# disease - Thursday 9 May, 2013
A new study shows that the results could be used in future drug trials for people who are gene positive for HD but who are not yet showing overt symptoms.
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# disease - Friday 3 May, 2013
A paper published in The Lancet medical journal calls for more action from authorities in Europe to combat smoking with over a quarter of the continent’s population said to be smokers.
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# disease - Tuesday 30 April, 2013
Ireland was the first country in the world to ban smoking in workplaces including restaurants, bars, and pubs.
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# disease - Monday 8 April, 2013
If passed in parliament, a new report would also see member states required to provide increased protection and training for workers.
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# disease - Thursday 28 March, 2013
The authors of the report say that interventions that promote linear growth should be developed, tested and promoted.
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# disease - Monday 18 March, 2013
Thousands of dead pigs found in a Shanghai river have cast a spotlight on China’s poorly regulated farm production.
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# disease - Monday 11 March, 2013
The study of 137 showed a high prevalence of a disease that was thought to be cause by modern factors like smoking, obesity and lack of exercise.
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# disease - Monday 4 March, 2013
The child from Mississippi has been off medication for a year with no signs of infection in what could be on the second reported curing of the disease.
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# disease - Wednesday 27 February, 2013
Minister Simon Coveney said he was “pleased” with the progress being made to control the disease.
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# disease - Sunday 24 February, 2013
Heart disease, toxic air particles, dangerous bacteria – your office jobs is trying to kill you. Run away!
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# disease - Monday 11 February, 2013
Today marks European Epilepsy Day, a disease which is still underfunded, understaffed and underdeveloped in Ireland, writes John Verling.
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# disease - Saturday 19 January, 2013
All of the people who died were elderly, ranging from 81 to 98 years old.
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# disease - Friday 4 January, 2013
Team in Spain says it is best indication yet that a ‘therapeutic vaccine’ might be possible in place of anti-retroviral drugs.
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# disease - Friday 21 December, 2012
We should know by now that having unprotected sex is not safe, writes Anna Quigley – so why are we engaging in risky sexual behaviour?
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# disease - Sunday 16 December, 2012
The HSE says that the second successive year of doubling cases is “of concern” – and 80 per cent of hospitalised cases were babies aged between newborn and 5 months old.
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# disease - Thursday 13 December, 2012
That is according to the largest ever study on global disease, which also shows that fewer children are dying every year from diseases such as malnutrition.
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# disease - Saturday 1 December, 2012
Although global rates of are dropping, complacency is a barrier to completely eliminating HIV, according to experts.
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# disease - Thursday 22 November, 2012
A survey on sites with imported ash plants over the last four years is expected in the coming weeks.
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The report also says health problems and deaths related to climate change are likely to increase in the future.
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# disease - Sunday 11 November, 2012
International symposium in Cork to hear how experience of illness expressed through music, dialogue, fiction, film and other arts – as well as through social media.
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# disease - Wednesday 7 November, 2012
The new legislation adds restrictions to the countries from which it can be imported while also impacting its movement and export within Ireland.
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# disease - Sunday 28 October, 2012
The new test uses nano-particles to spot markers for cancer or the AIDS virus in human blood serum using the naked eye.
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# disease - Friday 12 October, 2012
The trained rodents are going to sniff out the disease, apparently.
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# disease - Tuesday 9 October, 2012
The book ‘Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic’ tracks previous pandemics and attempts to determine what the next one will be.
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# disease - Wednesday 26 September, 2012
It’s now a medical syndrome, you know.
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# disease - Thursday 20 September, 2012
The country said there was not enough public support for the move, which would have recognised Australia’s original inhabitants in the constitution for the first time.
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# disease - Thursday 30 August, 2012
A large international study has revealed alarming levels of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis across the globe.
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# disease - Thursday 23 August, 2012
The motion follows last week’s vote to introduce strict cigarette packaging laws in the whole country.
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A new study shows that the tail of the pancreas is exposed to radiation, patients are significantly more likely to be diagnosed with diabetes later in life.
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# disease - Friday 17 August, 2012
New research describes the global use of tobacco an “epidemic” – with women increasingly starting to smoke at younger ages and early half of adult men in developing countries still using tobacco products.
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# disease - Monday 13 August, 2012
Ireland was badly hit by fatal diseases over the centuries. These videos look at the history – and how Ireland coped – with some of these diseases.
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# disease - Saturday 11 August, 2012
Decades after their mass closure by the new Irish Free State, communities are pulling together to save their local workhouse.
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# disease - Monday 30 July, 2012
The new specialised facility at Dublin’s St Vincent’s Hospital comes after an eight-year campaign to provide those suffering with the condition with better care.
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# disease - Saturday 28 July, 2012
Regulators in Ireland must now approve the drug ahead of negotiations between the drug’s manufacturer and the HSE regarding pricing.
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# disease - Saturday 30 June, 2012
And what should potato-growers do in response? TheJournal.ie takes a look…
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# disease - Friday 15 June, 2012
On Irish AIDS Day, Pam McHugh says people should ask themselves if they know their HIV status – and if not, why not.
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# disease - Sunday 15 April, 2012
New statistics have highlighted the risk of stroke amongst women in Ireland, showing that stroke kills twice as many women as breast cancer.
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# disease - Saturday 3 March, 2012
Bodily wellbeing is a neglected subject in schools, writes UCD lecturer Frank Armstrong, even when it is a prime training ground for encouraging healthy lifelong habits.
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# disease - Tuesday 20 December, 2011
While incidences of MRSA were the lowest ever recorded by the HSE’s Health Protection Surveillance Centre, the number of measles cases in Ireland rose by 149 per cent last year.
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# disease - Tuesday 4 October, 2011
President Mary McAleese will be at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital today to open a state-of-the-art, four-bed ward for patients with Cystic Fibrosis.
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