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  • Healthcare privatisation 'ludicrous', says expert

    Health costs: The privatisation of healthcare services will only result in additional costs being passed on to patients and their families, a UK professor who is due to speak at a conference in the Republic this week, has warned. p

  • Hospitals outside Dublin face massive deficits

    Financial analysis: Hospitals outside Dublin as well as those in the capital are facing potential multimillion euro deficits this year, according to new figures released by the HSE. p
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  • Consultants criticise report on A&E

    A&E units: Hospital consultants have criticised the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) over parts of its recent report on accident and emergency units around the country. p

  • Repayment money could be used to fund health services

    Illegal charges: Persons entitled to benefit from the Government's €1 billion repayment scheme for illegal nursing home charges will be allowed to decline the money and instead pass it on to pay for developments in the health service. p

  • Warfarin user campaigns for blood thickness self-monitoring

    Anti-coagulants: Ellen Feeney, who has been on the anti-coagulant - or blood-thinning - medication warfarin for over 20 years, believes the Government is missing an opportunity to save millions of euro and to save the estimated 40,000 other patients like her hundreds of hours. p

  • Number treated rises outside Dublin

    Drug use: The number of people being treated for problem drug use outside the greater Dublin area has risen dramatically in recent years, new figures show. p

  • Health ministers declare TB crisis

    Africa epidemic: African health ministers have declared a tuberculosis emergency, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced. p

  • Exercise could reduce impact of stress on immune system

    Research: Maintaining moderate exercise levels could reduce the impact that stress has on your health, according to a recent scientific review published last month in Exercise and Sport Science Reviews. p

  • Scheme to boost kidney donations

    Exchange project: Say you wanted to donate a kidney to a relative, but were not a match. Would you donate your kidney to a stranger who could use it, in exchange for a kidney from one of their relatives that was a match to your kin? p

  • In Short

    NURSES' OPEN DAY: St Vincent's University Hospital in Dublin will hold an open day on Saturday, September 3rd, in a bid to attract nurses who have left the career back to work, writes Elaine Edwards . p
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  • Keeping track of a highly adaptable flu strain

    A scientist's hunch from 40 years ago about the spread of influenza could provide the basis for a defence against a new pandemic. David Bro wn reports p

  • Another chance to experience male rite of passage rituals

    Males Ireland, the group which aims to help men find themselves, is hosting several seminars on male spiritual development. Adrienne Murphy reports p

  • Clamour of goblins and elves

    Heartbeat: Up the airy mountain Down the rushy glen We daren't go a-hunting For fear of little men. "The Fairies" - William Allingham This is a warning to a seriously bad goblin called Hobbs, who is greatly disturbing the tranquillity of our ruling elves. But more about this awful creature later on. p
Your HealthBack to Top

  • Is the end in sight for obesity and hunger pangs?

    San bushmen, Southern Africa's oldest inhabitants have always eaten the Hoodia succulent during arduous treks through the country's inhospitable interior to stave off hunger A small succulent which grows in the Kalahari Desert could be the answer to our obesity problems, reports Bill Corcoran in Johannesburg p

  • Disagreement of the brains

    That's men for you: You know the scene: you are with your wife and she meets her best friend whom she hasn't seen for a couple of weeks. p

  • Betting on your health

    Medical Matters: An American psychiatrist asked me recently: "How many gamblers do you have in Ireland?" He was not the kind of fellow to whom you could say "you have to be a bit of a gambler to survive here", so I told him I didn't know. p

  • Check-up

    Systemic Lupus Erythematosus p
Consumer HealthBack to Top

  • Deciphering the food code

    Anne Dempsey attends a conference on food labelling in a bid to understand what our food contains p

  • The enigma of our public health service

    SECOND OPINION: Prof Ivan Perry believes the concept of public health as a discipline committed to preventing disease and creating the conditions for a healthy society is poorly understood and is not adequately supported p

  • Finding our identity

    Mind Moves: It's a well-worn truism to say that Ireland of today is not what it used to be. Change has been so dramatic and so accelerated in recent years that we have a hard time grasping what has become of us. p
Your LifestyleBack to Top

  • Is your child's life just a blur of activity?

    Is the rise of after-school activities turning parents into taxi drivers and leaving children with no time just to play asks Sylvia Thompson p

  • Natural learning Shalini Sinha

    THE BIGGER PICTURE: Learning is a wonderful thing. It offers real opportunities for growth and happiness. When we feel free to be truly ourselves and pursue our fulfilment, we learn from everything we do, every moment of the day, every day of our lives. In this way, learning is the most rewarding experience of our lives, and it takes place most painlessly and naturally. p

  • My Kind of Exercise

    Sailor Mick Liddy tells Patricia Weston how he is preparing for his round-Ireland trip p
The Back PageBack to Top

  • Finding a new way to earn a crust

    Cara Lloyd with gingerbread men at the Corner Bakery in Terenure, Dublin, which she runs with her husband, Dave, formerly of the Bigh Cheese Company A New Life: Former teacher Cara Lloyd tells Sylvia Thompson she was finding the classroom less and less appealing p

  • Nanny lays down the law

    TVScope/Supernanny, Channel 4, Wednesday, August 24th, 9pm: Horrible children make good TV and none more so than the truly awful kids who turn up in Channel 4's Supernanny series. p

  • My Working Day

    Gary F Perry: co-ordinator of the Anatomical Gift Programme at University College Dublin's Department of Human Anatomy. p

  • On the Couch

    Eithne Boyan:  Managing director, Lundbeck Ireland. p

  • Lifelines

    Trinity College Dublin will host its first three-day summer school for deaf and hard of hearing students entering third level education from tomorrow. p
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