Latest figures from the HSE show that 435,621 over-70s were prescribed codeine products last year through the three main public drug schemes

CareChoice has reversed its decision to withdraw Beaumont Residential Care in Cork City from the Fair Deal scheme

HSE needs an additional whole-time equivalent 11,991 staff but expects the labour market will supply only about half of this number

HSE CEO Bernard Gloster described it as the "single biggest improvement" for the future resourcing of GP care.

We’re returning to the days of potential double-digit price hikes for health insurance

Imy Brighty-Potts seeks some expert tips for flyers

Mercy University Hospital is looking to reinforce its tobacco-free campus status

Blood supply for most groups has fallen to less than half of what the IBTS aims to have in stock at all times

Relatives and friends of Beaumont Residential Care residents are to protest outside Cork ministers’ offices calling for intervention, after the nursing home’s decision to leave the fair deal scheme

13-year-old Ava suffered with a rare form of epilepsy, the symptoms of which were eased by the use of cannabis

Michelle Forde's pleas for provision to enable her daughter go back to school have been bounced around between the HSE and the departments of Children, Health, and Education

Minister's comments follow decision by HSE chief Bernard Gloster to ask staff to volunteer for extra work this bank holiday weekend to avoid a 'dreadful position' in busy hospitals

Minister responds to union position after 'Irish Examiner' revealed that CUH spent some €608,000 in three months on consultancy services

Fórsa trade union has written to its members in the hospital advising them cease interacting with these consultants and not to attend or participate in meetings with them.

The proposal has been heavily criticised by Drinks Ireland, which claimed the move was a “solo run” by the Government.

The Road Safety Authority says some 46.3% of the holders of driving licences in Ireland have indicated their preferred donor status, Code 115

Such measures, together with showing calorie labels, reduced the total calorie content of takeaways by 2-15%, the research indicated

The National Maternity Bereavement Experience Survey, published by health watchdog Hiqa, found that 10% of bereaved parents were either not offered hospital support, or supports did not exist

INMO says agreement reached on solutions to low staffing numbers 

The conditions cover brain injuries, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s, epilepsy, stroke injuries and debilitating migraines

This year's Organ Donor Awareness Week takes place from May 20 to May 27

The Irish Cancer Society wants to have sun creams of factor 30 and higher reclassified as essential healthcare goods

The impasse on hospital consultant contracts is the latest in a long line of stand-offs which have never been fully settled or satisfactorily resolved in this crucial zone of healthcare delivery.

Drugs prescribed to treat diabetes and the disease of obesity are being touted on social media as a quick fix to lose weight. This is beginning to have repercussions in Ireland for people in real need of these drugs

Trial found after a year of wearing the patch for 22 hours a day, almost seven in 10 children were able to tolerate the equivalent of one to four peanuts

Bernard Gloster will tell the Public Accounts Committee that HSE staff had had to 'deliberately over order' when it came to ventilators in order to secure the necessary volume and supply

Government policy that focuses on access to and affordability of healthy food has the potential to address healthy weight, frailty, and chronic disease as well as healthcare needs in older people over the next decade

Chemists in Cork are experiencing shortages of Ozempic, a drug approved by the HSE only to treat Type II diabetes, but which has been touted on TikTok as a weight loss wonder drug

This is adversely impacting on patients and their treatment, according to the Department of Health's assistant secretary in charge of the Research & Development and Health Analytics division, Muiris O’Connor

Our relationship with alcohol does not encourage optimism about the proposed extension of pub and club opening hours

Ballot by Siptu members of the National Ambulance Service (NAS), counted last Friday, has returned a result of over 95% in favour of strike action

Ireland has led the way globally with the introduction of legislation on smoking indoors. Now there is an opportunity to provide the same global leadership with legislation to protect teenagers and young people from recreational vaping

Staff spending close to 80% of their wages on rent.

Nurses 'avoiding eye contact' with patients to avoid questions because they are so busy, INMO conference told

Scientists at Northwestern University in Illinois have, for the first time, been able to quantify the concentrations of chemotherapy drug in the human brain after the device was used to temporarily open the blood-brain barrier.

Nursing Homes Ireland CEO Tadhg Daly says funding for nursing homes has not been fairly distributed

Chronic shortages, inadequate staffing, excessive workloads and toxic workplaces among the issues facing essential hospital staff

More than three years since start of successful pilot, it is unclear whether funding will be granted

The piece was created by artist Deniece Quinn as part of the HSE's Naloxone Programme

The researchers carried out their research using mice that had been genetically-altered to develop forms of Huntington’s disease, or a type of dementia characterised by the build-up of the tau protein.

Ireland could soon see Ukrainian healthcare staff working as doctors, nurses, medical scientists, and physiotherapists among other roles as new supports start to show results.

The survey also found “88% of respondents are dissatisfied with their level of pay for the functions they carry out”, and responses indicated that the majority would not recommend radiation therapy as a profession.

The findings indicate scientists can alter the amount of tau – one of the proteins that cause Alzheimer’s – by silencing the messages from DNA that make the abnormal protein within each cell, with a drug called BIIB080 (MAPTRx).

According to the World Health Organisation, one in seven adolescents (aged 10-19) worldwide experiences mental health disorders.