# illness - Wednesday 25 June, 2014
# Assisted Suicide
# Assisted Suicide
Paul Lamb wants the legal right to end his life with the help of a medic.
# SICK ABROAD
# SICK ABROAD
More than 8 million citizens carried a card in 2013 compared to the previous year.
# illness - Saturday 21 June, 2014
# RIP
# RIP
Gerry Conlon spent 14 years in prison for an IRA bombing that he played no part in.
# illness - Saturday 31 May, 2014
# What Now?
# What Now?
Alex White says a special section of the HSE will be tasked with dealing with those that have already had their medical cards revoked.
# illness - Sunday 25 May, 2014
# Families Battle
# Families Battle
The campaign wants the law changed so that any child diagnosed with a serious illness or congenital condition automatically gets a full medical card.
# illness - Tuesday 20 May, 2014
# Our Childrens Health
# Our Childrens Health
Those launching the campaign said they will maintain a presence outside Government Buildings until legislation is changed.
# illness - Sunday 18 May, 2014
# Death Toll
# Death Toll
The dead included men and women aged from their 60s to 80s.
# illness - Wednesday 14 May, 2014
# Apology
# Apology
The company’s CEO said that it would employ a third party to “make due compensation” to victims and their families.
# illness - Monday 5 May, 2014
# Melanoma Monday
# Melanoma Monday
Skin cancer is the most common form of the disease in Ireland and most cases can be prevented if caught early. Here’s how to do that…
# illness - Monday 28 April, 2014
# Gra Conference
# Gra Conference
Members of the GRA’s executive council said there is a need for a new system to address this, as well as legislation with harsher penalties for anyone who attacks a member of the force.
# illness - Wednesday 2 April, 2014
# Bethany Home
# Bethany Home
The children were extremely young, with some dying from syphilis, convulsions, heart failure and malnutrition.
# illness - Wednesday 26 March, 2014
# THAT'S SICK
From The Daily Edge
# THAT'S SICK
Home is where the hell is.
# illness - Monday 24 March, 2014
# World Tb Day
# World Tb Day
The disease affects 9 million people around the world every year.
# illness - Monday 17 March, 2014
# Donor To Lab
# Donor To Lab
Have you ever considered giving blood and have you ever wondered how the whole thing works?
# illness - Thursday 6 March, 2014
# Anaphylaxis
# Anaphylaxis
An online petition has been started by a councillor who was horrified by the death of a teenage girl in Dublin.
# illness - Friday 28 February, 2014
# Infection
# Infection
Mercy University Hospital has confirmed a case of the Influenza H1N1 today.
# illness - Monday 24 February, 2014
# Unexplained
# Unexplained
The syndrome which has no known cure has appeared in five children in the US.
# illness - Friday 21 February, 2014
# Outbreak
# Outbreak
An outbreak of a “flu-like” illness has effected the hospital.
# illness - Tuesday 18 February, 2014
# Feeling Bod
From The42
# Feeling Bod
The Irish management team will start to piece together their starting XV this evening but the outside centre has a big training session ahead of him.
# illness - Friday 24 January, 2014
# Swine Flu
# Swine Flu
The child, who became ill at the weekend, has been transferred to a hospital in Glasgow.
# illness - Sunday 19 January, 2014
# Genetics
# Genetics
One in 25 people is a carrier for Alpha-1 deficiency, but it remains somewhat of a hidden disease.
# illness - Tuesday 14 January, 2014
# Death
# Death
The man had also been suffering from unspecified diseases, and died at a hospital in Zaragoza.
# Right To Die
# Right To Die
Dignitas helped a total of 202 people to die last year.
# illness - Monday 13 January, 2014
# Memorial
# Memorial
Later today, Sharon’s body will be taken from the Knesset to his farm in southern Israel for burial.
# illness - Thursday 26 December, 2013
# Health Insurance
# Health Insurance
The independent report contains 32 recommendation on how to reduce costs for the health insurance market.
# illness - Thursday 21 November, 2013
# Manflu
From The Daily Edge
# Manflu
Have you, or has someone close to you, been afflicted by this condition?
# illness - Sunday 17 November, 2013
# Opinion
# Opinion
Two million Irish people pay for private health cover out of fear of our public system – but both are broken. Here’s what we COULD do…
# illness - Friday 15 November, 2013
# Sisters
# Sisters
Twin sisters Kelly McCarthy and Kristen Maurer were both diagnosed with breast cancer only months apart.
# illness - Wednesday 13 November, 2013
# Diabetes
# Diabetes
More than 371 million people in the world have diabetes, but one in two of us could be unaware that we have it.
# illness - Sunday 10 November, 2013
# Family
# Family
New proposed changes to the One Parent Family Credit have been announced – and separated parents are not happy.
# illness - Thursday 24 October, 2013
# Roscommon
# Roscommon
The council said most healthy people will recover quickly from the infection but those with poor immune systems could become severely ill.
# Health
# Health
A major new study also shows that strokes caused by high blood pressure and unhealthy lifestyles were now to blame for over half of stroke deaths.
# Opinion
# Opinion
Access to health services is key to leaving homelessness behind – which is why Budget 2014 is so damaging to the Government’s commitment to end long-term homelessness by 2016, writes Niamh Randall.
# illness - Wednesday 23 October, 2013
# Opinion
# Opinion
Good citizenship in conjunction with some collaborative working between communities and government could build better and healthier communities, writes Anne-Maree Quinn.
# illness - Monday 7 October, 2013
# Mental Health
# Mental Health
The singer had earlier asked the Fine Gael TD Alan Farrell to explain the comments he made about the state of her mental health.
# illness - Saturday 28 September, 2013
# Hold Steady
# Hold Steady
Literally. Have you experienced any of these symptoms?
# illness - Friday 20 September, 2013
# Opinion
# Opinion
Long-time Lourdes helper Lloyd Murphy writes about what the pilgrimage means to him – and to the pilgrims who visit the little French town each year in search of peace, companionship, and time to forget about illness .
# illness - Thursday 29 August, 2013
# Cancer
# Cancer
The body charged with assessing the cost effectiveness of drugs for the HSE said two cancer treatments are too costly.
# illness - Wednesday 28 August, 2013
# Drugs
# Drugs
However the study in The Lancet found that opioids – such as heroin – are the biggest cause of death and illness of all illicit drugs.
# illness - Tuesday 27 August, 2013
# Spine
# Spine
The first signs of having the disease include body tremors, but this new test could give a diagnosis before symptoms present.
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