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"2020 has undoubtedly been challenging for those with health anxiety"

Do you suffer from health anxiety?

Health / 07 Jul

"As evident from the queues outside every supermarket, popping to the shop was no longer an easy option to pick up a quick snack"

How our food habits changed during the pandemic

Domestic goat kids in Indonesia. Domesticated animals can provide intermediary hosts through which wildlife pathogens can spread to humans.

How the rate of pandemics has grown due to human activities

Nature / 03 Jul

Researchers found that appetite and food intake were increased after swimming in both males and females. Photo: Getty Images

Why does swimming make you hungry?

Swimming / 02 Jul

"Over the last 100 years, we have engaged in the restless pursuit of pain elimination through the fastest and most effective way possible and this is where medicine and painkillers have come into their own."

All you need to know about painkillers

Health / 01 Jul

'Data we examined from before the pandemic shows similar bullying prevalence rates amongst those working and not working from home'

How workplace bullying costs Ireland €239 million every year

Work & careers / 29 Jun

"Childhood leukaemia represents the most common cancer in children". Photo: Getty Images

Why do children get leukaemia?

Health / 26 Jun

"The science around the source, spread and control of the virus is evolving and advice on face mask use has been shifting"

All you need to know about wearing face masks in public

Coronavirus / 25 Jun

"Children and teenagers with special needs acknowledge that mental health has been negatively impacted by social distancing and their inability to socialise with their peers"

How has Covid-19 affected children with special needs?

Health / 23 Jun

"It takes courage to ask for help so ensure it is done in the safest manner possible"

Why mental health issues require more than online advice

Mental Health / 15 Jun

"Even new furniture and the very insulation we wrap our houses with can contain indoor air pollutants"

Is your home making you sick?

Health / 09 Jun

Ouch

How to recover from an exercise injury

Health / 15 Jun

"Despite the negatives, living solo was identified by interviewees as leading to useful life skills and confidence such as taking on tasks usually done by men"

What is it like to be a woman ageing solo in Ireland?

Health / 22 May

Teacher Rebekka Hjorth holds an outdoor lesson with her class in Randers, Denmark. Photo: Bo Amstrup/EPA -EFE

How to reopen schools in a child-friendly way

Children / 21 May

"Garlic is a healthy food that may have some antimicrobial properties. However, there is no evidence from the current outbreak that eating garlic has protected people from Covid 19".

What was behind the Irish grá for garlic as a folk cure?

Folklore / 21 May

"Our research also suggests that a number of screen-related factors need to be taken into account when assessing the impact of screens on early development"

How much screen time is too much for young children?

Screen time / 18 May

"We have the professional training and skills to deal with these situations, and we do our best, but we are not immune to the distress of our patients".

How to help and support nurses to deal with Covid-19 challenges

Nursing / 12 May

"Given the option, approximately 70% of those with palliative care needs would prefer to die at home, rather than in a hospital or a hospice."

Moving palliative care from hospitals to the home

Health / 06 May

Researchers at the Pitie Salpetriere hospital in Paris, France using the Magnetoencephalography (MEG) platform to detch variations in the brain's magnetic field during various types of activity. Photo: BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Can technology find an effective cure for dementia?

Dementia / 05 May

Health department staff in Louisiana, where 70% of coronoavirus deaths have been among African Americans, at the New Orleans Convention Center. Photo: Claire Bangser / AFP via Getty Images

How Covid-19 has highlighted African-American health problems

Health / 27 Apr

"The study showed how individuals with a long term illness can find coping mechanisms and ways that work to adapt to their situation"

Coping with the crisis: lessons from those with long-term illness

Coronavirus / 24 Apr

"There's very good evidence that poverty makes you miserable, but then again wealth doesn't necessarily make you happy"

How to win the lottery and not lose your head

Brainstorm / 20 Apr

"Exercise is also a promising treatment for cognitive difficulty, as exercise pumps oxygen to the brain which stimulates the growth of new neural connections."

Why exercise is good for stroke patients

Health / 07 Apr

"The World Health Organisation does not recommend the use of gloves as a means of preventing Covid-19 illness and the HSE advises against wearing disposable gloves instead of washing hands"

Why using gloves in public is 'largely futile' against the virus

Coronavirus / 03 Apr

Florence Nightingale: "her book Notes on Nursing was more of a public health instruction book than a nursing manual". Photo: Shutterstock/Everett Historical

Florence Nightingale's guide to hand-washing and health hygiene

Coronavirus / 02 Apr

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