It will be given to people aged 80 and over, people over 18 living in residential care facilities, and the immunocompromised Photo: Getty Images People in certain at-risk groups will be offered a spring Covid-19 vaccine from the middle of this month. The HSE confirmed that the spring vaccination programme will start on April 13 … Read more
Cancer is the leading cause of death in Ireland, so how the country performs on every aspect of the disease, from prevention and screening to treatment and survivorship, is of critical importance. Each diagnosis is a personal story for the one in every two people who will develop cancer in their lifetime, but population-wide analysis … Read more
Bowel screening tests can detect growths before they become cancerous. Photo: Stock/Monkey Business Images Free bowel screening will be extended to 116,000 more people from tomorrow and will expand to include people aged 57 to 71 years of age. BowelScreen is the national bowel screening programme which offers free screening every two years. Source link
What do you do with your unused medicines? A new agreement between the HSE and pharmacists means you will soon be able to bring your old pills and medicines to a community pharmacy where they will be disposed of responsibly. What we do with these is important. Medication waste is a growing ecological, economic and … Read more
Don’t go to work if you have these 2 symptoms, warns HSE | Dublin Live Need to know Irish health officials urge people with symptoms to stay home from work and avoid hospitals as norovirus cases jump 43.8% in one week Norovirus cases continue to surge across the country(Image: Getty Images) Irish health officials issue … Read more
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THE MOTHER of the late Eve Cleary, who died within hours of being discharged from University Hospital Limerick (UHL), has said an apology from the Minister for Health is “too little, too late.” Melanie Cleary has been campaigning in her daughter’s name and memory, since not long after she died in 2019, at the age … Read more
The musician is working with Tommy Tiernan on a new musical The House Must Win is a gritty new musical drama by Mick Flannery, pictured in Galway. Photo: Ray Ryan We know he can act, do stand-up and host his own chat show – but can Tommy Tiernan sing? Next month he stars in his … Read more
The HSE has acknowledged hospital waiting list figures in Cork are “too long”, with new data showing almost 83,000 people waiting for care at the end of February. The figures, published by the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF), show there were 82,937 people awaiting treatment at the end of last month, of which 73,173 were … Read more
The musician is directing Tommy Tiernan in a new musical The House Must Win is a gritty new musical drama by Mick Flannery, pictured in Galway. Photo: Ray Ryan We know he can act, do stand-up and host his own chat show – but can Tommy Tiernan sing? Next month he stars in his very … Read more