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Parkinson’s disease: What is it, who gets it and what does the future hold?

Primarily a movement disorder, the main initial symptoms of Parkinson's disease are tremors and the condition comes with several variations

Epilepsy: What is it and what does the future hold as treatments improve?

Specialists explain the causes, treatments and outlook for a condition that affects about 45,000 people in Ireland

The interactions between your genes and your medicines

‘We should do all we can to make sure we are taking drugs that suit our genes’

Multiple Sclerosis: What is it and what does the future hold as treatments improve?

MS is an incurable neurological autoimmune disease most commonly diagnosed in people in their 20s, 30s and 40s. It is more common in women. A number of disease-modifying drugs can treat it

Clinical trials are the way forward for radiotherapy

Research Lives: Prof Sinead Brennan, radiation oncologist at St Luke’s and St James’s Hospitals and Trinity St James’s Cancer Institute

Overdose reversal drugs made available for users in Dublin under new scheme

Pilot initiative provides free naloxone kits to patients at St James’s Hospital

Staff shortages force closure of 16-bed psychiatric unit in Dublin

Step-down unit at St James’s Hospital is due to close on August 21st due to staffing shortages

Smart D8: Tech innovations tackling health and social challenges in Dublin

Technological innovations tackle health and social challenges in Dublin

Hospital to homeless: ‘The most important thing for me is my recovery. I have to protect that at all time’

Inadequate services are causing ‘preventable harm and suffering’ to homeless people after they are discharged from hospital, health expert warns

Researchers and sufferers of Tinnitus gather to find a cure for this mysterious condition

Many healthcare professionals have a poor understanding of tinnitus and its impact on people’s health

‘With music therapy, you learn how to tap into the subconscious’

Marina Cassidy on how instruments, melody and rhythm can help patients with issues around anxiety, speech and dementia

Getting cancer at 21: ‘They ended up finding a 10cm tumour in my chest’

Getting the diagnosis can be a massive retrograde step for any young person

Almost 1,300 people died due to delays in hospital admission from A&E, data suggests

Excess deaths among Irish patients in winter period up to January 29th rose to 1,278

Dublin woman died after choking on croissant, inquest hears

Maria FitzGerald (70) was placed on a ventilator as a result of injuries but died five days after choking incident

Sligo man died from burns suffered in hot bath at his home

Seán Giblin (57) initially didn’t think he needed to see a doctor after scalding himself with hot tap

Seen & Heard: Kerry revives co-op talks over dairy deal

Deal could value business at about €600 million

New children’s hospital to break fresh ground in digital healthcare

A key part of the new children’s hospital will be digital technology, with everything from patient records to the systems controlling the hospital building being digitalised

Blood cancer patients to benefit from first use of ‘living drug’ to treat multiple myeloma

First Irish trial to treat patients with Car-T immunotherapy opens at St James’s Hospital in Dublin

‘You have a vision, but no plan’: health officials face scrutiny over electronic records

Long-planned HSE digitisation project ‘only at the starting line’, Oireachtas committee hears

Cycling injuries on Luas tracks ‘a significant public health issue’, study finds

Analysis of injuries at St James’s Hospital finds Luas tracks at College Green a particular ‘black spot’

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