13 ways to boost the health benefits of a holiday‘If you’re bringing small children, you’re not going on a holiday, you’re going on a trip’Mon Jul 22 2024 - 09:30
How a new system of medication management for homeless patients can improve insights - and add empowermentStreamlining and safeguarding of treatment of homeless patients upon their discharge into the community among projects funded for innovations in urban healthcareTue Jul 16 2024 - 06:01
Intergenerational learning: When the wisdom of age meets the wonder of childhoodAn innovative pedagogic move brings the young and old together in a win-win for everyoneTue Jul 02 2024 - 05:31
Where comic books meet healthcare: ‘We recognise that we need to communicate in different ways’A conference in Athlone will highlight how comics can be a powerful way to explain and understand illness and cureTue Jun 25 2024 - 06:01
How to spot if your child has a tick bite and what to doMost tick bites cause nothing more than skin irritation, but small percentage carry bacteria that can cause Lyme diseaseMon Jun 10 2024 - 06:01
After headaches, fatigue, brain fog, insomnia and sore throat, ‘it dawned on me – could it be the tick?’When Ann Marie Elliott’s son first fell ill, she presumed it was the flu. She recounts the ‘hard road’ she faced in getting him diagnosed with Lyme diseaseMon Jun 10 2024 - 05:31
Divorce in Ireland: ‘We did all our fighting at the separation stage’Whether hostile or amicable, rapid or attritional, divorce in Ireland has become complicated by the financial realities of the housing crisisSat Jun 08 2024 - 07:08
Eleven ways to let teenagers take healthy, positive risks this summerFrom encouraging them to use public transport to sending them on errands, here is what experts adviseTue Jun 04 2024 - 05:31
‘How do we grow if we don’t take chances?’: Letting children take risks is terrifying but beneficialSummer holidays are an ideal opportunity to let tweens and teens test themselves, experts sayTue Jun 04 2024 - 05:01
Patricia Carey: ‘I’ve had good experiences of being adopted, but that does not mean that adoption is not difficult’The newly appointed special advocate for survivors of institutional abuse brings an unshowy sense of determination to her missionTue May 21 2024 - 06:01
How Ireland drinks now: Teetotallers, wine-o’clockers and ex-drinkersMore people in Ireland are consuming alcohol at home, fewer are drinking in pubs and many aren’t drinking at allSat May 18 2024 - 06:00
‘It’s great to be able to do kidney dialysis in my sleep . . . I can live my life with this’Home treatment delivers distinct benefits for both patients and the health serviceMon May 13 2024 - 06:01
‘I bet you didn’t worry about your bills because all you cared about was whether you were safe’Women with Altitude encourages participants to challenge themselves in hiking and climbingTue May 07 2024 - 06:01
Twelve points to consider if your child seems to be academically or socially out of stepMove away from the stereotypes of learning difficulties, says author who has both personal and professional experience of themTue Apr 30 2024 - 05:31
‘Major vulnerabilities’ in Temple Street neonatal critical care, doctors warn managementDublin hospital is ‘failing to meet the specific needs’ of newborns requiring intensive care, doctors sayTue Apr 23 2024 - 06:00
Neonatal project allowed ‘to slip into abeyance . . . not by an active decision but through neglect and apathy’Dr Ann Hickey this month told management of Children’s Health Ireland she could no longer continue as neonatology lead due to inaction on outdated systems of careTue Apr 23 2024 - 05:31
What toddlers can teach the rest of us about wellbeingWe should stop calling this phase of life the ‘terrible twos’, as many toddlers’ traits are a formula for grown-up happinessTue Apr 16 2024 - 05:31
The husband and wife medics working to spread reliable parenting truths to counter the online noiseIt is time to push back against judging over breastfeeding and birthing, say medical coupleTue Apr 02 2024 - 05:31
Managing chronic disease: ‘It is one of the most positive things that has happened in the health service’Women with gestational diabetes have been added to a ‘game-changing’ HSE programme that focuses on a list of chronic conditionsTue Mar 26 2024 - 05:31
Remembering my husband Jonathan Irwin: ‘God help you if you were targeted because you couldn’t say no to him’Mary-Ann O’Brien remembers her husband and their time setting up and running the Jack and Jill Children’s FoundationTue Mar 19 2024 - 05:31
‘We never really knew the depths of the addiction he was in until things started to get really bad’A mother describes the lengths all of her family had to go to in order to help her son deal with his drug dependency so that they could begin to recover and get on with their livesTue Mar 12 2024 - 06:01
How do I spot if my child has ... a hip issue?Doctors check all newborns but these clinical examinations will miss someTue Mar 05 2024 - 06:01
‘Tide is turning more rapidly than ever in terms of obesity management’Disadvantaged groups, however, continue to be disproportionately affected by an overall rise obesity over the past 30-plus yearsTue Feb 27 2024 - 06:01
Living with obesity: ‘You would lose three stone in two weeks, but then in four weeks you would put 3½ back on’Having felt a sense of shame and failure for years, bariatric surgery proved life-changing for electrical contractor Joe MeadeTue Feb 27 2024 - 06:01
Take cold dips, eat protein and have more sex: 26 ways to age happily and healthilyWe can’t hold back the years, but we can influence the pace of our biological ageing and focus on the positivesSat Feb 24 2024 - 05:00
New fathers and mental health: ‘So much of the focus was on supporting my wife’Many men will struggle in the postnatal period but finding support can be difficultTue Feb 20 2024 - 05:31
Oesophageal cancer: ‘People definitely rally around when they think you are going to pop your clogs’Golfer Pádraig Harrington is proactive about raising awareness of oesophageal cancer, the incidence of which has grown about fourfold in the Western world in the last four decadesTue Feb 13 2024 - 05:31
A child with 9,339 seizures: ‘Don’t get too happy, don’t get too sad, don’t get too angry’Epilepsy: With every new referral, ‘we literally put on our detective hats and scrutinise the story’Wed Feb 07 2024 - 05:31
The importance of building up your fitness before surgeryA new prehabilitation initiative gives guidance to patients on how to improve their chances of having no complications and a faster recoveryTue Jan 30 2024 - 06:01
Why so many creches have been closing and what can be done about itDespite a slowdown in the rate of closures last year compared with 2022, any indication of continued shrinkage of childcare availability is a big concernTue Jan 16 2024 - 06:01
How do I spot if my child . . . has been poisoned?Most accidental encounters with toxic chemicals happen in the homeTue Jan 09 2024 - 05:31
Advances in technology offer ‘real hope’ to people living with chronic pain‘I wasn’t reaching so quickly for the pain relief medications in the afternoon; I didn’t feel I needed it’Tue Jan 09 2024 - 05:01
Lights, camera, gulp: No need to sugarcoat pill that’s a first for paediatric medicine in IrelandA swalloable camera that goes to areas of the gut scopes can’t reach is a step forward amid rising inflammatory bowel disease numbers in childrenTue Jan 02 2024 - 06:01
MS: ‘I was looking for someone to tell me it might not be as bad as you think’Andy Walsh received a diagnosis of the condition in 2020, just as Covid emergedThu Dec 14 2023 - 06:01
HSE chief Bernard Gloster interview: ‘Change in public service is complex, but not impossible’There is nothing flashy or bombastic about Gloster, whose entire career has been in the public service, but there is a steeliness in his blue eyes which suggests he is not to be messed withTue Dec 05 2023 - 06:01
When trying to navigate the Irish health system on behalf of a child leads to utter despairLooking back, the Shafqat family feels let down by Camhs and community servicesTue Nov 21 2023 - 06:01
Cardiovascular disease: The case for doing more on illness prevention, rather than just treatmentRethinking how to keep people well promises a ‘win win’ for the State and the individualTue Nov 14 2023 - 05:31
Community First Responders: ‘She thought we were angels that had dropped out of the sky’A network of volunteers speedily help save lives in incidents of heart attack, cardiac arrest and strokeTue Nov 07 2023 - 05:31
Not art therapy - but art with therapeutic benefitsArt can go a long way to break the shackles of lifelong health conditions endured by teenagersTue Oct 31 2023 - 06:01
‘I think when you are a transplant candidate, death kind of becomes a companion that you get used to’Kate Twohig faced the prospect of dying at 30, spent 23 months waiting for a liver transplant but now has a second chance at life that has left her grateful to the donorTue Oct 24 2023 - 06:01
Sandwich generation: ‘Working, raising their own families and caring for elderly parents’Many workers provide unpaid care for older relatives, but companies who flaunt family-friendly credentials often have in mind employees with young childrenSun Oct 22 2023 - 06:00
MND: ‘I think sometimes a slap in the face from life is a positive thing’ Andres Estevez Guersanik diagnosed with incurable, life-limiting disease at age of 43Wed Oct 18 2023 - 05:31
How do I spot if my child has meningitis?Symptoms can seem vague, but a rapid deterioration is the key sign to look out forTue Oct 10 2023 - 06:01
Meningitis: I always say ‘my mum’s knowledge saved me’James Patrice and Quinn McGovern both had meningitis when very young. Here are their experiencesTue Oct 10 2023 - 05:31
Assisted dying: ‘I do not want to end my days as a lost soul in a nursing home’One couple’s story of four years from dementia diagnosis to assisted deathTue Sept 26 2023 - 09:37
‘The first thing I thought of was, I can’t play soccer any more ... I wanted to play for Ireland’Young survivors need medical and psycho-social support to cope with ‘payback’Tue Sept 19 2023 - 05:31
‘I would be dead now if it hadn’t been for the hospice’Palliative care is an additional layer of support for people with life-limiting conditions, with early referrals tending to do betterWed Sept 13 2023 - 06:01
Life after cancer: ‘Every day I was saying I should be back to normal, and I wasn’t’National programme offers cancer survivors a lifeline for moving on after treatmentTue Sept 05 2023 - 05:31
‘This is the hardest year ever to try to find staff’, says owner of early childcare centreClosures of early childhood education and care centres outnumbered those opening and providers have long waiting listsThu Aug 31 2023 - 22:31
More preschools close over lack of staff as Government urged to ‘completely rethink’ approachLatest Tusla figures show early childhood care centres are growing more scarce, particularly in some parts of the countryThu Aug 31 2023 - 19:00
