# Public Health

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# ecigarettes

Government does NOT intend to ban vaping in pubs and offices

“Currently the evidence base does not support prohibiting vaping in public places…”

19.8k

Sep 11th 2015, 9:24 PM

# Sex Week

How many times a week? Sex in Ireland by the numbers

The facts (and figures) of life.

108k

Jul 26th 2015, 9:30 PM

# Legal Highs

The headshop ban pretty much worked, people stopped abusing headshop drugs

A new Trinity study shows that treatment for ‘legal highs’ dropped to virtually nil

13.6k

Jun 30th 2015, 6:04 AM

# Safe sex

Teenagers invent a condom that changes colour if you have an STI

It’s all about the molecules.

18.6k

Jun 24th 2015, 10:40 PM

# scott county indiana

The shocking story of the rise of HIV in one rural American community

From 2009-2013, Scott County, Indiana had three HIV infections. There have been 142 since January.

37.2k

Apr 24th 2015, 8:21 PM

Voices

'Public health' initiatives by the drinks industry do not work and should not be allowed

Commercial interests have no place in public health, writes addiction counsellor Rolande Anderson.

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Apr 14th 2015, 8:00 PM

# Food Safety

Restaurant closed for 'grave and immediate danger to public health'

The restaurant in Roscommon was reopened after five days

65.2k

Apr 10th 2015, 1:25 PM

# Tallaght Hospital

The HSE are still preparing the country for a possible Ebola outbreak

A number of different public bodies attended a training event in Tallaght today.

8.5k

Nov 24th 2014, 5:39 PM

# No apocalypse

Confirmed: 23 tests for Ebola performed on 14 people in Ireland

All came back negative.

21.2k

Oct 16th 2014, 1:10 PM

# illness

One in six 3-year-olds have a serious longstanding health condition

Boys are 50% more likely than girls to have such conditions.

8.4k

Oct 6th 2014, 8:27 AM

Voices

Opinion: Water fluoridation is controversial, but trust evidence over scaremongering

Scare tactics and misinformation should have no place in deciding public health policy.

5.6k

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Oct 4th 2014, 7:00 PM

# Your Say

Poll: Is the State right to crack down on smoking?

With new laws to restrict smoking, we’re asking: Nanny state gone too far? Or public health necessity?

12.6k

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Oct 2nd 2014, 9:28 AM

# stubbed out

Ireland is one step closer to a ban on smoking near children in cars

A bill will go to the Dáil next week, and has government support.

5.6k

Oct 2nd 2014, 9:04 AM

# e cigs

Electronic cigarettes could save thousands of lives a year, say experts

A new editorial published in the British Journal of General Practice has hit out at “alarmist” criticism of the devices.

13.9k

Sep 5th 2014, 4:30 PM

# EBOLA

Ebola outbreak could easily have been averted, says expert

There has been criticism of the World Health Organisation over the slow response to the Ebola outbreak.

8.9k

Sep 5th 2014, 6:15 AM

# TURF'S UP

How cooking with coal and wood fires is killing millions around the world

…Especially women and children.

17.7k

Sep 3rd 2014, 6:45 AM

# China

Chinese man dies of bubonic plague after feeding his dog a marmot

Some 30,000 people have been kept inside the city of Yumen for a week.

21.9k

Jul 23rd 2014, 10:25 AM

# Concern

Drinking's role "airbrushed" out of reporting of Irish alcohol-related deaths

A study found that alcohol can be underplayed in media reports.

10.5k

May 7th 2014, 7:00 AM

# joined up thinking

Cross-party TDs at least agree on one thing, the need to tackle alcohol abuse

The four main political parties were joined by Alcohol Action Ireland and Alastair Campbell to launch a new informal Oireachtas group on the issue.

5.8k

Mar 4th 2014, 3:06 PM

# Tobacco

Public hearings to be held on proposals to standardise cigarette packaging

The general scheme of the bill to standard packaging on cigarettes is to be the subject of public hearings by an Oireachtas committee.

10.2k

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Nov 19th 2013, 9:06 PM

# sars

Chinese bats likely source of SARS virus - report

Researchers have also said that direct bat-to-human transmission is “plausible”.

9.5k

Oct 30th 2013, 6:01 PM

Voices

Column: We should stop water fluoridation in Ireland because it’s needless – not dangerous

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.

2.3k

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Sep 7th 2013, 12:00 PM

# naked protest

The naked truth? Anti-fluoride protesters strip off to demand 'safe' water

The naked demonstration will “symbolise how we in Ireland have been stripped of our rights to clean safe water”, according to organisers.

17.1k

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Jul 11th 2013, 7:45 AM

# Smoking

Russia's ambitious anti-tobacco plan aims to cut smoker numbers by half

Russians still smoke plentifully on public transport and administrative buildings, but all that could change under an ambitious new anti-tobacco plan.

7.1k

Jun 1st 2013, 2:22 PM

# Tobacco

Childers calls for Irish PR firms to declare tobacco clients

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”.

7.4k

Feb 3rd 2013, 1:34 PM

# Public Health

HSE urges public to 'look after health' given hospital crowding

The combination of holiday ailments and the winter vomiting bug mean hospitals are busier than they might usually be.

5.9k

Jan 4th 2013, 4:05 PM

# Drugs

Taking antibiotics for colds and flu is pointless - pharmacists

Pharmacists have warned that overuse of antibiotics is a major public health threat – and that we could eventually run out of effective antibiotics.

6.6k

Nov 21st 2012, 2:29 PM

# Infectious

Higher rate of infection among homeless 'put overall population at risk'

New data published in The Lancet shows much higher infection rates of TB, HIV and Hepatitis-C among homeless people.

4.2k

Aug 20th 2012, 6:50 AM

# Dublin Water

Dublin water restrictions still in place to 'protect public health'

And read why one local resident in the Clontarf area is hoping for a particularly speedy resolution…

2.6k

Aug 14th 2012, 9:31 AM

# Alcohol

"We're drinking too much as a country" - Shortall confirms alcohol restrictions

Junior minister says the cheap and easy availability of alcohol needs to be addressed to curb consumption.

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Jul 23rd 2012, 8:55 AM

# stubbed out

Beaumont Hospital bans smoking on its grounds

The HSE has set a target of banning smoking from the grounds of all health campuses by 2015.

5.4k

Jul 4th 2012, 5:54 PM

# Malaria

One third of malaria drugs worldwide are fake - Lancet research

Counterfeit anti-malaria medicines are contributing to deaths across the world and also leading to drug resistance – putting billions of people at risk – according to researchers.

2.7k

May 22nd 2012, 1:50 PM

# Flu

Seventh resident from Donegal home dies of flu

Another resident of the private Nazareth nursing home in Buncrana has died from influenza, the seventh to succumb to the disease.

1.7k

Apr 8th 2012, 2:33 PM

# Outbreak

HSE continues to investigate flu deaths at Donegal nursing home

Another patient at the Nazareth nursing home in Buncrana died today, but the HSE has said it was not related to the current outbreak.

1.5k

Apr 6th 2012, 6:46 PM

# Waiting Lists

HSE: 178,000 waiting to see a consultant at an outpatient clinic

The Health Minister has said the number of people on waiting lists to see specialists is “utterly unacceptable”.

3.3k

Apr 6th 2012, 9:53 AM

# Bird Flu

All clear: tests on Cork pheasants are negative for bird flu

A temporary exclusion zone is lifted after further tests on a flock of game birds in Clonakilty show bird flu had not spread.

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Apr 4th 2012, 1:40 PM

# Bird Flu

Clonakilty bird flu "poses no risk to public health"

The Department of Agriculture said today that bird flu found in pheasants in Clonakilty is not the deadly H5N1 strain. However all biosecurity measures will remain in place in Barryroe, where results are expected on ill pheasants there.

1.5k

Apr 2nd 2012, 4:44 PM