World Health Organisation

You almost have to admire the ballsiness of the Sunbed Association. They came out swinging this week after a Budget Day announcement of a VAT increase(...)

A new report showing the Republic ranks 58th out of 200 countries for its proportion of overweight young people is another reminder of the ongoing pub(...)

Every year about this time, the conversations start about how to avoid and/or cope with colds and flu over the winter months. Taking regular exercise,(...)

The Catholic Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, Phonsie Cullinan, has renewed his attack on the HPV vaccine, despite a warning by the HSE that he is end(...)

The controversial Gardasil vaccine against cervical cancer is “only 70 per cent safe”, a Catholic bishop has suggested. Bishop Phonsie Cullinan, Bish(...)

The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) latest warning that “antimicrobial resistance is a global health emergency” is one of the starkest it has ever i(...)

On Friday, the official State commemoration of the centenary of the death of Thomas Ashe takes place in Glasnevin cemetery. Ashe, the Easter Rising (...)

Three-quarters of pregnant women in Ireland are becoming overweight by eating too much of the wrong kind of foods, which are lacking in essential vita(...)

Research into the impact of whey on people’s diets could play a major role in the battle against the global obesity epidemic. The research team, led b(...)

In the early hours of a Friday morning in August, aid workers staying in a United Nations compound in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria, were woken by the (...)