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Nine out of 10 people in the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown area reported their health as being good or very good, the highest in the State, according to the CSO. Photograph: Cyril Byrne People in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown area report best health

Census shows difference in professional and unskilled workers’ perceptions of health

Heel prick  test to detect PKU. Photograph: Simon Fraser/Science Photo Library Drug for PKU to be withheld by HSE on cost grounds

Kuvan is the only drug treatment for rare metabolic ‘heel prick test’ disorder

 Detective Superintendent Ashley O’Sullivan; Dr Lorraine Nolan, chief executive of the Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA); Heath Minister Simon Harris and Esther Keating from the Revenue’s Customs Service pose with illegal medicines seized. Photograph: Niall Carson /PA Wire Seizures of illegal prescription drugs rise 233% in a year

Garda and Customs operation results in 11-fold jump in sedative seizures

Schools should not offer meals containing foods and drinks high in fat, salt and sugar and will not receive funding for these if they do, according to the new nutrition standards. File photograph: Getty Images Ban on high sugar, fat and salt foods ahead for school meals plan

Schools will not get funding for less healthy foods, according to new nutrition standards

The new mobile catheterisation lab at University Hospital Waterford. Photograph: Patrick Browne ‘Wanderly Wagon’: Mobile cath lab finally arrives in Waterford

Lab will clear diagnostic backlog, but 24/7 cardiac unit still needed, say campaigners

New online test will help detect early signs of dementia

GPs specialising in dementia will provide the online service

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said that “antimicrobial resistance is a global health emergency”. Photograph:  Julien Behal/PA Wire The world is running out of antibiotics, WHO warns

Growing resistance could ‘seriously jeopardise’ progress made in modern medicine

At the opening of the  Trinity Centre for Excellence in Ageing and Intellectual Disability, sisters Kathleen Ely and Margaret Shanahan from Thurles. Photograph: Mark Stedman TCD opens Centre for Ageing and Intellectual Disability

IDS-Tilda underpins Ireland’s status as world leader in intellectual disability and aging research

Sleep has more of an impact on your health than a 50% pay rise

Study shows amount of sleep impacts on feeling of wellbeing

A dog outside a  shop on Dublin’s Dame Street in Dublin. File photograph: Frank Miller Owners of sick dogs more likely to suffer from stress and anxiety

Study finds ‘caregiver burden’ also applies to animal owners

TCD scientists discover how ‘natural killer’ cells target cancer

Findings may explain why people with obesity have impaired capacity to fight disease

Majella O’Donnell at the launch of the Irish Cancer Society’s  breast-cancer fundraising campaign “Cups Against Cancer” on Monday Breakthrough allows identification of resistance to breast cancer treatment

Early detection development by Irish researchers enables different strategy to be put in place

Consultant recruitment has led to a nine-year waiting list for an outpatient appointment at University Hospital Waterford Ireland’s ailing health service: What consultants say

Extracts from group’s submission highlight long wait times and management problems

Cancelled operations: elective surgery fell 54 per cent between 2012 and 2016, according to the Irish Hospital Consultants Association. Photograph: E+/Getty Billions required to repair healthcare system, consultants say

Patients at one hospital wait up to nine years to see doctor, according to submission to Government

Central Mental Hospital, Dundrum: Staff at Portlaoise prison have expressed concern prisoners in “dire” need of the CMH have been left on a waiting list so long.  Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Bed capacity in the Central Mental Hospital at ‘critical’ level

Waiting list of 29 for CMH, 20 of whom are referrals from Irish Prison Service

The Irish Hospital Consultants Association warned key targets in relation to cancer care were  being missed. Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire Irish hospitals ‘beginning to fail’, senior doctors warn

Consultants’ group says Government needs to invest more than €5bn into health system

Isabel Terry from Cork on her way to Newcastle for a double heart and lung transplant. Photograph: Life on the List Facebook page Cork woman in UK for heart-and-lung operation after 15-year wait

Isabel Terry told this morning that a match for her has been found

A recent residents’ protest in relation to Apple’s office expansion in Cork. Sinead O’Mahony described the noise from the Apple works as “like a form of torture”. Apple’s Cork works adversely affect boy with autism, mother claims

Noise from expansion works affecting wellbeing of boy with Asperger’s, mother says

Venous thromboembolism: the umbrella term includes conditions such as pulmonary embolism, when a blood vessel in the lungs becomes blocked. Photograph: BSIP/UIG Via Getty Mater doctors lead drive to reduce clot-related hospital deaths

Venous thromboembolism is third-largest cause of cardiovascular death

HSE examines plan to move South Tipperary Hospital to different group

Under proposals facility would move to University of Limerick group

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