From screentime to dinner time: how parents can improve family life, diet and relationships
The Healthy Families programme helps parents to implement gradual but significant improvements to family wellbeing
How keeping astronauts healthy can tell us what on Earth to do
Dr Lisa McNamee looks to space for the benefit of terrestrial medicine
Living with a brain tumour: ‘I knew something was wrong because the radiographers would not look at me’
People with brain tumours get world-class medical treatment in Ireland – but after that there can be a big gap
MND: There has to be ‘an acceptance, a letting go and, dare I say, a surrender’
Kevin Carroll, ambassador for this year’s Walk While You Can fundraising event for the Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association, and his wife Margaret have been navigating continuing changes to their lives since Kevin was diagnosed with MND
DNA testing: ‘Lo and behold, there’s a half-sibling or a full sibling one or two clicks away’
Consumer testing can throw up surprises, positive and negative. It’s like toothpaste coming out of a tube: ‘You can’t put it back in’
Assisted dying: ‘If I cannot consent to my own death, who owns my life?’
Polls show most of the public are in favour of access to assisted dying in certain circumstances, but many people, including individual doctors, are in two minds
Addiction and healing: ‘All of the things that you chase for happiness don’t actually make you happy’
Síolta, co-founded by Hannah Bowler and Wayne Dignam, is a co-operative of wellbeing practitioners aimed at enabling growth and connection
XL bully dogs: Is this the end for one of the most feared breeds in Ireland?
From October 1st the importing, breeding, selling and rehoming of XL bullies will be prohibited
Explaining suicide to a child: ‘Daddy stopped himself from living’
Safe Harbour, a picture storybook, paves the way and is possibly a world first in its comprehensiveness for this specific purpose
A double hip replacement: ‘I was afraid of my life but I have no pain whatsoever now’
Recovery after joint replacement is often quicker than patients anticipate, new research shows
Childhood cancer: ‘As soon as the ultrasound was turned on, they could see the tumour – it was large’
Even the end of treatment does not spell the end of parental anxiety, and a new peer-support network is being launched to help parents cope with what comes next
The ‘inpatients’ at home on a virtual ward: “The nurse was on to me in jig time: ‘Have you died or what?’”
Since its launch earlier this summer, the new service offering hospital care in the comfort of patients’ homes has been used by over 100 people
Young-onset dementia: ‘Nobody can tell us which day Wayne’s going to wake up and not know me’
Couple share their story of living with young-onset dementia, a condition that affects almost one in 10 cases of dementia in Ireland
Nearly half of dementia cases could be prevented or delayed by addressing ‘14 modifiable risk factors’
Things you can do to try to maintain good brain health include exercise and getting your vision and hearing checked
IBD: ‘I’ve known people who have been nervous to leave their house’
Despite more than 40,000 people in Ireland living with inflammatory bowel disease, it is still not widely spoken about