Ex-smokers are just as likely to develop lung cancer in later life as those who fail to stub out the habit.

ANY premature death is tragic. It is doubly so if the death might have been prevented.

TREATMENT and support services for diabetes sufferers in Ireland are inadequate and fall far below the standard of other EU countries, a top medic has claimed.

Cancer patients from around the country are travelling to Dublin today to protest against the closure of St Luke’s Hospital in Rathgar.