Health

More than 50 people have now been tested for coronavirus in the UK, according to the Department of Health (DoH).

The Royal British Legion has formally announced that it is to close its respite centre in Portrush – causing a wave of anger among some veterans in Northern Ireland who campaigned for its retention.

Campaigners trying to save the Royal British Legion (RBL) veterans respite centre in Portrush claim that trustees have officially decided to close the centre.

Health Minister Robin Swann said he has a “decision to make” after hearing calls from families of Muckamore Abbey Hospital patients for a public inquiry into alleged abuse.

Lobbyists are debating what time limits should be set on abortions in Northern Ireland after DUP leader Arlene Foster claimed there was broad agreement that the current position of 27 weeks was totally unacceptable.

Police are becoming increasingly concerned of the whereabouts of 57-year-old Paul Moran.

One day I was sitting at my desk at News Letter headquarters, when I realised I was coming down with the cold. So far, so commonplace. It was January; who doesn’t have to reach for the Kleenex in this desperate and bluest of months? I felt feverish, shivery. I sneezed and felt a cough brewing. I packed up at the end of the day, feeling utterly horrible, self-pityingly wretched. But I had no doubt the adequate dose of Co-codamol, a bag of oranges and some Lucozade would sort me out, plus an early night under a heavy duvet curled up in the foetal position beside my beloved bedside radiator.

Detectives from the PSNI’s Public Protection Branch have arrested a 34-year-old man as part of its investigation into Muckamore Abbey

The family of a six-year-old schoolboy have thanked his teacher after she intervened to help him get an early diagnosis for type 1 diabetes.

A new poetry book details the journey from despair to hope of Dermot Breen who lost his wife to ovarian cancer in 2015.

The number of women travelling from Northern Ireland to England and Wales for abortion has risen to more than 1,000, new figures show.

The Department for Health has published the number of abortions carried out in Northern Ireland in 2018/19.

This story begins in a Belfast office on a dark and distant November day in the early part of this millennium.

Health Minister Robin Swann has said suicide prevention is a “top priority” after a group of leading figures from sport, music and film wrote an open letter on the “public health emergency”.