Health

Many men dying from largely preventable causes - report

A new report on men's health has found that many men in Ireland are dying too young, of causes that are largely preventable.

Ireland • 10 hrs

99 hospital consultants earned €350,000 or more in 2023

A HSE audit has found that 99 hospital consultants earned €350,000 or more in 2023, for public work.

Health • 10 hrs

US President Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr are pictured in the Roosevelt Room of the White House

Paracetamol safe during pregnancy - EU Medicines Agency

The European Medicines Agency said that there was no new evidence that would require changes to the region's current recommendations for the use of paracetamol, known as Tylenol in the United States, during pregnancy.

US • 4 hrs

The internal audit found that there is no national structure in place for the home birth service (stock pic)

Home birth governance creating risks for mothers - HSE

Weaknesses in the governance of the current home birth system creates a risk for expectant mothers and their babies, according to an internal HSE audit.

Ireland • 1 hr

SAN ANSELMO, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 22: In this photo illustration, Tylenol caplets are displayed on September 22, 2025 in San Anselmo, California. The Trump administration will reportedly link use of the painkiller acetaminophen during pregnancy to autis

Tylenol, vaccines have no links to causing autism - WHO

Neither the painkiller Tylenol nor vaccines have been shown to cause autism, the World Health Organization have said, following comments from US President Donald Trump and his administration to the contrary.

Health • 35 mins

Tusla to conduct welfare checks for 42,000 closed cases

Tusla has revised the number of children whose cases were closed during the Covid-19 pandemic and are subject to a "well-being check" to over 42,000.

Ireland • 17 Sep

Nursing Homes Ireland Conference in Kilkenny

15,000 more beds needed by 2040 - Nursing Homes Ireland

Ireland's ageing population means there will be a sharp rise in demand for both home support hours and long-term residential care beds up to 2040.

Ireland • 18 Sep

Antoinette Burke (right), mother of Katie Burke from Cobh, confronts Taoiseach Micheal Martin

Mother confronts Martin over daughter's delayed surgery

A Cork mother has confronted Taoiseach Micheál Martin over the healthcare treatments available to her daughter Katie, who has cerebral palsy.

Ireland • 15 Sep

Photo shows Garda securing the fencing as they finish for the night at the scene in Donabate on Friday

'Huge gaps and holes in system' - school principal

As the search for a missing boy in north Co Dublin continues, an inner city school principal has said she is not surprised by his disappearance.

Ireland • 15 Sep

12 babies born alive in 2022 after pregnancy termination

The HSE has said it is rare for a baby to be born alive following termination of pregnancy.

Health • 11 Sep

WHO's Ryan 'disillusioned' with world over Gaza crisis

The World Health Organization's Deputy Director General said he is almost "entirely disillusioned with the world" as the women, children and men of Gaza are abandoned.

Middle East • 11 Sep

Christina speaking about her experience with Dublin Simon

Woman who overcame addiction now helping others

A woman who overcame addiction while homeless is now using her experience to help others who are seeking support from Dublin Simon.

Ireland • 12 Sep

Andy Kavanagh from Coolock in Dublin 17 was one the first patients to undergo the surgery in 1986 and he is the oldest surviving heart transplant patient here

Transplant survivor reflects on 40 years since surgery

The Mater University Hospital in Dublin is marking the 40th anniversary of the first heart transplant, which took place at the hospital on this day in 1985.

Ireland • 10 Sep

Child looks at packets of chips on display at a supermarket in Mumbai, India

More children are now obese than undernourished - UNICEF

Obesity has skyrocketed among children and adolescents bombarded by "unethical" marketing of junk food, outpacing undernourishment to become the leading form of malnutrition worldwide for the first time, UNICEF has warned.

Health • 10 Sep

Old woman standing with a cane looking out a window

Loneliness 'powerful factor' in health of older people

Loneliness has emerged as a persistent and powerful factor influencing the health and wellbeing of older adults, according to Trinity College Dublin's Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing

Health • 09 Sep

Co-founders of the East Galway and Midlands Cancer Support Centre Jacqueline and Michael Daly

Cancer survivors in call over 'right to be forgotten'

Cancer survivors and campaigners are calling on the Government to ensure the 'right to be forgotten' is enshrined at five years in forthcoming legislation.

Health • 08 Sep

Call on Government to eliminate use of nasal tanners

The Irish Cancer Society is calling on the Government to look at ways to eliminate the use of nasal tanners.

Health • 06 Sep

Batches of mixed baby leaf and baby spinach recalled by the FSAI

Products recalled over listeria concerns

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland has recalled batches of baby spinach and mixed baby leaf products over the presence of listeria monocytogenes.

Ireland • 05 Sep

Medical personnel prepares a syringe with the vaccine against smallpox and monkeypox at Checkpoint Bln in Berlin, Germany

WHO chief lifts global mpox emergency

Mpox no longer represents a global public health emergency, the WHO has said, following a steady decline in cases and deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo and other affected countries.

Health • 05 Sep

A photo of the brain scan chair and wearable scanner

Wearable TCD brain scanner a 'gamechanger' for research

Trinity College Dublin has acquired a new €2m state-of-the-art wearable brain scanner which it has described as a "gamechanger" for brain research in Ireland.

Ireland • 04 Sep

Picture shows Harvey Morrison Sherratt, who had spina bifida and scoliosis.

Minister receives timeline report of Harvey Morrison care

Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has said she has received a timeline of care report, which she commissioned, in relation to the late Harvey Morrison.

Health • 04 Sep

400,000 illegal medicines seized between January and June

Almost 400,000 units of illegal and falsified medicines were seized between January and June this year, according to the Health Products Regulatory Authority.

Health • 03 Sep

Young woman lying down on a sofa suffering from menstrual pain

Over 740 women on waiting list for endometriosis surgery

New figures show there are currently 747 women on waiting lists for endometriosis surgery in Ireland and 313 of these women have been waiting for between three and 12 months.

Health • 03 Sep

'Every day debilitating', says woman with endometriosis

Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has said women with complex, severe endometriosis have been failed by a lack of understanding in Ireland.

Health • 03 Sep

Writer and endometriosis campaigner Lisa Tierney-Keogh speaks to Behind the Story

Podcast: The 'silent, quiet crisis' of endometriosis

Writer and endometriosis campaigner Lisa Tierney-Keogh speaks about her struggle to get treatment and how she ultimately ended up having to travel to the US for surgery.

Behind the Story • 03 Sep