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Five years after Covid, we scorn health workers, ignore vaccines and work in our offices
What happened to the need to end commuting and presenteeism? Or to our gratitude for healthcare workers or our resolution to change how we care for older people?
What is HMPV, is it in Ireland, and how worried should we be?
In China authorities say they are dealing with an outbreak of human metapneumovirus – but it is not something to be alarmed about
Biden calls Meta’s decision to drop fact-checking ‘really shameful’
Comments follow Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to replace fact-checking departments with company-moderated community notes
HMPV Q&A: Cases of human metapneumovirus are surging in China. What is it?
Medical experts say that despite surface similarities with Covid-19 pandemic the situation is very different
Two women who refused to enter hotel quarantine after Covid-19 Dubai trip plead not guilty
Kirstie McGrath (33) and Niamh Mulreany (28) lost Supreme Court challenge to constitutionality of mandatory hotel quarantine
Flu season is predicted to peak next week. Why is Ireland not better prepared?
Difficulty predicting numbers leave HSE having to adapt - with potential cold snap accidents adding to pressure
Government submits second payment request under EU’s post-pandemic recovery fund
December 2024 request for €115.5 million in grants is contingent on a series of performance targets
Ten predictions experts made about the world in 2025. All of them are wrong
When it comes to predicting the future, you might as well ask an astrologer as a rational expert
Will Robert F Kennedy jnr ‘go wild’ on health issues in the US and how will this play out?
Dr Muiris Houston: Rocky times ahead for US healthcare, with several flagged changes set to have global repercussions
Irish health system report card: a year of criticisms, concerns and innovations
From rows about staffing, waiting lists and cost overruns to resignations of senior staff, heathcare was never far from the news headlines in 2024
My battle with Long Covid: I was in disbelief. Was I making it up? How could I not stand up while the kettle boiled?
There is an uncanny silence around Long Covid, no recognised recovery pathway, and a lack of meaningful medical support. But there is hope: many people are recovering and research progress is being made
UK doctors and nurses with long Covid to sue for compensation
Health workers who fell ill on Covid pandemic frontline sue employers as they confront life-changing disabilities
School attendance among pupils drops significantly since Covid-19 pandemic
About 42% of primary pupils in disadvantaged areas are missing more than 20 days of school, an increase linked to the Covid-19 pandemic
More than 600 people hospitalised with Covid, flu and RSV, says HSE
Almost 2,000 cases of three illnesses notified and EDs have seen significant increases in presentations
Flu cases: Three people have died and over 400 hospitalised this winter season
The number of notified influenza cases increased by 91 per cent in the past week from 277 to 528 cases for the week ending December 8th
Disinformation around vaccines will get worse, says WHO head
Dr Mike Ryan says a new approach is required to engage with people on the benefits of medical treatment
Q&A: Is it too late to get the flu vaccine this year to be covered for Christmas?
There has been a rise in cases of influenza and high levels are expected between Christmas and the New Year, interim Chief Medical Officer Prof Mary Horgan has warned
High Court upholds US court’s annulment of Irish marriage entered into during Covid
Annulment granted on grounds that ‘the parties felt under pressure to proceed with the wedding’ given the cancellations due to pandemic restrictions
Covid factor chills profits at pharma group West
US packaging giant backing huge demand for injectable obesity drugs to fill the gap left by falling demand for Covid vaccines
Dublin riots left north inner city youth ‘traumatised’ by the stigma of violence
Many young people remain on edge and feel unfairly blamed for the violence, while local youth workers question a system that ‘allows people to be born into poverty’
Trump names TV doctor Mehmet Oz as Medicare, Medicaid chief
Oz was an informal health adviser to Trump during Covid-19, when he promoted the use of hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria drug that was not approved to treat the coronavirus
Gilead’s Irish business sees profit slump on falling sales of Covid drug
Business which accounts for close to one-third of group sales also took in €437m in dividends from subsidiaries dotted worldwide
Trump nominates vaccine sceptic Robert F Kennedy jnr to run US health department
Appointment would put Kennedy, who sowed doubts about Covid-19 vaccines, in charge of a department with a $1.8 trillion budget
Whooping cough cases in country increase by 3,000% in a year
Latest figures show 567 cases in Ireland up to November 9th, compared to 18 cases in 2023
Hybrid working gains made during pandemic must be protected, Fórsa election document says
Pay increases that go above rate of inflation among other key issues next government must address, says union
Irish chefs return to the kitchen in post-Covid bounce
Fáilte Ireland research has identified a softening of difficulty in filling key hospitality roles, although staff concerns linger
Supreme Court rejects ‘wafer thin’ arguments by women who refused hotel quarantine after Dubai trip
Niamh Mulreany (27) and Kirstie McGrath (32) had appealed High Court dismissal of their challenge to lockdown prosecution
Robert Kennedy jnr’s influence over Donald Trump sparks Big Pharma alarm
Vaccine sceptic expected to hold sway over health policy and top appointments
Covid-19 left deep scars in Irish society. Those whose lives were lost or upended deserve better
People need, want and deserve a proper accounting of the successes and failures of the handling of the pandemic
RIP FF-FG-Green Coalition, 2020-2024 - Miriam Lord’s look back at the Government
Three taoisigh, five budgets and a global pandemic: in unprecedented times it was a government like no other
This is the ‘Yes Minister’ approach to a Covid inquiry
An 'evaluation' is not an inquiry. But the question of what happened in nursing homes will not go away
Gillian Welch: ‘The community outpouring was incredible here in Nashville. This album is our giant thank-you note’
In 2020, just before Covid hit the US, a tornado hit the country music star’s studio. She and David Rawlings responded with Woodland
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