HALF of all women who have experienced the menopause said it had a huge effect on their lives, recent research reveals.

A MAJOR three-generation study involving more than 1,000 mothers highlights the need for greater State support for families with very young children.

PEOPLE unhappy with the health service are less likely to vote if they are healthy, new research shows.

Irish Travellers are dying at too young an age and a review of the health issues affecting the community is long-overdue, a leading Traveller support group said today.

Mary Dundon, Political Reporter

HEART attacks and strokes kill twice as many woman than all cancers combined, a medical expert warned yesterday.

IRISH people have poorer health than most of their European counterparts, one of Ireland’s leading experts on public health has claimed.

Anti-tobacco groups say they are hopeful that people who gave up smoking for Lent will stay off cigarettes as the period comes to an end today.

As a nation, the comprehensive survey on the lifestyle of the Irish, published yesterday, gives more than a startling reason to pause and consider exactly what problems we are storing up for ourselves.

WE are fatter, lazier, drink more heavily and take more drugs than four years ago — but we feel better than ever.

A new Health and Lifestyle survey is confirming an increase in the level of binge-drinking over the past four years.

SEVEN out of every 100 deaths in Ireland are caused