Probiotic drinks company Yakult Ireland is to sponsor the Connacht Rugby team in terms of providing product support to the club for the 2009/10 season.

Hollywood heart-throb George Clooney has lost out to Matthew Fox's character Dr Jack Shepherd in the hit series 'Lost', among others, in a poll of favourite TV doctors.

FOOD is big business, bigger in some places more than others.

Nearly half of the Irish workforce have taken days off this year due to colds and flu, according to a new survey carried out by Yakult.

A survey of 1,000 people done by Yakult showed that half of Irish workers were absent this year due to cold or flu.

HEALTH-conscious consumers should think twice before swallowing the claims made by makers of products containing “friendly” bacteria, experts have warned.

IRISH food firms are developing a new generation of probiotic drinks which they claim help prevent common health problems like heart attacks and obesity.

Irish food firms are developing a new generation of probiotic drinks which claim to help prevent common health problems like heart attacks and obesity.

Consuming friendly live bacteria may help to lower people’s risk of developing cancer, it was claimed today.