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Women's Health
Stories relating to women's health
Too young for screening: Woman with breast cancer at 46 urges others to check for lumps
Marie Keating Foundation encourages women to regularly self-check their breasts
Limerick woman (29) to have endometriosis surgery in Greece after disease spread to heart
Lisa Walsh was diagnosed with stage four endometriosis after almost a decade of seeking answers from medical professionals
Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh on the death of her sister Bríd: ‘You’re angry first, then it’s torture’
Bríd Ní Chofaigh died of cervical cancer aged 42. For her sister Bláthnaid, the death of a sibling is a life-changing event that isn’t spoken about enough
Women starting strength training midlife: ‘I had always associated exercise with losing weight and being skinny’
Women in their 40s, 50s and 60s are realising importance of keeping their bodies fit and strong as they age
Should every midlife woman be on HRT?
Positivity abounds around hormone replacement therapy, but is it a panacea for all ageing women?
Woman’s family ‘haunted’ by fear her death a day after miscarriage was preventable
Leona Cusack (33), from Shannon, Co Clare, died at University Hospital Limerick in 2024
Breast cancer: ‘We should have copped that the news was bad’
Hazel Brennan was ‘totally floored’ when she was told she would have to undergo a mastectomy as she had two types of cancer in her left breast
In hospital for my miscarriage surgery, I waited with two women checking in to give birth
There is compassion in good design. You wouldn’t have a wedding planner and an undertaker share a reception
Hazel Chu on her cancer diagnosis: ‘I came out of the scan, sat in reception and cried’
No matter how many people love you, inevitably you are alone when sick
Good news for breast cancer survivors who live in fear of recurrence
A recent paper has found risk of a second primary cancer is much lower than many patients believe
Gynaecological cancers: ‘What strikes me is how easy it would have been to dismiss that one symptom’
Many women delay or avoid GP visits due to embarrassment about discussing symptoms such as changes in vaginal discharge
Trauma made me stronger, but it also made me an overgiver - which can be toxic too
I’ve gone through my life believing my value is directly tied to what I can do for others and what they think of me
Fairytale of Forestside: The fourth circle of hell
Sandra Kavanagh’s narrator Margo is tormented while out shopping in Belfast
Gwyneth: The Biography review - Gwyneth Paltrow’s world is notoriously hard to break into. This book takes a shot
Paltrow never rises to the level of monstrous during this jog through the actor and wellness guru’s life
Fertility treatment and the workplace: ‘It’s a hugely personal thing to have to say’
Workplace issues ‘one of the biggest challenges’ for those undergoing IVF
From Savita Halappanavar to Anne Bonny: Damning indictment of the treatment of women through the ages shows its always been this way
Paul Muldoon and Kamala Sankaram’s new opera Custom of the Coast gives voice to Halappanavar and Bonny in powerful narratives that run alongside each other, until they collide unexpected ways
‘It will haunt me until the day I die’: Man jailed for raping pregnant partner
Up until his sentence hearing last week when he was taken into custody, the man had been employed by a local authority, the court heard
Brothers’ abuse of sisters was hidden in Dublin family for years
Three sisters were sexually abused by brothers in Rathfarnham home
Woman saving for home left with €15,000 medical bills due to endometriosis care gaps
Level of care in Ireland for ‘crippling’ condition that affects one in ten women ‘is not what it should be’
Living with endometriosis, a disease so horrible and painful, it has upended my life
Endometriosis is as common as diabetes and asthma, yet in Ireland it takes eight to 10 years to get diagnosed on average. It took me 28 years
Endometriosis in Ireland: What is it, and how is it treated?
The disease affects roughly 10 per cent of women and girls of reproductive age globally, according to the World Health Organisation
‘By the time we see couples, there is no hand-holding, let alone sex’: how to treat female sexual pain
The first step is to seek help in identifying the pelvic pain and managing a plan to treat it, experts say
Alanis Morissette: We thought that whole era of ‘size zero’ was done. We dropped the ball
Thirty years after the release of Jagged Little Pill in the 1990s, the singer-songwriter will play Dublin’s Malahide Castle this weekend
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
Relationships and ... menopause: ‘Small gestures of love can go a long way during this time of change’
Challenges associated with late-onset menopause can affect intimacy, communication and relationship dynamics
Long-term study links coffee to healthier ageing
People who drank seven small cups a day aged better than those who consumed minimal caffeine
The Sleep Room by Jon Stock: Could an Irish version of this frightening scandal in British psychiatry yet emerge?
A chillling account of psychiatrist William Sargent’s treatment of women patients in the 1960s
Leona Macken interview: ‘I want my children to look back and see how much I wanted to stay here’
The HSE apologised to Macken, who has incurable cancer, over ‘failings’ of two cervical smear tests
Woman who received HSE apology over cancer diagnosis failings encourages women to get a smear test
Leona Macken (38), who has stage 4 cancer, sued the HSE over ‘failings’ of two cervical smear tests
More than half of funded staff posts in endometriosis clinics unfilled, new figures show
Endometriosis is a chronic disease which affects about 10% of women and girls of reproductive age
Contraceptive pill pushback: ‘I think the demonising has gone too far’
Dr Hazel Wallace talks to The Women’s Podcast about periods, menstrual health and why women are turning away from the pill
An ode to the group chat, a lifeline for new mums
We mourn the loss of the ‘village’ in modern times, but I think the village begins elsewhere these days
Thrill-seeking in middle age: the spirit is willing but the pelvic floor is weak
Oh, how I wish I had listened when people were talking about the importance of doing Kegels
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