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There’s nothing like Christmas for sucking the emotional and financial blood out of you, then throwing you to one side, all used up, around eight o’clock on the evening of Christmas Day. You might have gathered by now that I’m not a great fan of Christmas.
She tells her story to Sylvia Thompson IT ALL started with a pain in my back in May 2007. I had been doing a lot of work in my garden and thought that I might have strained it...Over the following five weeks, I went to the doctor four times and to the...
Tags: St James’s Hospital, bone marrow, marrow transplanted, Limerick Regional Hospital, Ireland, Limerick, Health Medical Pharma, Leukemia, Hematology, Oncology, Blood disorders, Acute lymphoblastic leukemia, Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, Lymphatic system
The treatment for breast pain will depend upon its cause I’m 23 and have noticed from time to time both my breasts are very painful. Could this be a sign I have breast cancer? Although there are a wide range of possible causes for breast pain, it’s...
Tags: breast painful, breast tissue, Ireland, Dublin, Health Medical Pharma, Mammography, Gynecology, Breast, Mastodynia, Oncology, Nipple discharge, Mastitis, Human Interest, Cancer
Health Organisation (WHO) has stated that unless urgent action is taken, by 2030 there will be more than eight million deaths a year caused by tobacco, with 80 per cent of them occurring in developing countries...In Ireland, more than 6,000 people die...
Tags: Ireland, tobacco advertisement, control policy, start smoke, smoke prevalence, Dublin, Health Medical Pharma, Tobacco smoking, Smoking, Passive smoking, Tobacco, Smoking ban, Tobacco advertising, Health effects of tobacco, Prevalence of tobacco consumption
Medical students need to learn how to carry out thorough but speedy examinations of real body systems DID YOU ever stop to think how doctors and other healthcare professionals learn to do intimate examinations? I’m thinking of vaginal and breast examinations...
Tags: medical students, intimate examined, written consent, consent form, pelvic examined, gynaecological procedures, Ireland, Dublin, Health Medical Pharma, Education, Informed consent, Anesthesia, Medical school, Intimate examination, Gynaecology, Medical record, General anaesthesia, Consent
Elsewhere in Ireland, professional cookery is a man’s world, but in Cork, ever since Myrtle Allen opened Ballymaloe House a full 45 years ago and began to cook for dinner guests, Cork has been a stronghold of women’s food. From east to west and in the...
Tags: Myrtle Allen, West Cork, Carmel Somers, Ireland, Cork, Cookbook, Food, Hospitality Recreation
I know it’s approaching because the countdown began at around minus 60 days. It’s been relentless since October, as if a moment hasn’t passed without thoughts of the big day crossing the child’s mind...This is her first big one, the first where there’s...
Tags: Ireland, Dublin, Hammer of the Last 2, Jim Zwerg
Teaching children the importance of doing a poo regularly is a tricky issue for parents Q I have a question on potty training. I trained my third child (aged three years and four months) last March and she is still having difficulties with the whole area...
Tags: Ireland, Dublin, Chalcogens, Carcinogens, Metalloids, Polonium, Human Interest
How do I stop pigeons eating everything intended for the smaller birds on the feeder?...The latter was at it again today, showing no sign that he was contemplating hibernation any time soon. It led me to wish that our collection of squirrels in Dáil Éireann...
Tags: HSE, silly buggers, National Health Service, Ireland, Mullingar, Health in the United Kingdom
UN Climate Change conference in Copenhagen this week, a lesser known but arguably just as important group of campaigners will join them to spread the message of the health impacts of climate change. Representatives from Prescription for a Healthy Planet...
Tags: health impact, Healthcare Without Harm, Ireland, Health and Environment Alliance, Healthy Planet, public transport, World Health Organisation, carbon footprints, public health, Cork