Health

The Mallusk and Glengormley Jingle Team has presented £69,437 to the Northern Ireland Children’s Hospice.

Queen’s University Belfast has produced research into blindness in China which it says could inform government policy, saving its citizens aged 50 or over “three million years of blindness”.

The head of the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service has stressed that he takes mental health seriously after a paramedic warned the pressure faced by staff is leading to “stress, depression and even suicidal thoughts”.

Northern Ireland broadcaster and television presenter, Stephen Nolan, was described as "inspirational" after he shared two photos documenting how much weight he has lost since starting a new fitness regime.

More than 2,400 people in Antrim and Newtownabbey are living with the heart condition atrial fibrillation, according to the Northern Ireland Chest Heart and Stroke charity.

The link between problem debt and social isolation in Northern Ireland is highlighted in a new report due to be published today.

A Northern Ireland man who contracted hepatitis C after being given infected blood has told how the ordeal destroyed his life.

Drinkers in the UK get drunk more often than anywhere else in the world, findings from a global survey suggest.

Health and social care services are changing.

Police have issued an appeal to find missing NI man Aidan Broderick.

A 67-year-old woman with a broken arm who was discharged from the Royal Victoria Hospital without a suitable care package being put in place was failed by the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, the NI Public Services Ombudsman has ruled.

People from all over Northern Ireland are now calling on bosses at I.T.V. to use the scandal surrounding The Jeremy Kyle Show as an opportunity to abolish one of the channel's most popular reality television programmes.

BBC Children in Need has awarded a grant of £28,789 to a project working with disadvantaged children and young people in Carrick.

The annual ‘Hilly 100’ fundraiser for Roddensvale School in Larne which took place yesterday (Sunday) has raised £3,000.

Northern Ireland has the highest ever number of children in its care system since records were first kept - over 3,100.

Around 6,000 women and even more men are expected to be diagnosed with cancer every year in Northern Ireland within a decade, a medical expert has said.