On March 26 a British middleweight boxing title fight between Chris Eubank Jr and Nick Blackwell ended with distressing scenes.

David Cameron’s “vision” of a seven-day NHS service has been met with scepticism by health experts along with the threat of industrial action.

Three television ads for e-cigarettes have been banned in the UK just weeks after new rules came into effect allowing people to be shown using the devices.

About 3% of the Irish population suffers from exercise addiction, a leading psychiatrist said yesterday.

Tens of thousands of lives could be saved every year if all smokers switched from cigarettes to e-cigarettes, British experts have said.

Tens of thousands of lives could be saved every year if all British smokers switched from cigarettes to e-cigarettes, experts have said.

Electronic cigarettes should face greater restrictions on their use, sale and promotion, the World Health Organisation has said.

Conor McGregor has a different perspective than most when it comes to what the Irish sporting public holds close to its heart.

E-cigarettes should be banned in public places because they “normalise” smoking, a leading medic has said.

WHEN the dust settled after the festival there had been 90 arrests, including a large number for assault and theft, 308 drug seizures, 28 cases of alleged drug dealing, and multiple teenagers had been stabbed — no, not the Swedish House mafia gig, but last year’s Oxegen festival.

Ed Miliband will set out a blueprint for fundamental reform of the British banking system today, including forcing the “big five” to sell up to 1,000 more branches to increase competition.

A THREE-YEAR-OLD child has been treated for alcoholism by staff at an NHS hospital.

I FIND disturbing the publicity given by your letters column (August 25) to an organisation calling itself ‘Mothers Alliance Ireland’ and websites trying to use scare tactics against the HPV vaccines.

A £50 (€61.05) penalty may have to be paid by parents of young cyclists in the North who do not wear safety headgear, it was revealed today.

DOCTORS on both sides of the Irish border have joined forces to call for an EU-wide approach to defuse the obesity “time-bomb” facing the continent.

BRITISH health chiefs are preparing to vaccinate the entire population against swine flu, it emerged yesterday, while Thailand has opened a pilot vaccine plant fearing “hundreds of thousands” of cases.

PARENTS were warned yesterday not to take their children to “swine flu parties” in the hope they will catch the disease now and build up immunity.

More than 1,500 men die from heart disease in the North each year, the British Medical Association warned today.

Women considering an abortion must be offered counselling, it was claimed today.

PICTURES showing diseased livers should be put on bottles of alcohol to warn people of the dangers of binge drinking, doctors have said.

Supermarket giant Tesco today said it wanted to work with the British government on new laws to ensure the “responsible pricing” of alcohol.

The British government does not believe there is enough evidence to back changing the law on abortion, a health minister said today.

BRITISH hospitals are banning neckties, long sleeves and jewellery for doctors — and their traditional white coats — in an effort to stop the spread of deadly hospital-borne infections, according to new rules published yesterday.

Some of the suspects arrested in connection with the terror plots in London and Glasgow were known to MI5 before the attacks took place, it has emerged.

The smoking ban in the North’s pubs, restaurants and workplaces came into effect from midnight – three years after the rest of Ireland became the first European country to prohibit public smoking.

THUGS preying on NHS staff in the North carried out more than 5,000 attacks last year, it emerged yesterday.

DAPPLED in brilliant July sunshine, Tavistock Square is again a haven of tranquility in a city of constant turbulence, a few withered bouquets of flowers in a corner of its gardens are the only visible reminders of the horror which engulfed it one year ago tomorrow.

Public health doctors today demanded much greater cross-border cooperation to deal with the threat of bird flu hitting Ireland.

A BLANKET ban on smoking in pubs and private clubs in England and Wales was approved last night by a massive margin in the House of Commons.

FAMILIES of the victims of the July 7 London bombings were joined by political and religious leaders for a memorial service in the historic setting of St Paul’s Cathedral.

THE first thing that hit you was the silence. One of the world’s noisiest, most vibrant cities had fallen quiet, shocked by the horror unfolding before it.

RAJ MATTOO was standing at the street corner when the number 30 bus, travelling from Hackney to Marble Arch, exploded at Tavistock Square.

EXACTLY 30 minutes after the first bomb blast at Edgware Road, a bomb tore the roof off a red number 30 double decker bus packed with commuters forced above ground after the Tube network had been shut down.

MINUTES after the first blast ripped through Liverpool Street station, the emergency plan swung into operation. Hospitals were soon inundated with the hundreds of injured.

Doctors at the British Medical Association helped treat casualties after today’s bus explosion outside their headquarters.

A health minister said today he was keeping an open mind on the introduction of a full smoking ban in Northern Ireland by 2007.

GIRLS as young as 10 are being prescribed the contraceptive pill in Scotland, a study has found.

People in the North have just one month to say if they support a ban on public smoking, they were told today.

A Northern Ireland man who plunged to his death while climbing a mountain in New Zealand had told his family how lucky he was to have escaped the Asian tsunami, it emerged tonight.

An overwhelming number of children in Northern Ireland support a ban on smoking, a new report revealed today.

Doctors in the North are demanding the implementation of a workplace smoking ban similar to the one operating in the Republic.

ONE-in-10 Irish workers spend 60 to 80 hours a week working - the biggest proportion in the EU. Another 18% work between 45 and 59 hours a week.

A LARGE British pub chain announced significant steps towards a ban on smoking yesterday.