Health

Some 25,000 Irish people are living with Alzheimer's disease (AD), and around the same amount with dementia, with figures growing due to our increasingly ageing population

Global Eczema Day, which takes place next week, brings into focus a condition that affects around one in five under six-year-olds and one in 12 adults.

Concerned parents and teachers are calling for immediate action to address the waiting lists for mental health services for young people in West Cork

World experts will outline the established link between our health and what we eat, as part of next month's A Taste of West Cork Food Festival. 

The launch of the implementation strategy for the cross-party Sláintecare plan, telling us all that's going to be done to fix our health service over the coming decade, has deflected attention away from more immediate concerns rai

Family and friends never suspected the torment that former footballer Sean O'Regan was suffering while battling depression. But last year, he took time out to tackle his mental health problems. Now he's a Rose of Tralee escort

When should a politician resign? Or, to be more precise, when should the Taoiseach, Leo Vardadkar, and his current Health Minister, Simon Harris, resign?

Eamon Jackson flew 1,000 miles to get ground-breaking therapy after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer – one of 3,500 men diagnosed with the same disease every year in Ireland. ‘I've never looked back,' he says.

Is it possible that the suffering of patients is not registering with this government and that of all the doctors and nurses who are at the end of their tether, frustrated and exhausted, day-in and day-out?