Health

Boys will be vaccinated against human papilloma virus (HPV) for the first time as the roll out across schools in the north west gets under way this week.

HURT (Have Your Tomorrows) is poised to roll out a new programme aimed at tackling substance misuse and addiction following a major funding boost.

A Limavady widower who lost his wife of almost 50 years to a brain tumour has vowed to help spare others from similar heartbreak by raising funds in her memory.

The family of the singer, songwriter and broadcaster Eamon Friel have urged people to be aware of the symptoms of sepsis.

Leading world experts will be in Derry next Thursday to discuss suicide prevention following a performance of 'Every Brilliant Thing', a play by Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe acted by Stephen Beggs, that is billed by Action Trauma as a 'hilarious and heart-warming approach to a difficult subject'.

SDLP leader Colum Eastwood has called upon Ulster University to “step up and demonstrate their commitment to the graduate entry medical school project” by relocating their health sciences department to Derry.

Hundreds of experts in suicide prevention from across the world will gather in Derry next week for what will be the largest conference ever staged in the city.

Derry’s Irish dance community has rallied around one of its own, the much loved Irish dance tutor, Elizabeth McConomy, who was recently dealt the blow of a cancer diagnosis.

The Western Trust has urged people to talk about mental health and suicide as it linked in with organisations highlighting World Suicide Prevention Day on Tuesday and the forthcoming World Mental Health Day in October.

Derry is having less and less children and births will dip far more in the next 20 years than in the North overall.

Creggan Community Collective will this evening (Tuesday) host a Service of Remembrance for those who have died by suicide locally.

The Western Health and Social Care Trust (Western Trust) is supporting the sixth annual Palliative Care Week (8-14 September 2019) facilitated by All Ireland Institute of Hospice and Palliative Care.

A business case for the multi-million pound ‘Our Future Foyle’ project is still being worked through with government departments in Belfast, the Public Health Agency (PHA) has confirmed.

More people in the Western Trust are waiting over a year for NHS treatment than in all of England, new data shows.

The winners of the Derry Journal / BetMcLean People of the Year Awards have been announced.

A Dungiven woman who had a kidney transplant nine years ago has encouraged people to talk about organ donation with their family.

One of Derry’s most famous landmarks has been emblazoned in pink with the ‘Yes I Donate: Is Deontóir Mé’ slogan to encourage more people to get on the donor register this Organ Donation Week.

The Mayor of Derry and Strabane has pledged her support for Organ Donation Week by urging local people to have that difficult conversation with their family and friends about organ donation.