Health Research Board

Minister for Health Simon Harris is considering a ban on unvaccinated children attending creches and other forms of pre-school after receiving legal a(...)

Junior minister Catherine Byrne has said Dublin City Council “missed the bigger picture” by not granting planning permission for the State’s first sup(...)

Proposals to introduce mandatory vaccination schemes in schools may be “challenging to do legally,” according to preliminary advice from the Attorney (...)

For decades, the State has been in a demographic sweet spot. Among the raw fuels for Ireland’s economic catch-up phase, which stretched from the early(...)

A lot of your research focuses on evidence in healthcare. Why? “In health, we want everything we do to be backed up by evidence, rather than doing thi(...)

Benzodiazepines are a family of drugs used in the short-term treatment of problems with sleep and anxiety. When first approved for use, their potentia(...)

1) A “Virtual Dementia Tour” will be brought to five locations this month as part of Carers Week 2019. The free tour is aimed at providing visitors wi(...)

The number of people seeking treatment for cocaine addiction increased by over 30 per cent in a year and almost doubled since 2011, figures published (...)

Women’s drinking habits are becoming more similar to men’s with more than two-thirds of women who presented to the State’s alcohol treatment services (...)

Readers will be familiar with my use of terms such as systematic review and meta-analysis when describing medical research. They are very much the lin(...)