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Spreading the message that tobacco causes deadly illnesses such as heart disease and stroke helps prevent "needless" loss of life, United Nations health experts said on Thursday.more

The current ski flying world champion Daniel Andre Tande was treated in the hospital in May after detecting Stevens-Johnson syndrome.more

While Leo Varadkar is confident legislation can be passed through the Oireachtas in the autumn, he said it will be next year before the full effect of the referendum to repeal the Eighth Amendment comes into force. Speaking in the Dáil, he said the Government is committed to legislating for abortions, but it will take a number of steps to give effect to the people's decision.more

More than 22,000 children in the UK are classed as severely obese by the time they leave primary school in year 6. The number of 10 and 11-year-olds classed as severely obese in the final year of school is nearly double that of those in reception, new figures have revealed.more

Irish patients fed up of long hospital waiting lists are increasingly heading abroad for treatment - with the HSE picking up the bill.more

Britons overwhelmingly want Theresa May to relax immigration rules to allow more non-EU doctors into the country to fill empty NHS posts, a poll reveals today.more

Former president George HW Bush was taken to a hospital in Maine on Sunday after experiencing low blood pressure and fatigue, a family spokesman said.more

Obese employees should be allowed to turn up later for work and be protected under discrimination laws, a government adviser has said.more

Social media stars might be encouraging children to eat more unhealthy snacks, a new study suggests. It found children who saw popular vloggers consuming sugary and fatty snacks went on to eat 26% more calories than those who did not.more

Tax may need to rise to historically high levels in order to give the NHS the money it needs to cope with an ageing population, a new report suggests.more

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said it was "life experience" that changed his mind about the Eighth Amendment. The former Health Minister said that he believes the Eighth Amendment is currently "too restrictive" since 2014.more

There are at least 10.5 million Poles suffering from hypertension, but it is less than half of them aware of it - experts in Warsaw were alarming and encouraged to regularly measure the pressure on the Vistula River.more

"Smart technology" will cross-reference individual patients' medical records, habits, and genetic data with national databases to help identify those with the disease, the Prime Minister will announce today.more

Patients at a care home in Liverpool did't have a bath or shower for nearly two months, the health watchdog said.more

The World Health Organisation have announced they will send an experimental, unlicensed ebola vaccine to the Democratic Republic of Congo in response to an outbreak of the deadly disease. more

The nation forks out €264 per head of population on takeaways such as pizza and pizza - up 19% since 2012. Figures from Euromonitor International show fast food has risen steadily in popularity over the past five years.more

The prestigious British Medical Journal has called for all drugs to be legalised - pointing out the vast sums the current 'war on drugs' is costing.more

A heatmap has exposed the most dangerous parts of London for moped crime as figures show how the number of incidents has surged in the past five years.more

A consultant gynaecologist caused a premature baby to be accidentally decapitated inside as she carried out a delivery on an NHS maternity unit, a medical tribunal heard.more

Junk food adverts are set to be banned from the London Underground under new proposals unveiled on Friday by Sadiq Khan. The plans include a ban on all adverts for food and drink high in fat, salt or sugar across the entire Transport for London network, including buses.more

Doris Olive Netting, known to everyone as Olive, was born on May 4, 1918 in Plymouth, Devon but credits her long healthy life to the Irish dry stout. Mrs Netting has been drinking a glass of 'the black stuff' everyday since her early 30s after a campaign stating that the drink contained high levels of iron was launched.more

Medics will ask 999 callers to show them live video footage of patients before deciding whether to send ambulances, under NHS plans.more

Former Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson is out of intensive care after undergoing emergency surgery for a brain haemorrhage, the Premier League club said on Wednesday night.more

Three major supermarkets have issued an urgent recall of some of their products.more

More than 70 per cent of those who are training and will soon qualify as nurses are considering leaving the State, according to a survey by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO).more