John Crown

Digital health start-up Akkure Genomics has easily surpassed its €500,000 crowdfunding campaign target, just days after launching the initiative. The(...)

Almost 150,000 fewer people have attended Ireland’s main cancer screening services in the first half of the year due to a reduction in non-Covid relat(...)

“You may not like this system but grumbling about it is a waste of time. A luxury you cannot afford.”– How To Cheat In the Leaving Cert (1997). It’s (...)

Cancer campaigner Vicky Phelan has said that doctors are going to be faced with harsh decisions during the Covid-19 crisis and that if a doctor had to(...)

Why is Covid-19 a big risk for people with cancer? The Covid-19 pandemic is immensely challenging and distressing for people with cancer, but also fo(...)

Motorists should avoiding speeding amid reduced road congestion during the coronavirus pandemic to shield overburdened hospitals from road traffic inc(...)

The number of confirmed coronavirus patients in the Republic has risen to 785 after 102 newly discovered cases were confirmed on Saturday evening. Th(...)

The Government is considering a proposal under which it could pay up to three-quarters of the wages of thousands of staff who have been laid off as a (...)

The HSE is stocking up on new ventilators to prepare for more people in respiratory distress from coronavirus, but medics have raised concerns about s(...)

These are worrying times, given the spread of the coronavirus, but especially so for people with underlying health conditions, older people and their (...)