Ireland Health News API

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            "title": "'Concerning' delays starting cancer treatment in Ireland putting lives at risk as new stats shows 'slippage in access'",
            "description": "HUNDREDS of lives are at risk because of delays starting cancer treatment in Ireland.\nNew data for 2025 obtained by Sinn Fein shows that...",
            "content": "HUNDREDS of lives are at risk because of delays starting cancer treatment in Ireland.\nNew data for 2025 obtained by Sinn Fein shows that timeframes for chemotherapy and surgeries in many cases are not being met.\nAn alarming 15 per cent of chemotherap... [1911 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.thesun.ie/health/16714163/cancer-treatment-delays-ireland-sinn-fein/",
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            "title": "Number of cases in UK meningitis outbreak rises to 34 as students queue for third day for vaccines",
            "description": "NHS Kent and Medway said 5,794 vaccines had been administered, and 11,010 antibiotics handed out, in Kent as of Friday evening",
            "content": "The latest figures come as more than 400 people, students and others eligible, lined up outside the University of Kent campus clinic for meningitis jabs at the start of the weekend.\nNHS Kent and Medway said 5,794 vaccines had been administered, and 1... [355 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-41814377.html",
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                "name": "Irish Examiner",
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            "title": "Claire Byrne recalls being given the last rites after she contracted meningitis",
            "description": "She had an “intense, indescribable headache” during English prose class.",
            "content": "Olivia Kelleher\nNewstalk presenter Claire Byrne has revealed that she was given the last rites after she contracted bacterial meningitis at the age of fourteen.\nIn an interview with Newstalk Breakfast, Byrne said that the significant outbreak of meni... [5510 chars]",
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