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Treatment

    lack of treatment
    Ireland needs 23 beds for eating disorders - but seven years on, there's still no sign of them
    More than 20 new beds were due to be made available since 2018 – but none were.
    Paul O'Donoghue
    25 Feb
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    Recovery
    COPD: 'I didn't understand why this was happening - I was active, healthy and never smoked'
    Denise Croke
    19 Nov 2024
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    Schizophrenia Awareness Day
    Opinion: Talking about mental health is fine but isn't it time we discussed mental illness?
    Nicola Byrne
    24 May 2023
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    Women's Health
    Dr Deirdre Lundy: Menopause may be 'natural' but that doesn't mean you have to put up with it
    Dr Deirdre Lundy
    2 Mar 2023
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    Progress
    New baseline concussion testing programme launched for GAA inter-county players
    5 Dec 2022
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    1
    menopause
    Call for zero VAT rate to be applied to HRT for women in menopause
    12 Aug 2022
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    Treatment
    Borussia Dortmund striker to undergo chemotherapy for testicular tumour
    30 Jul 2022
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    1
    British Medical Journal
    World Health Organization advises against use of two drugs for non-severe Covid-19
    14 Jul 2022
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    sma
    'Timing is key': Parents call for inclusion of rare genetic disease in newborn heel prick test
    28 Jun 2022
    12.2k
    2
    Obesity
    ‘We don’t stigmatise other conditions in the way that we stigmatise the problem of excess body weight'
    22 May 2022
    28.2k
    68
    reasearch
    Greater access to clinical trials for teens and young adults as cancer incidence rises in Ireland
    19 May 2022
    16.4k
    3
    Treatment
    Abuse of referees should not be accepted but is 'part and parcel of our game'
    11 May 2022
    4.2k
    4
    Treatment
    Tennis great Chris Evert reveals ovarian cancer diagnosis
    15 Jan 2022
    5.8k
    1
    Treatment
    UK approves ‘life-saving’ Pfizer antiviral to help at-risk Covid-19 patients
    31 Dec 2021
    26.3k
    38
    Treatment
    Irish ME patients hope HSE will follow UK and scrap exercise therapy guidance
    10 Nov 2021
    27.5k
    5
    Treatment
    Pele says he's 'recovering well' after surgery
    9 Sep 2021
    1.5k
    0
    Treatment
    US to try to develop antiviral pills that would reduce Covid-19 symptoms
    17 Jun 2021
    10.0k
    9
    Treatment
    'Role of family' in mental health patients' care to be considered in new legislation
    22 May 2021
    14.5k
    25
    Treatment
    Existing drug could treat ‘aggressive’ triple-negative breast cancer – study
    28 Jan 2021
    20.3k
    3
    Science
    Scientists say they may have discovered a new way to try to combat the virus that causes Covid-19
    21 Sep 2020
    121k
    72
    Trials
    Covid-19: The treatment and vaccine candidates showing promising results
    25 Aug 2020
    62.8k
    78
    covid19
    Heart attack patients taking 18 hours longer to present at hospital during lockdown
    24 Jun 2020
    8.6k
    4
    hydroxychloroquine
    Drug backed by Donald Trump does not help treat Covid-19, according to new research
    15 May 2020
    19.2k
    64
    covid19
    Public warned not to buy fake medicines that claim to treat or prevent coronavirus
    24 Mar 2020
    7.5k
    7
    Coronavirus
    Here are the potential Covid-19 vaccine and treatment options being developed
    18 Mar 2020
    46.0k
    18
    Breakthrough
    'A most wonderful Christmas present': HSE to reimburse cost of new cystic fibrosis treatment
    13 Dec 2019
    11.2k
    12
    remission
    'We should treat type 2 diabetes the way we treat cancer'
    14 Nov 2019
    11.3k
    35
    Irish Water
    Raw sewage from 77,000 people in Ireland flowing into environment every day
    13 Nov 2019
    27.8k
    47
    cancer treatment
    Irish research on type of breast cancer may have found new treatment approach
    3 Oct 2019
    15.4k
    2
    Treatment
    'Undetectable equals Untransmittable': The importance of Gareth Thomas' HIV message
    16 Sep 2019
    40.7k
    21
    Treatment
    Champion jockey Smullen to undergo chemotherapy after suffering health setback
    22 Aug 2019
    9.1k
    5
    Health
    Clinical trials involving Irish patients 'saved the health service €13m' over two years
    20 May 2019
    9.1k
    3
    Treatment
    'It all started with my balls' - Colm Tóibín's moving essay about cancer is a must-read
    12 Apr 2019
    33.3k
    14
    Seeking Help
    'It has become a destructive pattern': Olympic champion seeks treatment for alcohol addiction
    9 Oct 2018
    10.7k
    2
    Anorexia
    High Court rules that woman weighing five stone and refusing food in HSE care may be force-fed
    30 Aug 2018
    14.6k
    cervical check
    Woman affected by Cervical Check scandal says cancer has spread to her lymph system
    15 Jun 2018
    17.2k
    10
    lois bridges
    'Serious concerns' over private treatment centre for people with anorexia
    7 Jun 2018
    21.3k
    4
    doubt
    A nation holds its breath as Mo Salah travels to Spain for treatment
    28 May 2018
    8.4k
    7
    cardiac arrest
    'You're just buying time': Former Tipperary captain describes performing CPR on man
    8 May 2018
    17.4k
    7
    RIP
    'My gladiator lay down his shield and gained his wings': Alfie Evans dies aged 23 months
    28 Apr 2018
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