# public-health - Thursday 18 April, 2019
But education and individual agency cannot help people to ‘do the right thing’ when it comes to their health, writes Maebh Ní Fhallúin.
Share36
# public-health - Thursday 14 February, 2019
The majority of people who died were over the age of 65.
Share16
# public-health - Friday 4 January, 2019
The virus is also known as Swine Flu, and can be particularly harmful to young people and pregnant women.
Share2373
# public-health - Wednesday 7 March, 2018
Four other premises were also closed in February for different reasons.
Share1921
# public-health - Wednesday 15 November, 2017
Symptoms can present as red eyes, a runny nose, a high temperature and a rash.
Share1217
# public-health - Tuesday 10 October, 2017
FactCheck delves into a dispute over the so-called sugar tax, which is to go live on 1 May.
Share256
# public-health - Saturday 7 October, 2017
Harris told consultants that Irish healthcare is at a “historic juncture” in a speech today.
Share367
# public-health - Wednesday 6 September, 2017
Following controversy over Super Junior Minister Finian McGrath’s comments about the vaccine, TheJournal.ie republishes this Factcheck.
Share4628
# public-health - Tuesday 5 September, 2017
With HPV high on the agenda, we spoke to TDs who’ve raised the issue in the Dáil chamber.
Share300
# public-health - Monday 17 April, 2017
Signing up for private health care where none is available increases your bill ten times, and sometimes the situation can be even worse.
Share
# public-health - Wednesday 16 November, 2016
The Climate Action Minister says four people die every day due to air pollution. We put his claim to the test.
Share12
# public-health - Wednesday 24 August, 2016
Research from the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) suggests that people who commute for long periods of time are potentially “shortening their lives”.
Share59
# public-health - Monday 25 July, 2016
An aborted foetus in Slovenia also had microcephaly.
Share234
# public-health - Monday 11 April, 2016
TheJournal.ie’s FactCheck puts some alarming recent headlines to the test.
Share28
# public-health - Monday 1 February, 2016
The organisation made the announcement this evening.
Share10
# public-health - Thursday 12 November, 2015
And anyone who doesn’t comply could be evicted.
Share13
# public-health - Monday 19 October, 2015
A new US study has calculated the cost of binge drinking to the economy.
Share6
# public-health - Friday 11 September, 2015
“Currently the evidence base does not support prohibiting vaping in public places…”
Share122
# public-health - Sunday 26 July, 2015
The facts (and figures) of life.
Share109
# public-health - Tuesday 30 June, 2015
A new Trinity study shows that treatment for ‘legal highs’ dropped to virtually nil
Share40
# public-health - Wednesday 24 June, 2015
It’s all about the molecules.
Share118
# public-health - Friday 24 April, 2015
From 2009-2013, Scott County, Indiana had three HIV infections. There have been 142 since January.
Share27
# public-health - Tuesday 14 April, 2015
Commercial interests have no place in public health, writes addiction counsellor Rolande Anderson.
Share101
# public-health - Friday 10 April, 2015
The restaurant in Roscommon was reopened after five days
Share63
# public-health - Monday 24 November, 2014
A number of different public bodies attended a training event in Tallaght today.
Share16
# public-health - Thursday 16 October, 2014
All came back negative.
Share162
# public-health - Monday 6 October, 2014
Boys are 50% more likely than girls to have such conditions.
Share3
# public-health - Saturday 4 October, 2014
Scare tactics and misinformation should have no place in deciding public health policy.
Share633
# public-health - Thursday 2 October, 2014
With new laws to restrict smoking, we’re asking: Nanny state gone too far? Or public health necessity?
Share204
A bill will go to the Dáil next week, and has government support.
Share53
# public-health - Friday 5 September, 2014
A new editorial published in the British Journal of General Practice has hit out at “alarmist” criticism of the devices.
Share200
There has been criticism of the World Health Organisation over the slow response to the Ebola outbreak.
Share1
# public-health - Wednesday 3 September, 2014
…Especially women and children.
Share10
# public-health - Wednesday 23 July, 2014
Some 30,000 people have been kept inside the city of Yumen for a week.
Share40
# public-health - Wednesday 7 May, 2014
A study found that alcohol can be underplayed in media reports.
Share62
# public-health - Tuesday 4 March, 2014
The four main political parties were joined by Alcohol Action Ireland and Alastair Campbell to launch a new informal Oireachtas group on the issue.
Share29
# public-health - Tuesday 19 November, 2013
The general scheme of the bill to standard packaging on cigarettes is to be the subject of public hearings by an Oireachtas committee.
Share15
# public-health - Wednesday 30 October, 2013
Researchers have also said that direct bat-to-human transmission is “plausible”.
Share6
# public-health - Saturday 7 September, 2013
Anti-fluoride campaigners quote unreliable studies in opposition to water fluoridation, but the real reason we should stop adding it to public water is because it’s unnecessary and a waste of money, writes Craig Connolly.
Share
# public-health - Thursday 11 July, 2013
The naked demonstration will “symbolise how we in Ireland have been stripped of our rights to clean safe water”, according to organisers.
Share151
Clouds and sun, a t-shower in the p.m.
Max: 18 °C
Min: 8 °C
A couple of showers and a thunderstorm
Max: 14 °C
Min: 7 °C
