THE Public Health Agency (PHA) is urging people who not yet received their first or second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine to get it before June 30.

FORMER Ireland and Ulster rugby captain Rory Best is to walk 300km across Ireland in support of children and families impacted by cancer.

SMOKING is linked to the loss of up to 15 years of healthy life, a leading health charity has warned.

A NEW information booklet to mark World Swallow Awareness Day has been launched in Northern Ireland.

A GROWING waiting list for care packages offered to those living with illness or disability in the north must be urgently addressed, it has been warned as available care decreases.

THE chairman of the BMA in Northern Ireland has backed junior doctors in England as they being a 72-hour strike action.

FAMILIES who lost loved ones to Covid are to gather to discuss the progress of a public inquiry into the pandemic.

MPs have backed a new organ donation law for Northern Ireland, known as "Daithí's Law".

Thousands of health workers are also taking part in a walkout on Tuesday.

THOUSANDS of health workers will once again join picket lines tomorrow over “an existential crisis” facing the NHS.

THE family of Dáithí Mac Gabhann have told of their joy that the stalled organ donation laws for Northern Ireland will progress this week following a last-minute intervention by the UK government.

New laws on organ donation are to be passed in the north by the British government despite the ongoing political stalemate at Stormont.

A NEW £40 million health centre in Lisburn that houses seven GP practices has opened its doors to patients.

STRIKE action by health workers in Northern Ireland has been moved to next week to coincide with industrial action with teachers.

THE FATHER of Dáithí Mac Gabhann has said Westminster now offers the "only hope" to get stalled organ donation legislation passed after efforts to recall the assembly looks certain to falter.

A CO Down woman whose two daughters were born with congenital heart disease is set to take on a charity run to raise awareness of the help available for families in a similar situation.

THE north's "out of date" cervical screening model is risking lives, it has been claimed, as calls increase for testing to be improved for women.

A DUP MP has called for an urgent meeting with the Southern Trust over revelations that a woman diagnosed with cervical cancer was told previous tests failed to spot early warning signs.

AN Alliance councillor has revealed he is recovering from major surgery following a previous cancer diagnosis.