What was he smoking? A health guru claimed puffing on cigarettes is linked to longer living — but now he’s trying to extinguish the controversy. “The men in Sardinia have …
PASSENGERS on a Ryanair flight out of London have been dealt an urgent measles warning amid rising outbreak fears. The Health Service Executive (HSE) alerted travellers on the Dublin-bound flight …
Every day, Akash Kumar Mishra applies for jobs and checks to see if he’s heard back from anyone he approached the day before. He estimates he has put out hundreds of applications, with …
WHEN we feel a little cough brewing, most of us jump to the assumption that we have a cold. But what is the likelihood it’s hay fever, or Covid, or …
WHEN we feel a little cough brewing, most of us jump to the assumption that we have a cold. But what is the likelihood it’s hay fever, or Covid, or …
WHILE it is a largely preventable condition, around 13.6million of us are at risk of type 2 diabetes. Closely linked to obesity, it can lead to problems including heart disease, …
PHARMACISTS are warning of shortages of whooping cough antibiotics as the UK faces the biggest outbreak in over a decade. Five infants have died of the highly contagious illness between …
The impact of a data breach affecting MediSecure eScript — an organisation which formerly handled electronic prescriptions as they were sent from prescriber to pharmacy — was confirmed by the …
Since it was first identified in 1983, HIV has infected more than 85 million people and caused some 40 million deaths worldwide. While medication known as pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, …
A large, long-term trial of the weight-loss medication Wegovy (semaglutide) found that people tended to lose weight over the first 65 weeks on the drug—about one year and three months—but …