Today's other stories in brief
Are we ruled by our heads or our hearts?
No, it's not a question about love but about how the organs of our bodies interact to keep us healthy or to give us early signs of illness. It's the theme of a public talk by Prof Rose Anne Kenny, professor of geriatric medicine at Trinity College Dublin tomorrow at 7pm at 6 Kildare St, Dublin 2.
Prof Kenny is also the lead investigator of Technology Research for Independent Living (TRIL) and the recently launched Longitudinal Study of Ageing. Advanced booking on tel: 01-6334820.
Public meeting on breast cancer
The Irish breast cancer campaigning organisation, Europa Donna Ireland, is holding a public information meeting on Saturday at 1.30pm in Buswells Hotel, Molesworth St, Dublin 2.
Dr Áilis Ní Riain from the Irish College of General Practitioners will speak about what happens in practice and what ideally should happen to patients following treatment of breast cancer.
Tel: 01-4960198 for more details.
Seminar on disability support
The best ways of supporting young children with intellectual disabilities will be looked at in a series of half-day seminars in Mullingar and Dublin early next month.
Led by Ann Haig Wheeler, an early intervention specialist and mother of a child with Down syndrome, the seminars will focus on children up to three years old and those between three and six, in two separate sessions.
Cost is €75 per session/ €125 for couples. See www.downsyndromecentre.ie or tel: 01-661 8000 for more details.
Easing the symptoms of IBS
How to ease the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome is the theme of a public talk on Tuesday next at 7pm in the Brookfield Health Sciences Complex, College Road, University College Cork. Admission is free.
Two websites for healthy living
Two new websites which aim to help people live more healthily were launched yesterday.
The first, which is found at www.giveupsmoking.ie, is a new smoking cessation website set up by the Health Service Executive, and www.changeforlife.ie is a healthy eating and healthy lifestyle interactive site, promoted by dietitian Paula Mee.
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