Some words of caution before you buy a medical self-testing kit
Dr Muiris Houston: Many self-tests are unfit for purpose and need greater regulation to ensure safety and reliability, studies find
British Medical Association
A GP strike could be the beginning of the end of free primary care in Northern Ireland
Minister for Health Mike Nesbitt’s negotiating tactics are remarkably aggressive. Has he overplayed his hand?
‘Come to Ireland, get well paid and a holiday’: The GPs lured from the UK to Ireland
An increase in UK doctors seeking work in Ireland is being linked to geographical proximity and difficulties in the NHS
Smartphone bans in isolation fail to equip children for healthy use of tech, say experts
‘Schools, teachers and parents require training and guidance to help them support children’s healthy use of technology’
‘Where I come from, people don’t do medicine. It’s not on your radar’: how a new generation of doctors is being trained
Lower tuition fees and living costs in Derry are attracting more medical students from diverse backgrounds across the island
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
Business counts the cost of CrowdStrike outage
Cybersecurity group’s glitchy security software update sees its shares slide almost 30% over past week
Could microdosing with psychedelics help treat depression?
Psychedelics are back in vogue, but some doctors, researchers and indeed patients are more cautious about results
‘Northern Ireland is broken’: how a ‘toxic’ culture and better pay is enticing North’s doctors across the Border
Doctors in the North can earn two and a half times what they make with the NHS in the health service in the South
Consultant doctors in NI to be balloted on industrial action
Dispute over pay continues as doctors say they no longer feel valued
HSE ‘encouraged’ by early reaction to overseas recruitment campaign for hospital consultants
Online interest in roles in Ireland spiked but too early to say what final number of hires will be says organisation that recruited just 110 new consultants since March
Nobody can seriously claim Northern Ireland is thriving in the UK
With public services buckling, poor educational outcomes, and no functioning executive, the Union is a hard sell
British Medical Association junior doctors to go ahead with three-day strike
In absence of ‘credible offer’ from health secretary, industrial action set to proceed on Monday
Irish researchers discover potential link between smoking and male impotence
More than 1,000 are hospitalised for disease caused by smoking each year
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Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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