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Yarrow is a worthwhile addition to your medicine cabinet

Dr Rosari Kingston September, 2021

Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) is just ready for harvesting now, and it may be found on roadside verges and in stony ground. These kind of conditions are excellent for developing the therapeutic properties of yarrow thus making it a very worthwhile remedy. Some authors contend that yarrow may be a herb […]

Top tips for back acne

Sherna Malone September, 2021

Are you experiencing breakouts on your back? This has been an all-too-common concern I’m seeing in my treatment room of late so I thought it might be an idea to share some tips that may help. Firstly, what causes back acne (sometimes referred to as ‘bacne’)? Typically, it’s caused by […]

Training doctors in child’s play

Dr Jeff Featherstone September, 2021

It might come as a surprise to readers that doctors are legally obliged to keep up their knowledge and skills every year by spending many hours in training outside of work. The Irish Medical Committee carefully polices this education and woe betide the doctor who falls short with his monitored […]

Type 2 Diabetes is a repetitive strain injury to the pancreas

Freya Sherlock September, 2021

There is so much to be grateful for with all the extraordinary advances we now enjoy with modern living. For most of us, even on our toughest days, we have an ease of lifestyle that even our grandparent’s generation would scarcely have dared to imagine. Here in Ireland, in many […]

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Older LGBT+ community no longer ignored

BRÓD September, 2021

Abi O’Callaghan-Platt is one of the core members of BROD. An environmental scientist, Abi was raised in West Cork and returned five years ago to raise her two children here. It is estimated that up to eight per cent of over-65s in Ireland may be lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender. […]

‘Bean’ to India on a plate

Karen Austin September, 2021

I’m a bit of a bean freak and each year we grow a variety of beans in our garden. French beans, borlotti beans, angel beans, coca beans, dwarf beans; most years each of these produces enough beans for us to enjoy but no way overwhelm us, but the runner beans […]

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