Jack Lambert

Fifty days after nursing homes closed to visitors – with management acting themselves and not at the State’s direction – health officials are only now(...)

A Cork nursing home has become the first in the country to pilot an innovative piece of remote temperature checking software that can detect early Cov(...)

Six days before the first confirmed coronavirus death in the country, the national body representing private and voluntary nursing homes announced it (...)

Beaumont Hospital is treating 137 confirmed coronavirus patients, over a third more than any other hospital, according to latest Health Service Execut(...)

Delays in testing for Covid-19 are leading to patients being treated late and pressures on intensive care, a leading infectious disease consultant has(...)

Ireland’s health service remains on high alert for a case of the new coronavirus after the first two people diagnosed with the disease in the UK were (...)

Disease elimination is the holy grail of public health, a goal rarely achieved and often difficult to maintain. The eradication of smallpox globally,(...)

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(...)