Health and Lifestyle

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an advisory to all parents to stop giving cough and cold medication to children under two years of age.

With a sore throat that was shooting pain into my left ear, I went out last Friday night to have a few pints of porter (five, to be exact) at the local GAA club where there was a bit of an auld trad session on.

Photo courtesy of Julie70 Forget the Museum of Modern Art in Kilmainham or the National Gallery in Dublin city centre.

Is the world going mad? This may or may not be true, but I was informed by a friend who has an eight-year-old son that his child is being taught a hybrid form of Irish.

Would you expect to be diagnosed with bowel cancer and then sent home to wait for an appointment to see a consultant, with only paracetamol to ease your pain? Believe it or not, that is the disgraceful situation in which 45-year-old Eddie Gault from west Belfast finds himself.

There was an interesting coincidence in the office this morning.

There is still an amazing amount of misconception in this country about emergency contraception, STDs and sexual health generally.