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NUI Galway is inviting the public, patients, carers, and the wider research community to attend the Sixth National Public and Patient Involvement in Research Conference on Wednesday, 28 April. The Conference will be an online event, running from 10am-1.45pm.

A Garda from Shrule, and a breast cancer survivor, Fiona Morgan-Coleman, has helped launch this year's 100k in 30 Days event, in aid of Breast Cancer Ireland

Local fashion and lifestyle blogger Geraldine Grealy is getting behind the Gorgeous Guna campaign for Cancer Care West and wants everyone to join in the fun and raise money for this very worthy charity.

The vaccination programme targeting the medically vulnerable, which was paused due to concerns about the AstraZeneca vaccine, got under way on Sunday morning at the mass vaccination centre at Galway Racecourse.

The Irish Cancer Society is urging the people of Athlone and its environs to get behind a very different Daffodil Day this year, with street sales and events not possible due to Covid-19 restrictions.

As a charity supporting people living with cancer daily, Cancer Care West is witnessing first-hand the toll the pandemic is taking on cancer patients and their families.

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Cancer Care West Launches Coping With Cancer Webinar

The chief executive of the Saolta University Health Care Group, which runs the local public hospitals in the west and north-west, says he would like to see greater quantities of the Covid-19 vaccine become available and for there to be more certainty around weekly deliveries of the product.

Usually at this time of year many of us want to adopt new healthy habits, or stop unhealthy habits, and begin the new year with a general focus on upgrading ourselves. This year we start with an unprecedented challenge - to maintain our physical and mental health in the face of spiralling Covid cases.