000 from the Department of Justice to set up a volunteer 'Street Angels' programme in the wake of the murder of Co Monaghan teenager Jason McGovern.

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Published: Thursday, 03 January 2013

'Marked increase' in flu cases

Doctors have warned of an upsurge in cases of winter flu in Northern Ireland, following an outbreak of the norovirus vomiting disease.

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Published: Thursday, 03 January 2013

61% 'overweight or obese' in NI

More than one in two people in Northern Ireland are overweight or obese, health experts say.

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Published: Wednesday, 02 January 2013

NI youths 'facing downward spiral'

Young people in Northern Ireland who are unable to access employment, education or training are struggling to cope with day-to-day life, a report has warned.

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