A study of Irish children who wore devices clocking their physical activity for a week found they were sedentary for more than 60% of their waking hours.

Homeless people are 30 times more likely to self-harm than those living in fixed residences, according to a new study analysing five years of hospital presentations.

A new school of public health that will seek to improve the health of the nation has been launched by University College Cork (UCC).

The study claims cancer risk could be reduced by eating green vegetables, such as spinach or green beans, yellow vegetables, such as peppers and carrots, and cruciferous vegetables.

Cutting cholesterol right back to the levels we were born with reduces the risk of heart attacks and strokes by a third, a study in England has shown.

VAPING INCREASE: The number of people who have tried e-cigarettes almost doubled in two years. 

The World Health Organisation says excessive weight, obesity, ageing, and population growth drove a nearly fourfold increase in worldwide cases of diabetes over the last quarter- century, affecting 422m people in 2014.

Home-brewed heroin could become a terrifying reality within two years following the creation of genetically modified yeast that can be used to make opiate drugs, experts have warned.

Signs telling children how far they will have to walk to burn off the calories in their bottle of soft drink are an effective way of encouraging them to choose a healthier option.

More than one in 10 people around the world are obese – double the number in 1980, research has shown.

Greece, praised for its budget cutbacks and austerity programme, is going after another vice from today: smoking.

MEN who increase their intake of a vitamin traditionally recommended for pregnant women can cut their chance of having abnormal sperm, researchers said yesterday.