The use of e-cigarettes is to be banned in all health facilities from the start of next month.

The Health Services Executive’s decision to ban the use of electronic cigarettes in all health service facilities should be warmly welcomed as a step in curbing what could develop into an undesirable trend in nicotine use.

The HSE is to ban e-cigarettes from hospitals and other health centres from May 1.

More than one in four people in Ireland have been harmed because of someone else’s drinking. A report by the HSE found that 28% of people have experienced at least one or more of the negative consequences of someone’s else’s drinking.

One in four people have been harmed by someone else's drinking habits, a new report from the HSE has found.

More than one in five children are overweight or obese but there are some encouraging signs of stabilisation, according to data published by the HSE.

As part of a change in policy, a Health and Wellbeing Division was established last year as part of a shift from simply treating sick people to keeping them healthy in the first place.

Ex-GAA star, Gerry Collins, is new face of anti-smoking ads after terminal diagnosis.

A HSE group tasked with battling Ireland’s suicide epidemic failed to spend almost a third of its budget last year due to serious delays in finding someone to lead the organisation.

The HSE has said it is confident it will have appointed someone to head up its National Office for Suicide Prevention by October following the sudden departure of its director, Stephanie O’Keeffe, last Friday, after just three months in the position.

The number of women giving Irish addresses at British abortion clinics has fallen every year over the past decade, it has emerged.

Nine out of 10 young people used contraception the first time they had sex, research has revealed.

More than seven out of 10 students have had unprotected sex but have never been tested for a sexually transmitted infection (STI), according to research.

NEW lesson plans for teachers and youth workers to help delay early first-time sex among young people were published yesterday.

THE number of babies born to teenagers fell by 35% in the last 10 years, according to the Central Statistics Office (CSO).

ONE third of recent mothers have described their pregnancy as traumatic, with half blaming financial worries.

THREE-in-five 18-35 year olds believe abortion should be legalised, according to a sex survey which found one-in-four women has experienced an unplanned pregnancy.

RESEARCH which found that most gardaí doubt whether victims of rape have actually been assaulted is fundamentally flawed and extremely damaging, a senior garda said yesterday.