Health Research Board

One person died of cocaine overdose every week in 2017, according to latest figures which highlight a rise in deaths related to the drug’s use. Data(...)

The Government should ban all e-cigarette advertising in forthcoming Dáil legislation after a report found that e-cigarettes damage the brain, heart, (...)

Criminal intimidation within the Traveller community is causing “havoc” for an increasing numbers of Traveller families, a community worker has warned(...)

Record numbers of people in the State are seeking treatment for cocaine use, with an unprecedented 50 per cent surge in new cases last year. Demand f(...)

According to the Health Research Board’s newsletter, cocaine use has now “returned to Celtic Tiger levels in Ireland”. It is an assertion that will c(...)

Alcohol is a factor in more than half of all fatal fires in homes in Ireland, according to a new study by the Health Research Board. The research, w(...)

It took just one new mother to say out loud that she was “so tired” and within minutes all those around her were in tears. “It was a really special m(...)

Minister for Health Simon Harris has said he will not meet representatives of the vaping industry, whom he accused of trying to “hook” young people on(...)

Sexual health education has come a long way from when I was at school, fighting for the row of seats at the back of the classroom, avoiding eye contac(...)

A young Dublin man who died a year ago next week, while suffering with chronic addiction and mental illness, could be alive if health services had had(...)