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	Schools and sports clubs will start keeping devices like epipens for allergic reactions</p>
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	Trained members of the public are to be allowed give life-saving medicines in emergency situations.</p>
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	Vital treatments like epipens, for allergic reactions, are to be kept on hand in places like schools and sports clubs.</p>
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	The new rules signed by the Health Minister will also give pharmacists permission to administer vaccines against shingles and pneumonia - saving patients a trip to the doctor.</p>
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	The Irish Independent says the mother of teenager Emma Sloane - who died from a peanut allergy on O&#39;Connell St nearly two years ago - has welcomed the new legislation.</p>
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	<a href="http://www.newstalk.com/Trained-public-will-be-allowed-give-lifesaving-medicine">http://www.newstalk.com/Trained-public-will-be-allowed-give-lifesaving-medicine</a></p>
