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Data from Scotland’s Covid vaccination programme has revealed a possible small increase in the risk of a treatable and often mild bleeding disorder af(...)

Swift action to cut methane, a greenhouse gas (GHG), would rapidly reduce the rate of global warming while boosting health and food production, a UN r(...)

The planet could have a year or less before first-generation Covid-19 vaccines are ineffective and modified formulations are needed, according to a su(...)

Social media platform TikTok has taken another step to safeguard users with the launch of its European Safety Advisory Council, which will advise on i(...)

Irish people were “willing agents” and often “enthusiastic accomplices to the excesses of colonialism”, President Michael D Higgins has suggested. Th(...)

South Africa has scrapped plans to use the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine because it “does not prevent mild to moderate disease” of the varian(...)

Efforts to control Covid-19 across Europe, including Ireland, have a serious flaw: the lack of workable rules that ensure people who must self-isolate(...)

There was, Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon wrote last week, “no single sentence that has made me happier to utter in nine long months than t(...)

“Having a degree in maths has been a real door-opener,” says Rebecca Kelly. The New York-based Kilkenny native was this month named tech evangelist o(...)

The world is in for a “brutal” experience over the winter months with Covid-19 but a corner will be turned by next March, a public health expert has s(...)