The IMO has warned that with current resources, the roll out of the HPV vaccination programme will require ongoing child-health initiatives to be “stopped or curtailed”, and that a Ministerial order will be required for the Organisation to drop these programmes. Dr Paula Gilvarry, former chairperson of the IMO Public Health Doctors Committee, and Shirley [...]

Think you’re eating a healthy salad? Think again, as new research will investigate the prevalence of E. coli, salmonella and listeria on our spinach, lettuce and tomatoes. Safefood, the Irish food safety promotion body, reports that contamination with various bacterial pathogens can occur while vegetables are growing; during harvesting, transport, processing and distribution; and even [...]

Cancer patients need more information about medical cards, HSE payments and social welfare payments and quicker access to benefits, according to the Irish Cancer Society (ICS). In view of the often-rapid course of cancer, the Society is calling for medical-card applications and other benefits for cancer patients to be fast tracked, to alleviate the additional [...]

New research hopes to discover whether cleaning up can actually spread harmful bacteria. Instead of using this as an excuse for laziness, however, the solution may be simply to regularly change one’s dishcloth. Safefood, the Irish food-safety promotion body, is looking for interested parties to carry out research on the potential of household dishcloths to [...]