More than 2,000 people die annually from stroke, which is higher than the number of deaths from breast cancer, prostate cancer and bowel cancer combined.

The cervical cancer vaccination of almost 30,000 teenage girls will begin in secondary schools across the country next month.

This shift in the toads’ behaviour coincided with disruptions in the ionosphere, the uppermost electromagnetic layer of the earth’s atmosphere, which were detected using very low frequency (VLF) radio sounding.

Young people in Britain see significantly more on-screen smoking in movies than their US peers, finds research published ahead of print in the journal Tobacco Control.

Two representatives of the Tallaght Hospital Action Group have met the Chairman of the Tallaght Hospital inquiry, Dr Maurice Hayes, to discuss the review into the delay in reporting radiological examinations and the management of GP referral letters at the hospital.

Patients who continue to receive the full risperidone dose used for their acute episode of schizophrenia had fewer relapses than those who had dose reductions after four weeks or 26 weeks during the maintenance period, a new randomised, controlled trial has determined.

Gladiatorial disputes between the HSE and the Department of Health lay at the heart of Prof Tom Keane’s move to withdraw as a candidate to be the next HSE Chief Executive, sources have told IMT.

The use of dual antiplatelet therapy for longer than 12 months in patients who had received drug-eluting stents was not significantly more effective than aspirin monotherapy in reducing the rate of myocardial infarction (MI) or death from cardiac causes, a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine has concluded.

Prisoners in the UK are significantly more likely to have drug-resistant TB than other people with the disease, suggests research published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

An innovative action research project was launched on March 19 on the palliative care needs of people with nonmalignant diseases.