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# Medicine

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Union criticises 'flawed' newspaper report on pharmacy mark-ups
17 Oct 2011
858
18
Scientists crack genetic code of Black Death plague
12 Oct 2011
1.4k
9
Wasabi, yawning, and needing to pee: the winners of the 2011 Ig Nobel prizes
5 Oct 2011
1.2k
2
Column: In the future, stem cells will take people out of wheelchairs
Martin Codyre
5 Oct 2011
203
9
Immune system discoveries lead to Nobel prize
3 Oct 2011
447
Column: Organ donations save lives – and I should know
Trevor O'Sullivan
3 Oct 2011
107
7
50,000 illegal and counterfeit medicines seized in Ireland
30 Sep 2011
850
5
Sick notes from doctors costing government €29million a year
22 Sep 2011
644
10
Cough and cold medicines not to be used by children under 6
20 Sep 2011
53.8k
5
Column: ‘This revelation gave me an 85 per cent chance of breast cancer’
Emma Hannigan
16 Sep 2011
341
13
Cost of GP visits sending people online for diagnosis – survey
31 Aug 2011
150
Column: My long journey out of the darkness
Agnes Rowley
28 Aug 2011
439
57
Column: ‘After watching my daughter die, we had to do everything’
Tony Heffernan
17 Aug 2011
141
13
Column: Homeopathy isn’t just useless – in the wrong hands it’s dangerous
David Robert Grimes
11 Aug 2011
3.8k
254
Sitdown Sunday: 7 deadly reads
Michael Freeman
24 Jul 2011
117
Fourth person dies at UK hospital as nurse is arrested
21 Jul 2011
843
5
Irish firm hopes to save premature babies with new research
30 Jun 2011
534
Toenail test lands Irish company €1.5million
22 Jun 2011
925
1
Minister for Health warns of shortage of junior doctors
21 Jun 2011
739
1
Irish boy, 2, 'recovering well' after pioneering brain surgery
4 May 2011
760
Three in four hospital interns take blood without gloves
25 Feb 2011
1.2k
4
Study finds that the brain can block the effect of painkillers
17 Feb 2011
1.2k
Artificial pancreas may help control Type 1 diabetes in pregnancy
31 Jan 2011
692
1
I spy with my bionic eye: slideshow of 2010's most brilliant scientific breakthroughs
27 Dec 2010
1.0k
1
Infants who take paracetamol more likely to develop asthma
1 Dec 2010
382
Passive smoking kills 600,000 every year
26 Nov 2010
615
Who's the Daddy? He is...
4 Oct 2010
1.1k
3
Ambulances called to clinical drug trial
27 Aug 2010
146
Hip replacement devices recalled
27 Aug 2010
495
Economic growth but a harsh budget, Ronan says 'shorry', and a prize bond jackpot
31 Jul 2010
283
Cork doctors embrace iPad
29 Jul 2010
382
Photos of the world's first full face transplant
26 Jul 2010
338
Vaccine patch could see the end of needles
19 Jul 2010
235
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