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A pilot wearing a protective suit parks a cargo aircraft at Wuhan Tianhe International Airport on Tuesday. Photograph: Cheng Min/Xinhua via AP

Coronavirus: Chinese citizens in ‘self-isolation’ after returning to Ireland

China willing to ‘facilitate’ evacuation of Irish citizens from country, embassy says

Life expectancy at birth is 80.4 years for men and 84 years for women, the smallest gap between the sexes since the 1950s. Photograph: Eric Luke

Women living longer than men – but only by three years

Gap in life expectancy between sexes has started to narrow, new statistics show

In 2016, 736 people died in Ireland from drug-related causes, the fourth-highest rate in Europe. Photograph: iStock

Plans to create new drugs helpline for people living with addiction

Minister for Health asks HSE to create new service similar to Frank helpline in UK

Ireland is the fourth heaviest drinking nation in the OECD, with more than half of adult drinkers classified as harmful drinkers

Harris asks media to stop using alcohol industry-funded resources

Minister for Health says public should be directed to HSE for trusted information on alcohol

Consequences of climate change, such as flooding, extreme temperatures and wildfires, will pose a number of challenges to public welfare. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw / The Irish Times

Climate change will impact people’s health, expert says

Specialist in public health medicine warns of increase in lung diseases and skin cancer

Minister for Health Simon Harris said the health trend figures helped to show ‘where things are going well and where we need to improve’. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

Suicide rate fell by over a third in past decade

Health trends show improvement in life expectancy and high perception of good health

A discarded methadone bottle in Dublin city centre. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw

Numbers using methadone soared over past decade, figures show

Use of medication to treat heroin addiction up more than 600% in some counties

The HSE chief executive said he wanted to put in place a “properly distributed system of delegated authority” from executive management level down to local management. Photograph: Getty Images

Failure to disclose errors should mean sanctions, says HSE chief

Employees who make a ‘full and frank’ disclosure of a clinical error must not be subjected to ‘unjust sanctions’

The HSE says the average time it takes to complete treatment in an injury unit is two hours. Photograph: iStock

Minor injury unit fees drop to €75 in effort to relieve A&E overcrowding

Facilities in 11 locations treat broken bones, sprains, minor burns in adults and children

Central Mental Hospital, Dundrum, Dublin: The commission has been calling for legislation to ensure the laws governing the physical restraint of individuals are fit for purpose. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

Patient kept in seclusion for 111 hours in Central Mental Hospital

Report is highly critical of the use of restrictive practices in mental health units

The alert was issued by the Food Safety Authority on Saturday.

Pesto sauces recalled over fears of unaccounted peanuts

Products, made by Salca, deemed health risk to anyone who may have peanut allergy

Staff at the Rotunda Hospital in Dublinhave raised the money for a new heart ultrasound machine for extremely premature babies through an online initiative. File photograph: Getty.

Rotunda ultrasound machine appeal passes €76,500 target

Hospital staff started GoFundMe campaign as money to replace machine not available

Almost two-thirds of studies of nitrite-containing processed meat found a link with cancer, QUB researchers found. Photograph: Anthony Devlin/PA Wire

Nitrite-free meats have lower cancer risk, study suggests

Advice should be revised as ‘not all processed meat has same risk’, say researchers

Dr Mel Bates said another problem was the “collapse” of the same day service for patients in general practice. “People are choosing not to wait until they get an appointment with their own GP and they’re coming to out-of-hours.” Photograph: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times

Parents Googling children’s symptoms leading to ‘slammed’ GP services

Eight people have died due to flu-related illnesses so far this season; more than 300 admitted to hospital in last week alone

Rotunda staff ’not seeking to criticise Government for lack of funding. File photograph: Cyril Byrne

Rotunda’s heart ultrasound machine ‘must be replaced in four to six months’

Consultant’s warning comes after staff from neonatal unit started online campaign to raise funds for new machine

The number of trolleys exceeds the safe number, fire officers said. File photograph

Fire officers have ‘serious concern’ about safety of Limerick hospital

Hospital warns of ‘threat to life and limb’ if services curtailed

A lack of space in the State’s busiest maternity hospital is increasing the risk of infection and putting the lives of newborns at risk, the hospital’s master, Prof Fergal Malone, says. File photograph: Cyril Byrne

Rotunda staff resort to online fundraising for equipment

Staff using GoFundMe page because ‘Government funding is not available’

Prof Henry Kitchener, lead assessor with the Royal College of Gynaecologists and Obstetricians, at today’s meeting of the Oireachtas health committee. Photograph: Oireachtas/PA Wire

Mislabelling of Phelan and Walsh’s smear test slides a ‘remarkable coincidence’

Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists defends its review of CervicalCheck

The study says bacteria often found in the lungs became more harmful and caused increased inflammation when they were exposed to e-cigarette vapour. Photograph: Eva Hambach/AFP/Getty Images

Vaping ‘as bad as cigarettes’ for exposing users to bacterial lung infections

Study first to compare effect of cigarette smoke and e-cigarette vapour on lung bacteria

Northern Secretary Julian Smith had previously ruled out seeking additional funding for healthcare from the British government. Photograph: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Warning of ‘major challenges’ as nurses and paramedics go on strike in North

About 9,000 nurses to stage 12-hour stoppage on Wednesday over pay and staffing

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