‘Hospital at home’: How to safely keep vulnerable older people out of emergency departments this winter
Doctors hope that enhanced community care programmes around the country are beginning to have a positive impact
Rare diseases require clinical innovation — being open to all possibilities
‘You can’t ever hang your hat on just one thing … because you don’t know what’s going to work’
Within a fortnight of starting solids, baby should be eating iron-rich foods
Your baby’s food between six and 12 months is all about introducing new tastes and textures
How to introduce your baby to solid foods
Guideline indicates as close to 26 weeks as possible, but don’t delay beyond this point
Expert tips: Advice on home changes that may help as we age
With arthritis it’s important not to put stress on joints, so use gadgets to assist you like bottle openers and cap turners
Expert tips: How to deal with persistent panic attacks
Key to dealing with issue is to ride out incidents and challenge beliefs leading to them
Expert tips: Benefits of exercise for pregnant women can’t be stressed enough
Advice from the clinical director of a specialist pelvic and women’s health physiotherapy clinic
If it’s not Covid, what is it? How to care for a sick child this winter
Consultant Dr Paddy Fitzpatrick on recognising illnesses, and when to seek medical help
Expert tips: Advice to women about pelvic health
Pelvic floor, prolapse, painful sex: Women’s health problems that physiotherapy can ease
‘Tis the season to be aware of SAD
Seasonal Affective Disorder is very similar to depression as we classically know it but it has a qualifier in that it has a seasonal pattern
Expert tips: Changing the story of how we feel and think about ourselves
Catriona Larkin gives some advice for managing anxiety, stress and worries
How to cope with Christmas when you are in recovery from addiction
Planning is key to dealing with challenges that arise in the festive season
Finding the treatments of the future for pain relief
Digital pain management programmes could tackle shortage of pain psychologists
How to support a loved one with an eating disorder
Listen, ask questions and learn: psychotherapist Harriet Parsons offers some advice from the PiLaR support programme for Bodywhys
How to protect your ears and hearing at every age
Audiologists Bronagh O’Donnell and Ciarán Clifford give tips on healthy hearing