Ireland Health News API

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            "title": "Barbers may help prevent skin cancer",
            "description": "Could your barber help prevent skin cancer? A new study by the University of Portsmouth suggests that barbers could play a significant role in the early detection and prevention of skin cancer among men, opening a new community-based approach to tackling the U.K.'s most common cancer.",
            "content": "Could your barber help prevent skin cancer? A new study by the University of Portsmouth suggests that barbers could play a significant role in the early detection and prevention of skin cancer among men, opening a new community-based approach to tack... [3887 chars]",
            "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-barbers-skin-cancer.html",
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            "title": "'It would save so many lives': Cork woman calls for lung cancer screening programme",
            "description": "Lung cancer sufferer Gillian Ryan says it kills more people than bowel, breast and cervical cancer combined yet there is no national screening programme",
            "content": "Previous open calls led to the addition of two rare diseases to the screening programme.\nMs Ryan was diagnosed with lung cancer days after turning 40.\nAs a non-smoker and active sportswoman, the mother of two was shocked.\n“If there was a national scr... [1146 chars]",
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            "title": "My back pain landed me in A&E",
            "description": "AGONISING back pain and an itch so bad it kept her awake - it wasn't normal, and Sharon Jones knew it. But medics repeatedly misdiagnosed...",
            "content": "AGONISING back pain and an itch so bad it kept her awake – it wasn’t normal, and Sharon Jones knew it. But medics repeatedly misdiagnosed her.\nSharon, 56, says she was “made to feel like a nuisance” when she saw doctors. By the time the nan-of-five g... [7613 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.thesun.ie/health/17132947/cancer-misdiagnosis-pregnant-woman-picking-urns/",
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                "name": "The Irish Sun",
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