# health - Friday 4 January, 2013
The move comes after HIQA cancelled the provider’s registration.
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Hugo Chavez’s top aides say the opposition and the media have used the Venezuelan president’s poor health to wage a “psychological war” to destabilise the country.
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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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Data from various weather events beginning to help predict conditions in which a disease will flourish.
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# health - Thursday 3 January, 2013
Two senior doctors have been suspended from the Leipzig University Clinic’s organ transplant centre as part of an investigation into alleged manipulation of the waiting list.
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# health - Wednesday 2 January, 2013
A study of three million people has found that those with a BMI classing them as ‘overweight’ actually live for longer.
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# health - Tuesday 1 January, 2013
What are you promising to change, learn or do better in 2013?
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# health - Saturday 29 December, 2012
There’s just 60 hours to go in 2012 so we want to know about your New Year’s resolutions.
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# health - Tuesday 25 December, 2012
Coughs, colds, trips and falls are the most common injuries and illnesses around Christmas. Watch yourselves.
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# health - Monday 24 December, 2012
The authors of a new study have said parents and doctors should routinely ask children with food allergies about bullying.
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Ireland’s public health system offers no treatment for infertility – so if you haven’t got money you can forget it, writes Fiona McPhillips.
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# health - Friday 21 December, 2012
George McNeice is now entitled to a pension pot of just under €10 million following the announcement of his retirement from the doctors’ representative group yesterday.
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The HSE says flu is now ciruclating, and over 65s, pregnant women and people with chronic illnesses should act quickly.
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# health - 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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# health - Friday 14 December, 2012
Independent TD Denis Naughten said today that there is a need for the establishment of a national helicopter emergency service.
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The SDU has spent €1.7 million in total on consultancies since it was set up in 2011 by Health Minister James Reilly.
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# health - 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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# health - Sunday 9 December, 2012
No, really, put down those toning shoes.
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# health - Saturday 8 December, 2012
A Fine Gael TD and a Senator have both asked the Minister to reconsider the decision to cut the grant by over €300.
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In a report the department said this is a key requirement of the new implementation of the Croke Park Agreement.
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# health - Friday 7 December, 2012
The Venezuelan president said he was very happy to be back but did not elaborate on his health.
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# health - Thursday 6 December, 2012
The government’s going to spend €69 billion in total next year. So where does the average taxpayer’s money go?
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The Health Research Board published its Picture of Health for 2012 today.
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New research shows that patients would be three or four times more likely to survive sudden cardiac arrest outside hospitals if GPs are properly equipped.
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# health - Tuesday 4 December, 2012
It was reported at the weekend that the Education Minister had indicated that Reilly was “not up to the job” of Minister for Health.
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# health - 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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# health - Friday 30 November, 2012
Over 800 junior doctors have warned James Reilly that the agenda to portray the medical profession as though it is driven by greed is creating “deep unease”.
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# health - Thursday 29 November, 2012
The organisation said that nursing staffing levels in Ireland are at “critically low levels” compared to the UK.
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James Reilly will today tell an Oireachtas committee about the funding challenges the health service will face in 2013.
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# health - Wednesday 28 November, 2012
The baby was born last week at Cavan General Hospital but was later transferred to Dublin, where he died.
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Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin has started a fundraising campaign to finish vital work next year.
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Here’s the nine stories you need to know as you start your day.
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Costs include healthcare, loss of productivity and work absenteeism.
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New research also shows that the benefits of physical fitness outweigh those of cholesterol lowering medication.
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# health - Tuesday 27 November, 2012
The Cystic Fibrosis Association of Ireland has requested a review of the management of CF beds at the hospital.
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The survey showed the majority of people cite cost as the dominant reason for switching to generics.
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# health - Monday 26 November, 2012
Scientists have warned that smoking can damage the mind as well as the body.
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# health - Saturday 24 November, 2012
The insurer says the price increase is needed to fund a greater number of claims and escalating cost of medical treatment.
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# health - Thursday 22 November, 2012
The report also says health problems and deaths related to climate change are likely to increase in the future.
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The death of Savita Halappanavar was raised again at Leaders’ Questions in the Dáil this morning.
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