Doctors will be able to provide a virtual clinic and offer online consultations to their patients via smartphone, tablet and computer.

Vaping can cause health-damaging chemical reactions, a new study from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland warns.

Professor James McInerney called on Wi-Fi providers to take down pay walls to make access free for all so that people could work and study from home.

In 1910, Mary Ryan became Professor of romance languages at University College Cork, becoming the first female Professor in Ireland. Timothy O’Connor remembers a trailblazer in education.

“I'm not letting that get anywhere near my nan,” blurts an emotional Dave. We’re discussing coronavirus in class.

Professor Barry O’Reilly, consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist, has joined the team at Mater Private Cork.

Wildlife areas on farms must be carefully managed as well as protected to support bees and other insect pollinators, a major study has found.

Among various claims, Meraid Hyland-McGuire alleges failure to act appropriately in response to an electrocardiogram (ECG) carried out on her 58-year-old husband Patrick.

If you can identify your ageing markers, you can focus on them and even try to slow down the process, a Standford University professor tells Rowena Walsh.

Health Minister Simon Harris has said he is pressing ahead with plans to introduce exclusion zones around maternity hospitals after tweeting that he was “appalled” at new video images of a New Year’s Day protest outside the National Maternity Hospital.

At a meeting of the Oireachtas committee on health, Solidarity-People Before Profit TD, Bríd Smith, said many of the missing slides had serious misreadings.

A body has been found by divers in the search for the missing pilot of a light aircraft which crashed off the coast of North Wales.

Irish scientists are spearheading an EU-wide research project into a new heating system that could slash home heating bills while helping the environment.

All too often people with complex and challenging needs end up in prison because it is the only service with no waiting list, a mental health expert has said.

A new Irish research project on the management of labour could make monitoring less intrusive and potentially reduce the number of needless Caesarean sections.

The rise amounts to more than 5,300 medical-card patients.

Cork County Council looks set to become the first local authority in the country to pursue this goal in response to a recent study carried out by a University College Cork professor.

Stevie, the socially assistive robot, was initially created in 2017 by Prof Conor McGinn and the team at Trinity College.

The Taoiseach has addressed the Dáil and has made a formal State apology for the "the humiliation, the disrespect and the deceit" to the women and families impacted by the CervicalCheck controversy.

Ireland spends less on obesity treatment than any other EU country despite more than a million people living with the “treatable disease”.