Doctors and scientists need to get better at translating science into knowledge that people need, said Mike Ryan. File photograph: EPA

The Covid-19 pandemic’s impact on mental health “has not been counted yet” but will have an effect “for many years to come”, the World Health Organisa(...)

A pulse oximeter is placed on a person’s finger to measure the oxygen level in the blood. Photograph: iStock

Get an oximeter, wash out your nose and sleep on your front . . . A doctor’s advice on how to manage a mild case of Covid-19 at home The guidanc(...)

Dr Denis Shields, UCD;  specialises in  working out the  make-up of small proteins, or peptides, that enable Covid-19 to attach to its host cell.

Small proteins that help Covid-19 infect human cells and respond to existing drug therapies have been identified by scientists in new findings that pa(...)

Prof Luke O’Neill says there is a “risk” the number of deaths per day could rise to 100 or higher.

The daily number of Covid-deaths will “inevitably” increase and could rise “exponentially” in coming weeks as numbers dying from the illness catch up (...)

A brain tissue sample from a patient with a rare form of early onset dementia known as leukoencephalopathy. Credit: Trinity College Dublin

Scientists at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) have discovered mutations associated with early onset dementia that may lead to better understanding of how(...)

  Twenty-three residents of Dealgan House died in a coronavirus outbreak. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

Relatives of residents who died in a coronavirus outbreak at a Dundalk, Co Louth, nursing home are to meet HSE chief executive Paul Reid to discuss th(...)

Mary Hernandez, president of Letterkenny Institute of Technology student union. Photograph: Joe Dunne

On any given day, Mary Hernandez sees the financial struggles facing students at Letterkenny Institute of Technology (LYIT) up close. “Huge numbers h(...)

Trinity College Dublin has the highest proportion of students from affluent areas, at 36%. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

The class gap in higher education is revealed in new figures that show affluent students dominate high-points courses such as medicine, finance and en(...)

The prevalence of sexual violence varied between sexes with one in five women reporting being raped, compared with one in 10 men. Photograph: iStock

The true number of people who experience sexual violence in Ireland is likely to be “considerably higher” than studies show due to a difficulty in def(...)

Members of the Irish Doctors Choir participating in rehearsals via Zoom.

Choirs became one of the first groups advised to stop meeting in person when the Covid-19 pandemic began to spread across Europe in February and March(...)

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