# healthcare - Sunday 17 September, 2017
The UK’s poor air quality ratings are thought to cause more than 40,000 premature deaths a year.
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# healthcare - Monday 11 September, 2017
Some of your personal details may already be available for sale on the dark web awaiting a purchaser. The only certainty is that the next attack is coming – the only question is when, writes Ronan Murphy.
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# healthcare - Sunday 20 August, 2017
Former patients were at Beaumont Hospital this week to thank the staff that cared for him.
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# healthcare - Saturday 12 August, 2017
A HSE expert says drinks promotions can encourage students to drink a lot in a short space of time and lead them into dangerous situations.
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# healthcare - Saturday 29 July, 2017
The HSE said it’s been “working to establish a system to track waiting lists for a range of diagnostic procedures”.
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# healthcare - Wednesday 26 July, 2017
New CSO figures show a 16.4% drop in HSE-funded dental treatments between 2013 and 2016.
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# healthcare - Tuesday 25 July, 2017
John McCain received a standing ovation from his colleagues as he entered the chamber.
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The 80-year-old senator has been diagnosed with brain cancer.
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# healthcare - Thursday 20 July, 2017
The United Nations report’s authors claimed that the data proved the “scales have finally tipped”.
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# healthcare - Tuesday 11 July, 2017
Yesterday, the Royal College of Surgeons launched a report that aims to increase their female representation.
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# healthcare - Monday 10 July, 2017
Just 7% of all surgeons in Ireland are women.
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# healthcare - Saturday 8 July, 2017
Dick Murray was diagnosed with colon cancer in 1993.
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David Cullinane says the bill will inject “a sense of urgency” into the issue.
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# healthcare - Wednesday 5 July, 2017
Emotional support and aftercare will be an important development in how people with, or who had cancer, are looked after.
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# healthcare - Tuesday 4 July, 2017
Around 200 people gathered outside Dáil Éireann today to call for 24-hour cardiac care for Waterford and the South-East.
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The HPV virus can lead to cervical, penile and throat cancer in some cases.
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# healthcare - Sunday 2 July, 2017
General practitioners will be starting an “information drive” to highlight the benefits of an EU healthcare scheme.
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The raw fish meal ‘koi pla’ attract parasites that can cause a lethal liver cancer which kills up to 20,000 Thais annually.
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# healthcare - Friday 30 June, 2017
“If I’m the Irish government, I should take responsibility for Irish women,” Professor Arulkumaran told TheJournal.ie.
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# healthcare - Thursday 29 June, 2017
The Department of Health has released its figures of the number of terminations carried out in Ireland last year.
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# healthcare - Monday 26 June, 2017
Skin cancer is the most common cancer in Ireland, and 16% of those who are diagnosed die from the disease.
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# healthcare - Friday 23 June, 2017
A 40-year-old man from Waterford died while being transported in an ambulance to a hospital in Cork.
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# healthcare - Wednesday 21 June, 2017
The Future of Healthcare report which aims to reform the health service over 10 years has been criticised for the spending it proposes.
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# healthcare - Saturday 17 June, 2017
The case was brought to the attention of the Minister for Mental Health and the Taoiseach’s office.
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# healthcare - Monday 12 June, 2017
Researchers said there was a worrying rise in the number of obese children across the world.
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# healthcare - Saturday 10 June, 2017
The HSE’s spend on legal and professional fees increased by 28.6% last year – rising from €47m to €60.5m.
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# healthcare - Friday 2 June, 2017
Nearly half of female doctors delay starting a family for career reasons.
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# healthcare - Thursday 1 June, 2017
The man denied it before offering to hand over €50.
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After suffering from bleeding and ongoing pain, the woman was not contacted by the hospital and eventually had to go to A&E.
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“Why doesn’t the HSE pull the finger out and give us the means to contribute fully,” Galway GP Peter Sloane said.
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# healthcare - Wednesday 31 May, 2017
“I’ll stand up in Leinster House tomorrow and be announced as a person with MS – but that’s such a tiny bit of who I am.”
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# healthcare - Tuesday 30 May, 2017
But who now owns the National Maternity Hospital? The government still needs to clarify its position.
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# healthcare - Wednesday 24 May, 2017
Premiums would cost less, but only because they would cover less.
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# healthcare - Sunday 21 May, 2017
High blood pressure can cause a heart attack, stroke or cognitive difficulty in later life.
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# healthcare - Monday 15 May, 2017
Consultants say these doctors do not have the expertise necessary to make the right decisions for patients.
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# healthcare - Thursday 11 May, 2017
There was a discussion around what is causing a mistrust of vaccines, which have eradicated many diseases in Ireland.
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# healthcare - Monday 8 May, 2017
A significant number of people have witnessed physical or emotional abuse in home care services.
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A 16-year-old patient spent the night in a chair at the adult psychiatric unit last week.
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# healthcare - Friday 5 May, 2017
Pharmacists have argued that prescription requirements limited medical card holders’ access to the contraceptive.
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# healthcare - Tuesday 2 May, 2017
At one hospital, “patients who were unable to walk did not have access to fresh drinking water”.
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