A draft Health Service Executive (HSE) report on the Áras Attracta care home in Co Mayo is believed to have identified numerous issues including low morale and fraught relations between management and staff. The home was the controversial subject of an ... Read more →
A draft Health Service Executive (HSE) report on the Áras Attracta care home in Co Mayo is believed to have identified numerous issues including low morale and fraught relations between management and staff. The home was the controversial subject of an&nb... Read more →
Today is the last day for submissions to Wicklow County Council on new planning guidelines about the location of fast food outlets in relation to schools. The local authority is seeking submissions as part of a new obesity strategy. Greystones based group No Fry Zones For Kids ... Read more →
The number of complaints made about doctors to the medical regulator last year rose by 20 per cent, with complaints about poor communication up by some 40 per cent. In its annual report for 2015, the Medical Council revealed it received 369 complaints, compared to 308 the previo... Read more →
Up to one-third of children in Ireland who are in the early stages of type 1 diabetes are not being referred to hospital promptly enough, Diabetes Ireland has warned. The national diabetes charity is urging parents and healthcare professionals to make themselves familiar with the signs and symptoms... Read more →
Many women from Ireland who travel to England for a pregnancy termination at one of its main abortion providers are being referred to other clinics. It follows the suspension of some services at the Marie Stopes International chain of abortion clinics in the wake of a watchdog inspection. A ... Read more →
The risks of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may have been underestimated, experts have said. Women taking combined HRT to combat the effects of the menopause are more likely to develop breast cancer, with risk increasing the longer it is used, the study found. The new study, published in ... Read more →
The risk of death after stroke may be higher in people with anaemia, a new study has found. Anaemia is a condition caused by a lack of red blood cells. This means that the body's tissues and organs cannot get enough oxygen. General symptoms can include tiredness, dizziness, palpitations and a pale ... Read more →
Around 280 women in Ireland will be diagnosed with cervical cancer and some 90 will die from the disease in 2016, the Irish Cancer Society (ICS) has said. A further 6,500 women will need hospital treatment to remove pre-cancerous growths in their cervix, the society noted. It is holding two public... Read more →
Female athletes who suffer at least one concussion appear to experience long-term structural changes to the brain, researchers have found. According to the findings, brain images captured six months after the concussion showed structural differences in the corpus callosum - this is the structure th... Read more →
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