The word sustainable is quite the buzzword nowadays, endlessly bandied about in conversations about climate change, food security, the state of the oceans, farming and food but what exactly do we mean by sustainable food… and where can we source it?

The likelihood of self-harm and depression is higher among teenagers who identify very strongly with being a Goth, research has found.

Pre-tax profits at the Irish arm of publishing giant Elsevier — which is winding down here — increased by 43% last year to €26.3m.

One of the doctors struck off over the MMR jab controversy in the UK asked the High Court today to rule his treatment “unfair and unjust”.

A DECADE after terrorists attacked the World Trade Center in New York, rescue and recovery workers are still bearing the physical and mental scars, research has shown.

WOMEN were urged yesterday to think twice before giving birth at home lest they put their baby at risk.

AN eminent journal which published a controversial research paper sparking concerns over a possible link between the MMR vaccine and autism retracted it from the public record yesterday.

An eminent journal which published a controversial research paper sparking concerns over a possible link between the MMR vaccine and autism retracted it from the public record today.

Ireland’s show jumping team manager Robert Splaine is not expecting an easy ride today when his charges line out in the Swedish Nations Cup in Falsterbo.

Bystanders who give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation are risking the lives of cardiac arrest victims and should stick to chest compression, researchers said today.

GIVING women with a certain type of breast cancer the drug Herceptin for one year following standard chemotherapy may improve their survival, scientists revealed today.

India’s top doctors’ association today said tough laws had helped end the rampant practice of killing female foetuses, responding to a new Lancet study saying up to 10 million female foetuses may have been aborted in the country over two decades after prenatal checks.

Up to 10 million female foetuses may have been aborted in India in the past two decades following prenatal gender checks, according to a study published in Britain’s leading medical journal, the Lancet.

Novartis Prexige painkiller caused fewer stomach ulcers than other painkillers in arthritis patients, according to a study funded by Novartis and published in the Lancet journal.