Professor Eoin O’Brien has today been appointed president of the Irish Heart Foundation (IHF).

MANY young people are at serious risk of developing heart disease with more than half of adolescents not engaging in enough physical exercise, according to research published yesterday.

AROUND 900 deaths from strokes and heart attacks could be prevented each year if people reduced their daily salt intake by half a teaspoon, health experts said yesterday.

SCOTTISH First Minister Jack McConnell is to visit Dublin next Tuesday to see how the smoking ban is working.