Medical Matters: Insights into mental health of teens provide useful template for lifeA report shows older teenagers the most likely cohort to need inpatient psychiatric treatment for the first timeMon Nov 17 2014 - 01:00
Respiratory disease overview: an often undiagnosed conditionMuiris Houston looks at the symptoms, causes, treatments and prevention of the conditionMon Nov 03 2014 - 19:31
Diabetes overview: controlling an insulin conditionMuiris Houstons looks at causes, signs, symptoms, prevention, treatment and useful resources.Mon Nov 03 2014 - 17:52
Allergies: not to be sneezed atFrom hay fever to eczema, allergies can cause severe discomfort for sufferersMon Nov 03 2014 - 14:13
Medical Matters: Our every impulse is to fight – but can you live longer if you stop trying?Limitations of medicine leave doctors, patients and families facing quandriesMon Nov 03 2014 - 01:00
Heart disease overview: prevention rather than cureDr Muiris Houston looks at signs and symtoms of heart disease, as well as ways to prevent and treat it.Tue Oct 28 2014 - 17:13
Stroke overview: time for FAST actionDr Muiris Houston examines the signs symptoms and diagnosis related to a stroke as well as prevention, control and some useful resources.Tue Oct 28 2014 - 16:52
Arthritis overview: managing the painDr Muiris Houston looks at causes, signs and symptons of arthritis, as well as its prevention and treatment.Tue Oct 28 2014 - 16:15
Medical Matters: Chicken soup for a cold: why fowl solution can be better than antibioticsComfort food can help when pills are powerless against common cold virusMon Oct 27 2014 - 01:00
Research supports Irish decision not to screen for EbolaAnalysis projects fewer than three people with virus will travel on an international flight every monthTue Oct 21 2014 - 14:04
An effective, if unpalatable, gut function treatmentA significant breakthrough in the science of faecal therapyMon Oct 20 2014 - 01:00
Ebola takes heaviest toll among healthcare workersDeath rate at 57% in worst-hit west African countries, says World Health OrganisationThu Oct 16 2014 - 01:00
Ebola risk low but we need high level protocolsTrained health staff, not airport checks, can protect Irish people from EbolaSat Oct 11 2014 - 01:00
Medical Matters: Hopes for breakthrough as male contraceptive looks good with baboonsMon Oct 06 2014 - 01:00
Audit of ICU facilities needed after Kivlehan inquestAnalysis: inquest raises questions about clinical care, writes Muiris Houston.Tue Sept 30 2014 - 01:00
Medical Matters: Nothing humorous about diagnosing a patient’s ‘funny turn’It can be quite a challenge to unravel what a patient really means by the termMon Sept 22 2014 - 01:00
Keeping a patient asleep during surgery is a delicate operationAnaesthesia is said to be about 50 times safer now than in the 1980sThu Sept 11 2014 - 19:37
Former president of IMO resigns in protestDr Paula Gilvarry says union cannot maintain confidence of doctorsSat Sept 06 2014 - 01:00
The future doctor: moderator, not sageWill healthcare soon be driven by patients rather than doctors?Sat Sept 06 2014 - 01:00
Medical Matters: Errors of medication: serious side effects and the seven deadly drugsTue Sept 02 2014 - 01:00
WHO report on e-cigarettes could be a case of smoke without fireAnalysis: Some research done on risks and benefits of e-cigarettes, but more neededWed Aug 27 2014 - 01:00
What are the chances of Ebola spreading?What are the implications for others if virus is diagnosed? asks Dr Muiris HoustonThu Aug 21 2014 - 20:07
Abortion case raises a number of clinical dilemmasAnalysis: In this case the Act failed to offer guidance on most appropriate responseTue Aug 19 2014 - 22:23
Chances of Ebola spreading in developed world are extremely lowCompared with a virulent influenza outbreak, Ebola is far less contagiousSat Aug 09 2014 - 01:00
Eating more than five fruit and veg a day may be waste of timeResearch says going beyond recommended number of portions may have no further benefitWed Jul 30 2014 - 08:22
Medical Matters: Physical examination allows doctors apply the human touch to patientsMon Jul 28 2014 - 12:40
Medical Matters: Take care, generic drugs could be a prescription for confusion and misuseMon Jul 21 2014 - 17:00
Medical Matters: Sars-like virus Mers would have to adapt genetically to threaten usMon Jul 07 2014 - 18:00
Medical Matters: Suspension of surgery for obesity the worst type of HSE ‘slash and burn’ careMon Jun 23 2014 - 13:00
A doctor writes: how to survive the heatOur adaptation to heat is dependent on the body’s ability to act as a natural cooling systemWed Jun 18 2014 - 13:40
Medical Matters: Eat, drink and be merry, for being Irish may be enough to kill youMon Jun 02 2014 - 16:00
Medical Matters: Unnecessary checks sap resources better spent on poor peopleThey might seem sensible, but there is little evidence that having a periodic health check does any goodMon May 26 2014 - 16:00
Square meals and bottled benefits: don’t abandon chocolate and red wine just yetPractising medicine in modern times, doctors must be wary of becoming part of the “health police”Tue May 20 2014 - 01:00
Medical Matters: A Trinity of memoriesBody snatching and other tales from TCD medical school’s history in Coakley’s bookMon May 12 2014 - 18:30
Ireland has highest rate of invasive meningitis in Europe, conference hearsMany children critically ill before they receive medical attentionThu May 08 2014 - 01:00
Medial Matters: Medical thrillers turn into reality as post-antibiotic era is almost upon usMon May 05 2014 - 17:08
Medical Matters: What the frack?We need to examine the health risks of fracking before granting licences, writes Muiris HoustonMon Apr 28 2014 - 20:00
Medical Matters: Loneliness of the long-distance neighbourLoneliness can be a health risk on par with smoking and not getting enough exerciseMon Apr 14 2014 - 18:00
Tony Benn, Earl Grey and William Gladstone can’t all be wrong, can they?The good, the bad and the Bergamot: the health effects of teaMon Apr 07 2014 - 15:00
Six reasons why the universal health care plan is likely to failOpinion: Project would need long-term planning and fundingFri Apr 04 2014 - 00:01
Medical Matters: A Doctor without a stethoscope?Could we be on the cusp of a revolutionary change in medicine?Mon Mar 31 2014 - 19:00
