Health takes a back seat when working and raising young children. We just get on with it
Women’s health in work: When you are working and raising young children, you have little time to think about your own health or your physical and mental needs
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How St Stephen’s Green went from a mucky marsh to Dublin’s most famous square in 400 years
Roaming pigs and geese, the obnoxious Whaley family, one of Ireland’s first Michelin stars and ‘shocking destruction’ of the city’s built heritage from the 1960s ... the green has seen it all
Doctor burnout: New support for exhausted medics
Prof Dorothy Breen has set up coaching and mentoring service by doctors for doctors
Woman whose son developed cannabis addiction and psychosis before taking his own life warns parents over drug
He was a bright student, but marijuana changed his personality and damaged his brain, says mother
Teens presenting at EDs with psychosis from legal, semi-synthentic cannabis vaping product, says leading psychiatrist
Mary Cannon says parents are bearing brunt as they see children ‘change before their eyes’
Delving into the power of DNA for patients
Research Lives: Dr Laura Whelan, post-doctoral researcher, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
Mobile scanners to bring lung health checks directly to communities in north Dublin and northeast
Coolock woman says if her cancer diagnosis was not caught as early as it was her prognosis would have been a lot worse
People with chronic conditions forced to reduce basic living expenses to afford health costs, says study
Research from RCSI highlights financial difficulties facing those with chronic health conditions.
CAO 2025: A guide to some lesser-known courses
From a bar management apprenticeship to a BA in content creation
Pipeline of new hospital development projects not sufficiently strong, Varadkar says
Former taoiseach and minister for health says about 500 additional beds need to be provided annually to keep up with population growth
Grade inflation falls at Irish universities following concern over integrity of degrees
Fewer students awarded first-class degrees but proportion of high achievers is 40% higher than in 2015
Book on NUI graduates involved in first World War launched in Dublin
Volume includes a selection of individual personal profiles to bring the men recorded in the roll to life
Medics must be trained to recognise signs of human trafficking, conference told
US ambassador says lack of training leads to neglect of the most vulnerable in society
Seamus Cotter had few lung cancer symptoms. ‘The diagnosis was a bit of a surprise’
At-risk patients in Louth and north Dublin will be the first to benefit from a new ‘lung NCT’
University open days: when they take place and what makes each university unique
Key details about 2024-2025 open days for UCC, UCD, TCD, UL, Maynooth University, University of Galway, DCU and RCSI
Trinity College Dublin drops five places to 139th in world university rankings
Of the nine Irish universities ranked five dropped, three remained in same position, and one, Dublin City University, improved
‘We’re facing huge issues at the moment keeping kids in school’: Meet three Irish groups making a difference to young people’s lives
Not everyone gets the same start in life, but some organisations are doing their best to address disadvantages
‘What’s up with the dude wall?’ Rows of portraits of men should have no place in Irish education
The problem with academic portraiture is that it sustains the myths of meritocracy and obscures privilege
Artist Donald Teskey: ‘When teacher praised my drawing, it was the first time I was aware of myself as a person’
The winner of the 2024 Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Art Award shows how art, nature, medicine and wellbeing intertwine
Ukrainian women who moved to State since 2022 having difficulty accessing sufficient medical support, notes study
Research carried out among more than 675 respondents by Ukrainian medical sociologist
Josephine Bartley obituary: A driving force in the elevation of nursing in Ireland
Beaumont Hospital’s first nursing director was ‘a wonderful nurse leader and role model who always put the sick person first, not the system’
Adults with cerebral palsy in Ireland face a lifelong battle for support
The challenges that adults in Ireland with cerebral palsy face expose gaps in our healthcare system that need to be addressed
People living with HIV refused surgery or put last on waiting lists, research shows
Just 42 per cent of healthcare workers and 27 per cent of healthcare students surveyed by RCSI said they received education on HIV stigma and discrimination
Major part of €104m package to be used to scale-up research on neurological diseases in Ireland
Minister for Agriculture declines to comment on investigation of Science Foundation Ireland chief executive Prof Philip Nolan
It’s not quite Grey’s Anatomy but a career in medicine can be very rewarding
Directly improving patient well-being can be a very rewarding career.
Investment of €104m in four Science Foundation Ireland centres to be announced
Money will fund 600-plus research roles in bioeconomy, agrifood, neurological disease and advanced manufacturing
‘Toxic’ chemicals in flavoured vapes could lead to ‘wave of chronic diseases’ in future, researchers say
RCSI team used AI modelling to predict hazards created as flavouring is heated for inhalation
Irish hospitals received over €2m in ‘education’ payments from medical device industry
Ireland 15th highest recipient of payments from medical device industry, research finds
Irish team develops therapy for deadly sepsis crisis
Inthelia Therapeutics, founded by two top Irish scientists, is switching focus to block infection getting a grip on patients in the first place
‘I felt I am not a full woman ... because I can’t face society with one breast’
A project designed by the RCSI aims to improve survival rates for women in Malawi diagnosed with breast cancer
Cerebral Palsy: ‘It is tough hearing that news, but it is far tougher when you have to fight for the best care for your child’
The Irish Cerebral Palsy Foundation’s programme of excellence aims to achieve diagnosis within three months
‘Coffin tablet’: Renewed calls for prescription drug feared to be ‘new OxyContin’ to be reclassified
Pregabalin is licensed in Ireland to treat epilepsy, nerve pain and general anxiety disorders and has been implicated in many postmortems
Most things you’ve heard about eating meat are wrong, say Irish scientists
Risks are associated with eating too much meat but some nutritional claims are based on flawed data, say two of Ireland’s leading food and diet specialists
Aim of next-generation biomaterials is to train human tissue to heal itself
Researchers are working to develop implantable tissue to treat cartilage damage and osteoarthritis
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