Many of us have been witnessing the downfall of the health services in Ireland as significant pressure persists due to a surge of patients presenting to emergency departments (ED) across the country, GP practices and Read more…
MDMA and cocaine potency and purity are “at an all time high” according to a recent report published by the HSE National Social Inclusion Office. Read more…
The HSE has made the decision that students who refuse to be vaccinated will not be allowed to take up clinical placement. Read more…
While Covid-19 has changed how we live, and it has affected the general running of hospitals and plunged them under pressure, children are still waiting and their condition has not gone away at the foot of a global infection. Mountains have been moved over the course of this pandemic, this should be one of those mountains. Read more…
At the end of 2019, the Coronavirus pandemic took the world by surprise. Scientists worked long and hard over the past year to develop a sufficient vaccine, and they succeeded. But as the pandemic is slowly regressing due to the vaccination rollout programme taking place across the world, there are still other deadly illnesses that cannot be deterred by vaccination immunity. Read more…
Rotunda Hospital and the Coombe Hospital have confirmed that they gave unused Covid-19 vaccines to relatives of their staff and to members of their local communities.
The HSE ordered nearly €7.5m of defective ViraPro hand sanitiser that has been recalled. Read more…
Trinity College (TCD) is the first Irish third level institute to launch an on-campus Covid-19 testing programme available for students and staff.
Stay indoors. Completely avoid contact with other people. Use a separate toilet to people in your household.
A case of the coronavirus was confirmed in Trinity by provost Dr Patrick Prendergast.
The waiting list for trans and non-binary people to receive a psychiatric diagnosis is now twenty-five months long, according to the This Is Me – Transgender Healthcare Campaign. Read more…
Cancer has overtaken heart disease for the first time as the most common cause of death among
Irish people, a new report has shown. Read more…
Syphilis cases are increasing to record levels in Ireland according to the HSE. The STI can be treated with antibiotics and caught by getting a blood test. Read more…
The figures obtained from GPs and shared by Donnelly reveal that 69,836 patients were cut from waiting lists as part of a “validation exercise” after staff inquired that they were “ready, willing, suitable and available” to attend. Read more…
The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA\0 want to provide a HIV preventative drug for free to at risk patients with medical cards. Read more…
GPs speaking at the annual IMO meeting, have called for medical card holders to be charged for their services due to financial constraints faced by doctors. Read more…
Darkness does not discriminate. Few people are bypassed when dire possibility and self-doubt eradicate even the faintest glimmer of light. Darkness can live within us all. For most, it pays only fleeting visits. For most, suicide is not Read more…
The nurses and midwives of Ireland plan industrial action on the seventh of March after the HSE failed to agree terms with the INMO regarding a dispute over working conditions Read more…
Students could be subject to poor conditions when renting off-the-books from people who use homes belonging to elderly people placed in nursing homes as a tool for undocumented additional income. Read more…
The University of Limerick has issued a warning to their student body following an outbreak of Gonorrhoea and Chlamydia on campus. The university confirmed to the Limerick Leader that 14 cases of gonorrhoea are “associated Read more…
A second case of meningococcal disease (meningitis) has occurred in a DCU student this week, according to the HSE. Hayley Halpin reports. Read more…
An outbreak of the mumps is currently affecting many university campuses in Ireland. Chai Brady has more. Read more…
Students are being urged to be vaccinated against mumps, as at least six outbreaks of the disease among students have occurred this year. Read more…
How does being diabetic change a person’s life? The College View looks at the life-changing affect the condition can have. Read more…
A campaign has been launched to combat an alarming increase in the number of people diagnosed with Gonorrhoea. Read more…
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