Professor Liam Glynn has advised that everyone should be behaving as if they have the coronavirus.

Chair of the trade association, Keith Flynn, said members had signed a code of conduct agreeing to only sell vaping products to people over the age of 18. The code, published last month, also states that members should always ask for identification if there is any doubt about a person's age.

Screening programmes should not be paused, the health minister has said, after several professional medical bodies warned their viability was under threat in the wake of a recent landmark High Court judgment.

Just 16 of the 51 interviewed Irish-trained doctors who emigrated to Australia planned to return to work in Ireland.

A lack of psychological and social therapies for people with mental health difficulties is partly to blame for high prescribing rates for antidepressants. That’s according to doctors addressing the Oireachtas joint health committee on foot of recent media reports on overuse of prescription drugs.

Cervical cancer is the second most common cause of death from cancer for young Irish women, despite an effective screening programme and free vaccine. Why has there been such a dramatic fall in the number of girls getting vaccinated? asks Jessica Casey.

The founder of the Jack & Jill Foundation said he is “withdrawing gracefully” from his public campaign opposing the location of the new children’s hospital at the St James’s Hospital site in Dublin.

Health Minister Simon Harris has accused anti-vaccine campaigners of “scare-mongering” that risks the health and possibly the lives of children and adults in need of vital medication care.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has supported Health Minister Simon Harris in his call for “breathing space” to resolve the new national maternity hospital crisis, saying talks are needed to put in place a “legally waterproof situation”.

Health Minister Simon Harris has accused anti-vaccine campaigners of dangerous "scaremongering", writes Fiachra Ó Cionnaith of the Irish Examiner.

With 90 women dying here each year of cervical cancer, a leading health body has said parents can help to save their daughters’ lives by allowing them to be vaccinated against the HPV virus.

An expert group is to devise guidelines to provide clarity for doctors and patients on the safe use of cannabinoid derivatives to treat people with severe epilepsy at a time when debate on its merits is high on the political agenda.

Tackling the pricing on alcohol is a priority to ease ‘urgent crisis’ here, says top medic.

Health Minister Simon Harris has defended his decision not to provide a budget for a major anti-obesity action plan.

Waiting another year to introduce a sugar tax is a “grave mistake” the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland has warned.

WHEN someone who knows what they are talking about gives you stern, challenging advice, you’d be a fool to ignore them — or at the very least unwise and reckless.

A doctors’ group has backed Dáil calls to impose a minimum price on all alcohol products and a de facto ban on TV advertising for the items during sports events, saying the moves are vital if Ireland is to finally tackle its binge drinking culture.

More than 200 Indian doctors working in the Irish health service continue to be ineligible for career-essential training posts despite treating patients on a daily basis, an anomaly repeatedly condemned by the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO).

Electronic cigarettes would be banned from restaurants, bars, and workplaces and made illegal for under-18s, under proposed laws.

Some 40% of children seen at the obesity clinic in Temple Street Children’s Hospital displayed withdrawn behaviour and psychological difficulties.

Helen O'Callaghan says weighing scales should be used regularly

Some of the country’s top medics have called on the Government to ban the advertisement of sugar-sweetened drinks to children.

Bus and truck drivers can continue to drive with well-managed health conditions under new guidelines developed by the Road Safety Authority and the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland.

There has been a 10% reduction in heart attacks since the introduction of the workplace smoking ban, according to the Irish Heart Foundation.

Legislation to ban smoking in cars where children are present has yet to be enacted, almost two years after senators proposed the ban, which has been endorsed by the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland.

Doctors have demanded a 20% tax hike on sugar-sweetened drinks in the upcoming budget to tackle the obesity epidemic.

Doctors have demanded a 20% tax hike on sugar sweetened drinks in the upcoming budget to tackle the obesity epidemic.

Drinks giant Diageo has been forced to defend its Arthur’s Day celebration — a Guinness-sponsored music event — after it was attacked by doctors and well-known personalities.

Doctors have launched a scathing attack on an annual event that promotes Guinness, claiming alcohol-related illnesses in Ireland have reached “epidemic” proportions.

“Habitual” drinkers, not alcoholics, account for most people with alcohol-related liver disease.

Alcohol sponsorship of sport will be seen as a crazy idea in 15 years, a public health specialist has warned today.

Doctors from the Royal College of Physicians are calling on the government to introduce a minimum price for a unit of alcohol.

Irish colleges, by not supporting detained doctors, are seen as collaborating with Bahrain, writes Eoin O’Brien

A panel of senior medics is likely to recommend a crackdown on drunk and disorderly behaviour in public as part of plans to tackle the issue of problem drinking.

A NUMBER of Irish-trained medical personnel unlawfully detained in Bahrain are not among 143 prisoners granted a royal pardon, despite pressure from Irish human rights activists.

A LEADING medic has resigned his fellowship of the country’s largest postgraduate medical institution in protest at its failure to condemn the detention and torture of nurses and doctors in Bahrain.

SIX professors of paediatrics opposed to the selection of the Mater Hospital as the site for a new national children’s hospital have publicly challenged the right of their representative body to say it endorses the project.

AMID all the politicking surrounding the proposed new National Children’s Hospital may be we’ve lost sight of the endgame: that there are parents around the country for whom quality of care is the only relevant concern.

CANCER patients should be cared for in single en suite rooms because of their increased vulnerability to healthcare-associated infections, medical experts insisted yesterday.

A woman hospitalised with the swine flu virus has died, health chiefs confirmed tonight.