Ireland is facing a “skin cancer epidemic”, the Irish Cancer Society (ICS) has warned.

Women can have confidence in the national cervical screening programme, the Department of Health’s chief medical officer, Dr Tony Holohan, has said.

The Press Ombudsman Peter Feeney has described the possibility that emails at Independent News & Media (INM) were accessed by an external company as “deeply disturbing”.

The Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) will investigate whether personal data was accessed in the alleged data breach at Independent News and Media (INM).

A national review of hospital parking charges by the HSE is expected to be completed by the summer.

A doctor at Wexford General Hospital, 13 of whose patients were diagnosed with cancer after he had given them the all-clear, was allowed continue working for a year-and-a-half after a colleague first raised concerns about his colonoscopies.

The highest recorded number of women have been screened for breast cancer in Ireland.

The country is facing a "cancer epidemic" with rising numbers of people being diagnosed with the disease, a leading health charity has warned.

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Almost a third of young people are overweight or obese, and most are not trying to slim down, a survey has found.

Spending on health has been increased by €685m, bringing total funding to almost €15.3bn for 2018, reflecting an almost 5% increase, the minister said.

A “bizarre anomaly” that places sunbed sessions in the same goods and services tax category as yoga studios and beauty salons must be addressed says the Irish Cancer Society.

If you are a parent of one of the 30,000 girls who will be offered the vaccine in September, you are right to inform yourself, but do so from trusted scientific sources, writes Alison O’Connor.

Urgent action is needed to address the fact that the number of girls getting the HPV vaccine has fallen to 50%.

Bowel cancer rates for men are double that of women yet fewer men than women are using the free detection service, it has emerged.

The enforcement of standardised tobacco packaging is “another significant milestone” towards having a tobacco-free Ireland by 2025, the Irish Cancer Society said yesterday.

A national campaign by the Irish Cancer Society failed to persuade hospitals to offer cancer patients free or subsidised parking.

A national campaign by the Irish Cancer Society failed to persuade hospitals to offer cancer patients free or subsidised parking.

Smoking is the cause of almost 3,000 cancer deaths in Ireland each year.

The Irish Cancer Society says it has full confidence in the National Bowel Screening Programme and urges people to use the life-saving service.

Tobacco companies have lost their legal challenge against new cigarette plain-packaging rules in Britain.

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New EU rules on tobacco products have been judged to be valid following three separate challenges, paving the way for countries to proceed with standardised packaging.

More than 90% of GPs can refer patients with suspected cancers directly for diagnostic tests if those patients can pay privately, but the proportion slumps to just 10% of some cancers if the patients have to go on public waiting lists.

The Irish Cancer Society is failing to reach people with low education levels, older people and immigrant populations, a report has found.

People under the age of 18 will be banned from using sunbeds from Monday under measures announced by Health Minister Leo Varadkar

Breast cancer researchers have appealed for funding to allow them fully probe their discovery that common pain relief and anaesthesia techniques could hamper patients’ treatment.

The Irish Dairy Board has secured a five-year, €420m syndicated bank facility with AIB, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, HSBC, Rabobank, and Ulster Bank.

Poorer people are up to 70% more likely to get some cancers.

Men are more likely than woman to die from all types of cancer, researchers have revealed.

A leading charity is going into communities with “worryingly high” cancer-related deaths in a bid to reduce the disease risk.

Independent News & Media’s group chief financial officer Donal Buggy is to leave the group on Oct 5, to pursue other interests.

The Cape Town-based investment company Sekunjalo Holdings is expected to lodge a formal offer for the South African publishing assets of Independent News & Media “shortly”.

Independent News & Media (INM) is seeking legal advice to determine whether it can co-opt new members to its depleted board, without having to wait several weeks to hold a shareholder vote.

The growing power shift at Independent News & Media took a firm hold yesterday with prominent directors — chairman James Osborne and chief financial officer Donal Buggy — being voted off the board at the group’s AGM.

The chairman of the board of Independent News and Media has been voted off at todays AGM in Citywest in Dublin.

IRISH media giant, Independent News & Media (INM) has de-consolidated its shareholding in Australian media group, APN, by lessening its influence on the company’s board of directors.

Brett Chenoweth has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer of APN News & Media, one of the largest media groups in Australisia in which Independent News & Media (INM) has a 31.6% shareholding.

INDEPENDENT News & Media (INM) is confident of reaching a repayment or refinancing agreement regarding its €200 million bond within the next five weeks, after being granted an extension to its deadline, as expected, yesterday.