A national phone support service to help newly discharged stroke survivors make the transition back home in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic has been launched by the Irish Heart Foundation in conjunction with the HSE’s National Stroke Programme. The check-in service is a ground-breaking response to significant reductions in […]
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Shopper spend is up 27 per cent as households make bigger shopping trips As public health measures to deal with COVID-19 continue, safefood is reminding people of the steps they can take to protect themselves when food shopping and storing food at home. Retail data published last week by Kantar revealed that […]
Dr. Rosari Kingston PhD, M.Sc (Herbal medicine) is a medical herbalist practising in Dr. O’Reilly’s integrative clinical practice in Clonakilty, Co. Cork as well as Church Cross, Skibbereen. She considers the integration of herbal medicine with biomedicine to be the future of health care, if the great traditional medical systems, […]
30,000 bed days and €24m can be saved per year – as experts welcome new National Clinical Guideline Screening and increased treatment to prevent malnutrition is planned for all patients admitted to Irish hospitals, as part of a new National Clinical Guideline on patient nutrition released this week. The key protocol is the […]
by Eoin Roe, Chiropractic The basics of health are universal for everyone and while being simple in concept they have huge effects on health and wellbeing. As with all things that seem simple at the outset they rarely are. Water “Every function of the body is monitored and pegged to the […]
Well the world has changed a lot in the last month. I would like to thank everyone for listening to the lockdown advice! Well done. It is not easy I know. In our GP setting, patients have quickly become used to telephone and ‘video’ consultations. There is a huge amount […]