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The pandemic is leaving in its wake perhaps millions of patients struggling with long-Covid, a debilitating illness marked by fatigue, malaise after a(...)

An official inquiry into stillbirths and neonatal deaths should be considered in order to enhance lessons that could improve care, according to the na(...)

Ireland has the lowest rate of multi-morbidity across four similarly profiled countries but the highest level of people suffering from osteoporosis, a(...)

One of the patterns that emerged during the Covid-19 crisis was poorer outcomes for overweight or obese patients. This may have come as a surprise to (...)

A global shortage of lithium – the metal mineral crucial for modern rechargeable battery design – may put the brakes on the development of new electri(...)

We hear a lot about the worldwide epidemic of obesity and consequent ill-health effects – diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol and more. A “norma(...)

The HSE has secured court orders permitting, if necessary, sedation and other treatments for a “profoundly malnourished” young woman whose life is at (...)

A bank has refused to release a mortgage loan to a woman seeking to buy a house over an issue connected to her mortgage protection policy. The woman (...)

About 29 million babies are delivered by Caesarean section (C-section) every year, making it the most frequently performed major surgery in the world.(...)

The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine may be less effective in people with obesity, data suggests. Italian researchers have discovered that healthcare workers (...)