Aoife Connors Severe mental illness has a high prevalence in the homeless population, with particularly high levels of psychotic illness and substance dependence, as well as risk factors for suicide and violence, a new study has found.

Dara Gantly on keeping the floodwaters away from our plans for universal primary care.

By Lloyd Mudiwa.

Dr Ruairi Hanley believes the rates of children born outside marriage and those leaving school before sitting the Leaving Cert are linked, and that the problem needs to be addressed.

By Aoife Connors.

By Gary Culliton.

Cold homes cost lives and harm the environment, according to a BMJ editorial published recently to coincide with a report commissioned by Friends of the Earth and written by Prof Sir Michael Marmot.

By Lloyd Mudiwa.

Dear Editor, Dr Ruairi Hanley’s recent article on the Royal wedding and visit is surely not his defining literary moment (‘Royally hacked off’, Irish Medical Times, May 13, 2011, http://bit.

Dear Editor, Recent events in the Kingdom of Bahrain have evidenced violations of the Geneva Conventions, with the arrest of doctors and nursing staff treating persons injured during civil unrest in that country.