High-risk drinkers are 22 times more likely to be absent from work due to their alcohol use compared with lower-risk drinkers ...

More than 22,000 newborn babies received immunisation against RSV last winter as part of a pilot HSE programme ...

Irish researchers develop atlas of cells in the small intestine to show how cells act together to drive the disease ...

Male daily smokers aged 20 were expected to lose eight years of life and incur an additional €28,000 in healthcare costs over ...

Snaige AB refrigerators are engineered to meet and exceed stringent EU and WHO cold chain standards ...

A young patient with a rare swallowing condition has become the first in the country to be treated with a pioneering new ...

The average rate of adenoma detection at non-AI assisted colonoscopies significantly decreased from 28.4 per cent (226/795) ...

New insights into the role of inflammation in cardiovascular disease on mortality and major cardiovascular events in people ...

The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has opened an inquiry into Children’s Health Ireland (CHI), after being told that ...

Almost three-in-five people who are blind or vision impaired have been injured because of an obstacle encountered on a ...

The approval for ibrutinib is supported by data from the open-label, randomised, Phase 3 TRIANGLE study conducted by the ...

Welcome to this week's issue of The Week in Medicine – a round-up of all the happenings in the world of Irish medicine ...