# 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.
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# public-health - Wednesday 7 March, 2018
Four other premises were also closed in February for different reasons.
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# public-health - Wednesday 15 November, 2017
Symptoms can present as red eyes, a runny nose, a high temperature and a rash.
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# 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.
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# public-health - Saturday 7 October, 2017
Harris told consultants that Irish healthcare is at a “historic juncture” in a speech today.
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# public-health - Wednesday 6 September, 2017
Following controversy over Super Junior Minister Finian McGrath’s comments about the vaccine, TheJournal.ie republishes this Factcheck.
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# 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.
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# 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.
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# 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.
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# 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”.
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# public-health - Monday 25 July, 2016
An aborted foetus in Slovenia also had microcephaly.
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# public-health - Monday 11 April, 2016
TheJournal.ie’s FactCheck puts some alarming recent headlines to the test.
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# public-health - Monday 1 February, 2016
The organisation made the announcement this evening.
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# public-health - Thursday 12 November, 2015
And anyone who doesn’t comply could be evicted.
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# public-health - Monday 19 October, 2015
A new US study has calculated the cost of binge drinking to the economy.
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# public-health - Friday 11 September, 2015
“Currently the evidence base does not support prohibiting vaping in public places…”
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# public-health - Sunday 26 July, 2015
The facts (and figures) of life.
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# public-health - Tuesday 30 June, 2015
A new Trinity study shows that treatment for ‘legal highs’ dropped to virtually nil
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# public-health - Wednesday 24 June, 2015
It’s all about the molecules.
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# public-health - Friday 24 April, 2015
From 2009-2013, Scott County, Indiana had three HIV infections. There have been 142 since January.
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# public-health - Tuesday 14 April, 2015
Commercial interests have no place in public health, writes addiction counsellor Rolande Anderson.
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# public-health - Friday 10 April, 2015
The restaurant in Roscommon was reopened after five days
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# public-health - Monday 24 November, 2014
A number of different public bodies attended a training event in Tallaght today.
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# public-health - Thursday 16 October, 2014
All came back negative.
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# public-health - Monday 6 October, 2014
Boys are 50% more likely than girls to have such conditions.
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# public-health - Saturday 4 October, 2014
Scare tactics and misinformation should have no place in deciding public health policy.
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# public-health - Thursday 2 October, 2014
With new laws to restrict smoking, we’re asking: Nanny state gone too far? Or public health necessity?
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A bill will go to the Dáil next week, and has government support.
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# 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.
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There has been criticism of the World Health Organisation over the slow response to the Ebola outbreak.
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# public-health - Wednesday 3 September, 2014
…Especially women and children.
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# public-health - Wednesday 23 July, 2014
Some 30,000 people have been kept inside the city of Yumen for a week.
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# public-health - Wednesday 7 May, 2014
A study found that alcohol can be underplayed in media reports.
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# 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.
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# 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.
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# public-health - Wednesday 30 October, 2013
Researchers have also said that direct bat-to-human transmission is “plausible”.
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# 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.
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# 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.
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# public-health - Saturday 1 June, 2013
Russians still smoke plentifully on public transport and administrative buildings, but all that could change under an ambitious new anti-tobacco plan.
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# public-health - Sunday 3 February, 2013
Childers said clients should be aware of certain Irish PR firms, which she claimed were “representing the tobacco industry and not being open and transparent about it”.
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