Nicotine pouches in schools: ‘This is heading towards epidemic proportions’
Citing health concerns, some are calling for restrictions on the sale of these widely available products; others say using them can help reduce more harmful practices
Irish Heart Foundation
Admission of stroke patients to specialist care units ‘well below target’, audit shows
Almost 2,000 missed out on being admitted to centres that help cut chances of disability and death from the condition
‘Farmers are phoning me to join the fitness classes and I have a waiting list’
The central pillars of the Fit Farmers programme are diet, movement, sleep and stress management for a better work-life balance
Tax leads to significant decline in consumption of sugary drinks
Sugar Sweetened Drinks Tax sees 25 per cent drop in consumption of sugary drinks
Charity calls for new taxes on vapes to address ‘youth vaping epidemic’
Irish Heart Foundation says action is needed to save teenagers from lifelong nicotine addiction
Traffic plan will cost Dublin €400m a year, says report for traders opposed to car curbs
Economic analysis submitted to council chief Richard Shakespeare warns of job losses
Irish hospital admissions due to hot weather projected to rise
ESRI analysis found increased hospitalisation on hot days, with circulatory and respiratory issues among most common
Dublin City Council chief spurns commuter, environmental and health groups opposed to watering down of transport plan
Richard Shakespeare ‘unavailable’ to meet civil society groups concerned about changes to and potential delay of proposals
Dublin City Centre Transport Plan: Council urged to reverse ‘last minute changes’ to proposal
Civil society groups seek meeting with Dublin City Council chief executive Richard Shakespeare
Tobacco sales: Raising legal age to 21 should be ‘stepping stone’ to complete phase-out, charity says
Irish Heart Foundation says decision to increase to 21 the age at which a person can legally be sold tobacco ‘one of the most important public health measures’
Legal age for sale of cigarettes to be raised to 21 as decline in smoking rate plateaus
Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly to also draft legislation to address the thousands of flavours of vapes
Cardiac arrest survival rates in urban areas 40% higher than rural settings, research finds
Out of more than 18,000 cardiac arrests examined, just in excess of 1,000 patients survived to hospital discharge
Cardiovascular disease: The case for doing more on illness prevention, rather than just treatment
Rethinking how to keep people well promises a ‘win win’ for the State and the individual
Community First Responders: ‘She thought we were angels that had dropped out of the sky’
A network of volunteers speedily help save lives in incidents of heart attack, cardiac arrest and stroke
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