People who engage in light or moderate drinking every day are at an increased risk of cancer, a study has found.

To gauge where cycling is at now, to establish how deep it is in the mire, it may be necessary to hold a stage of the Tour de France in front of a Late Late Show studio audience.

I write in response to the article "Blood-thinning drug’s guidelines may be flawed" (Irish Examiner, July 23).

Guidelines for doctors about a blood-thinning drug may be flawed, according to a British Medical Journal investigation published today.

Three hospitals have issued visitor bans on the public after the HSE confirmed the country is in the grip of a major flu outbreak.

Medical experts are reviewing the safety of drug widely used to treat diabetes after experts linked it to pancreatic cancer.

Two out of every three swine flu vaccines stockpiled by the State during the 2009 pandemic crisis have finally been written off as unusable by health officials — costing the taxpayer €8m.

Playing a 3D computer game could be just as effective at treating young people with depression as face-to-face counselling, research has suggested.

MORE than one in 10 British-based scientists or doctors have witnessed colleagues intentionally altering or fabricating data during their research, according to a survey by the British Medical Journal.

ALMOST two million swine flu vaccines bought by the Health Service Executive during the pandemic scare were never used.

Diabetes sufferers should not routinely take aspirin to prevent heart attacks, research today suggested.

ON May 17, 2003, the British Medical Journal published some findings into passive smoking and disease from a study carried out between 1960-1988.