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Home birth warning after baby death

A doctor has warned that home births should only take place within 20 minutes travel of a hospital.
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GPs’ swine flu vaccine programme is on target

Friday, 6 November 2009

Health chiefs have moved to reassure the public that the swine flu vaccination programme will be completed by the December deadline after it was confirmed there were two more swine flu-related deaths over the past week.
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Cells ‘damaged from a distance’

Friday, 6 November 2009

Nanoparticles can damage DNA from a distance by affecting biological signals, scientists at the University of Bristol have shown.
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Superbug probe over hospital deaths

Wednesday, 4 November 2009

An investigation is under way to find out if the deaths of two elderly patients in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda are linked to a serious outbreak of the superbug C Diff which has led to a major curtailment in services.
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Have experts found cure for leukaemia?

Tuesday, 3 November 2009

Scientists have discovered a new drug which they claim is able to kill leukaemia.
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Men twice as likely to have diabetes

Monday, 2 November 2009

Men over the age of 50 are almost twice as likely as women to have |diabetes without knowing it, it was claimed today.
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Exercise will cut diabetes say doctors

Friday, 30 October 2009

A healthy diet and regular exercise can reduce the long-term likelihood of diabetes by a third in people at high risk of the disease, research has shown.
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Experts warn over ticking timebomb of Type 2 diabetes

Friday, 30 October 2009

Northern Ireland is in dire need of an NHS diabetes screening service to tackle exploding numbers of the life-threatening condition being fuelled by rising levels of obesity.
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Rise in Northern Ireland elderly dying from cold

Friday, 30 October 2009

The number of older people in Northern Ireland dying from the cold reached its highest level for almost a decade last winter, it was revealed today.
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Swine flu mum is ‘stable’

Thursday, 29 October 2009

A woman who was transferred from Northern Ireland to a London hospital for treatment after being diagnosed with swine flu shortly after giving birth is in a stable condition.
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Everyone at high flu risk to get vaccine by December

Thursday, 29 October 2009

Health officials have moved to reassure the public that the swine flu vaccination programme in Northern Ireland will be completed as soon as possible.
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An estimated one in 25 adults of working age has used cannabis

Drugs chief: Alcohol more dangerous than ecstasy, LSD and cannabis

Thursday, 29 October 2009

The British Government's chief drug adviser has sparked controversy by claiming ecstasy, LSD and cannabis are less dangerous than cigarettes and alcohol.
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Curry spice 'begins to kill cancer within 24 hours'

Wednesday, 28 October 2009

Spices in curry may help to cure a certain type of cancer, new research shows.
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Boy rushed to hospital after swine flu jab

Tuesday, 27 October 2009

The safety of Northern Ireland’s swine flu vaccination programme was called into question today by the parent of a young special needs pupil who ended up in hospital just hours after getting the jab.

McGimpsey cash concern

Monday, 26 October 2009

Cash being spent to tackle the swine flu pandemic in Northern Ireland is coming off other health priorities, the Health Minister has warned.
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Trial on obesity drug ‘promising’

Friday, 23 October 2009

People taking the highest dose of a new anti-obesity drug lost more than a stone in weight in 20 weeks, a study has shown.
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Scientists closer to womb transplant breakthrough

Thursday, 22 October 2009

British scientists believe they are a step closer to carrying out the first-ever successful womb transplant.
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Closing swine flu schools: wrong response or wise precaution?

Thursday, 22 October 2009

The Departments of Education and Health have both been adamant that schools should remain open as far as possible even in the face of a swine flu pandemic.
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Orla O'Kane, 14, from Derry who died on Sunday 11th October.

Why are Northern Ireland swine flu death schools still open?

Thursday, 22 October 2009

Health chiefs were today called on to close special needs schools dealing with swine flu outbreaks as the number of pupils dying with the virus rose to four.
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Swine flu jabs get under way

Wednesday, 21 October 2009

The government’s vaccination programme to slow the spread of swine flu will get under way today with frontline health workers the first of the priority groups to receive the vaccine.
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Dad of suicide teen backs BMA plan to help victims

Friday, 16 October 2009

The father of a teenager who died by suicide has called for the British Medical Association recommendations on mental health provision to be implemented.
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