Parents are making positive changes to their children’s diet and physical activity levels, research conducted by HSE and Safefood for the ‘Little Steps’ campaign suggests. 51% of parents stated they are replacing unhealthy food with healthier options and 61% of parents said their children are spending more time doing physical activity during the week. ‘Little [...]
An international Hepatitis C Conference will be held from June 11 to 19 this year at Dublin Castle ‘Hepatitis C – the Third Decade and Beyond’ is a three day conference being hosted by the Consultative Council on Hepatitis C. This exciting and unique conference provides a three strand programme; Workshops include a half day [...]
The Alzheimer Society has launched its Tea Day, a social occasion where thousands of people – friends,family,work colleagues, neighbours – come together to drink tea and raise money for The Alzheimer Society of Ireland. This year it has been dubbed ‘The Big Brew’ and it takes place on Thursday May 7. The organisers hope to [...]
Teaching school children about common mental health problems can reduce prejudice and negative attitudes towards mental illness. According to a new study published in the April issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry, teenagers who received just six lessons on mental health showed significantly more sensitivity and empathy towards people with mental health problems. The [...]
The five-year anniversary of the smoking ban passed last weekend, as compliance with the ban reached its highest level yet in 2008. Now the Office of Tobacco Control (OTC) will focus its efforts on preventing young people from taking up smoking. Point-of-sale advertising of tobacco products in retail premises is due to be removed from [...]
An Bord Pleanála is due to decide on the planning appeal for a new 160-bed hospital on the Mount Carmel campus by July 7. The proposed development in Churchtown, Dublin, will comprise a new hospital, the demolition of all existing hospital buildings on site and the provision of 40 residential dwellings. The development was refused [...]
A TV production company is looking for Irish doctors with the ‘x-factor’ to audition for new health show. But fear not, you will not be expected to sing or dance. Waddell Media is based in Northern Ireland and made the popular RTE show How Long Will You Live, presented by Dr Mark Hamilton. It is [...]
A RESEARCH programme for an emerging technique that uses light and other forms of radiant energy to understand more about the inner working of cells and tissues has been launched with an inaugural conference at the RCSI. The National Biophotonics and Imaging Platform Ireland (NBIP) has received E30 million from the Higher Education Authority. More [...]
Labour Equality Spokesperson Kathleen Lynch has slammed “the point-blank refusal of the Government to adopt HIQA recommendations for standards in dealing with people with special needs. This is as shameful as it is baffling.” When addressing the annual conference of Inclusion Ireland at the weekend, Disability Minister John Moloney “dismissed the HIQA recommendations out of [...]
A new study has found that women from socially-deprived backgrounds are more than twice as likely as women from affluent backgrounds to develop type 2 diabetes. The finding, by researchers in the UK, followed a study into the use of a risk-scoring mechanism to predict the risk of developing diabetes. The scoring mechanism uses information [...]
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