Health

Popular Ulster actor Adrian Dunbar has officially opened the new Health and Wellbeing Centre at Altnagelvin Hospital.

Ashleigh Coyle, star of BBC Northern Ireland’s recent Beauty Queen and Single programme, tells Kathryn McKenna what inspired her emotional ‘makeunder’ video

Eileen Paisley left her first meeting with Martin McGuinness feeling she was “just the same” as the former IRA leader in the eyes of God.

A new law criminalising dishonesty on the part of health service staff should be named after Raychel Ferguson who died after being fed the wrong type of saline drip following an appendix operation in Altnagelvin in 2001, her heartbroken mother has said.

On January 4, W E Scott Memorial Lodge 554, Campsie, held their first stated communication of the New Year and after the close of the meeting, the brethren had the pleasure of giving a warm welcome to Pamela Smyth and her daughter Jennifer. On their entering the Lodge room the brethren stood in respect and gave a hearty applause as Jennifer walked down the hall.

The mother of a boy whose foot was amputated and reattached backwards has spoken of her thanks for the skilled surgeons whose intervention means her son can now walk again.

The NSPCC have reported a sharp rise in the number of counselling sessions on Child Sexual Exploitation.

The Northwest and Roe Valley Bereaved by Suicide Support Groups will hold their annual ‘Memory Tree of Lights’ ceremonies next month.

Prince Harry has personally thanked a team of health professionals from Belfast – using video technology as Storm Ophelia prevented the RVH team from making it to London to receive a prestigious award in person.

The Public Health Agency (PHA) is reminding all people aged 70 that they are eligible to receive the shingles vaccine.

The Air Ambulance Northern Ireland is now recruiting for Area Fundraising Managers across Northern Ireland - after deployment of the service has exceeded expectations in the first two months since its launch.

The Irish health service has given formal assurances to a Donegal Church of Ireland cleric that it will not be removing a chapel for his denomination from Stranorlar Community Hospital.

The life expectancies for men and women living in the 11 local council areas of Northern Ireland have been revealed.

The mother of a young man who died after a severe asthma attack has made a moving video to highlight how serious the condition can be.

Humanoid robots are a 'strong' step closer after engineers developed synthetic muscle that can lift a thousand times its own weight.

Automatic flushing shower units are set to be installed at local Council sports pavilions as part of Legionella risk control measures.

The Western Trust is to stage a free event locally focusing on ‘living well with respiratory disease’ in the Waterside.