Health

A group which helps those affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster hope that a recent Sky and HBO mini-series will encourage more local people to become host families for children from the area.

The parents of the late Alexandra Johnston are to lobby for more services to be made available in Derry for children with cancer.

A scientist from Dungiven lead a research project which has made an ‘important’ and ‘exciting’ discovery for heart patients.

The Western Trust Maternity Units have been named as one of the ‘Ten Best’ in the UK for their work in helping detect small babies and preventing stillbirths.

Claudy woman Zara Brown had no sooner finished her final degree exams than she was off climbing 5,565m to Mount Everest basecamp in Nepal to raise funds for Cancer Focus Northern Ireland.

Nearly 60,000 acres of land in the North were sprayed with the controversial herbicide glyphosate in the last two years for which data was available, the 'Journal' can reveal.

A Derry nurse has said she is ‘humbled and grateful’ after becoming the first in the Western Trust ever to be awarded the honour of ‘Queens Nurse’.

A man is recovering in hospital after he was rescued from the River Foyle in Derry.

The body of a man as been recovered from a river in Donegal after a member of the public contacted Gardai.

Baby Grace McGroarty was ‘absolutely perfect’ when she was born on May 24, 2009.

A local MLA has said the cancellation of hundreds of chemotherapy appointments falling on bank holidays is a serious concern and has caused undue stress to cancer patients.

A local woman who lost her mother to a rare form of sarcoma has urged other people to be aware of the symptoms.

Local Councillors have urged the Department for Communities to take all steps necessary to extend Welfare Reform mitigations for local people beyond 2020.

A recently retired Derry GP has warned that people in Derry and Strabane will die as there will not be enough doctors to treat them if more medical students are not trained and retained here.

BBC broadcaster, Stephen Nolan, has shed so much body weight that he has started wearing clothes designed for women.

Derry City and Strabane District Council’s Leisure Centres are offering young people an extra incentive to get out and active during the school holidays with the return of its popular £1 Summer initiative.

Absence rate levels for Derry & Strabane Council staff have decreased to 5.5 per cent for the period April 2018 to March 2019, and representing a significant reduction of almost 30 over cent when compared to the first year of the new Council when the rate was 7.8%.

Homelessness and a lack of social housing in Derry are impacting severely on the mental health of many of those on the waiting list, local Councillors have warned.

Politicians have united in Northern Ireland to call for group B Strep screening for all pregnant women, highlighting that it is “unacceptable that a baby born in Northern Ireland has a higher chance of developing a group B Strep infection than a baby born elsewhere”.