A baby girl aged seven months has died after being left in a car during a heatwave for five hours. Doctors worked "so hard" yesterday to save the infant, named locally as Chloe Fogarty, after she was found "unresponsive" in her father's car at 1.30pm in the village of Dundrum, Co Tipperary.more
The number of accidents involving passengers on the Tube has risen to a record high of almost 5,000 a year, the Standard reveals today. It spiralled to 4,928 last year, an 11 per cent increase from 2015, amid fears that overcrowding and fewer staff at smaller stations are fuelling the rise.more
The Polish Seym passed a health care law yesterday that provides provisions to facilitate access to non-standard health and life-threatening treatments, and also provides that "day after" pills will be sold on prescription.more
A Gatwick airport worker has warned against the dangers of the capital's "vicious" crows after a group of birds launched an attack on the playing fields of an exclusive prep school.more
Growing up among the high-rises, smog and bustling streets of a city may significantly increase the risk of psychotic episodes such as hearing voices and paranoia, a new study has shown.more
More than 85% of bathing water sites monitored across Europe in 2016 met the most stringent 'excellent' quality standards - meaning they were mostly free from pollutants harmful to human health and the environment, according to the annual bathing water quality report published today.more
A woman has been awarded €40,000 after she slipped on a chip in the food court area of the Liffey Valley Shopping Centre in Dublin. Mother-of-four Lina Misiunaite said her ankle went over and she injured her knee as she walked through the food court.
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As Britain basks in its warmest weather since September, barbecue-goers have been warned to check their meat is properly cooked to avoid a mutant strain of hepatitis E found in one in ten sausages.more
Despite the country's growing obesity trends, Ireland has been deemed as the fittest country in the world, according to Fitbit. The fitness-tracking organisation has revealed its Fittest Countries 2017 rankings, using aggregated and anonymous data from more than 20 million Fitbit users across the globe.more
Sales of rosemary have boomed after research found the herb could help students studying for exams, figures suggest. Holland & Barrett said it has ordered extra stocks of rosemary essential oil after it saw sales almost double compared with the same point last year.more
Redbridge Council's health and wellbeing board heard how 19% of infant deaths between 2008 and 2016 were 'attributable to consanguineous relationships'.more
Health trusts across England were sent details of a patch that would have kept them safe from the ransomware used in the huge cyber attack, according to NHS Digital.more
The health of London's children is being blighted by poverty that sees families struggle to feed themselves and heat their homes, according to a new survey of children's doctors.more
Another major cyber-attack could be imminent after Friday's global hit that infected more than 125,000 computer systems, security experts have warned.more
Britain is spending around 50 million pounds ($64 million) on improving the security of the National Health Service's computer systems and had warned the NHS it faced cyber threats, defense minister Michael Fallon said on Sunday.more
Cannabis sales would be legalised for the over 18s in a push to stamp out mental health problems caused by skunk, under Liberal Democrat plans published today.more
Amber Rudd told the BBC the services of 45 NHS organisations in England and Scotland had been disrupted in the global attack that affected organisations across the world.more