Jack Lambert

Almost 100 people across the State have suffered from life-changing conditions as a result of Lyme disease over a six-year period, new figures show. (...)

A bug that causes a rare form of relapsing fever has been identified in a tick collected in Ireland for the first time. The bug, a strain of Borrelia(...)

Organisers of the State’s first resource centre for Lyme disease had to change the venue for the launch after the Mater Hospital objected to the use o(...)

The State’s first centre for Lyme disease is to open this month, amid continuing controversy over the way the condition is diagnosed and treated. The(...)

Members of the public planning to see Pope Francis at events in Dublin and Knock this month may be hoping for some spiritual healing. But due to the(...)

Dublin 6-19 Kilkenny 7-12 Dublin delivered a wonderful performance in accounting for Kilkenny by four points in their enthralling Electric Ireland Le(...)

It is disconcerting being at a public event with a group of people, most of whom are suffering from an illness that they feel is misunderstood, and of(...)

Innovative new screening programmes have uncovered high levels of hepatitis C among the prison and homeless populations. Doctors say the results show(...)

Homeless people with drug problems are being left to die of hepatitis C because of a failure to provide lifesaving new treatments on the street, docto(...)

You visit your doctor. The bad news is: you have a virus in your body, which, if left unchecked, could cause serious damage to your liver, maybe kill (...)