Sitting at a desk all week? Three minutes of exercise every half-hour can counter its effects
Taking 15 steps from your desk twice an hour improves blood sugar control, study shows
Acid reflux: What it is, and how to avoid it
Following a Mediterranean diet and cutting back on smoking can help reduce acid reflux
How exercise may improve the immune system’s ability to fight cancer
Working out may help the immune system target cancer cells, new study in mice suggests
‘It’s like family’: the housing experiment designed to cure loneliness
A radical new scheme in Sweden offers homes to different ages and backgrounds – and insists that they (safely) mingle
Nobel prize for medicine won by cancer researchers
Two immunologists win award for work on a new approach to cancer treatment
Trinity College slips in latest global university rankings
Alarm among academics over impact of funding ‘crisis’ on third level
‘As a fat, pregnant woman, I am here to tell other pregnant women not to panic’
Ignore the scaremongering: the risks of being overweight are overplayed
Blood-thinning drugs may protect against dementia, stroke – study
Scientists analysed health record data from more than 444,000 patients over eight years
Tick, tock goes the biological clock: Nobel prize for US scientists
Work stems back to 1984 when scientists isolated the ’period gene’ in fruit flies
Trinity College climbs up global university rankings
Brexit offers ‘opportunities’ for Irish universities but funding increases are necessary
Passive smoking in youth can increase lung cancer risk
Issue for non-smokers arises if genetic factors exist while obesity a contributor, meeting hears
Japanese scientist wins Nobel prize for work on ‘self-eating’ cells
Study could lead to a better understanding of diseases like cancer, Parkinson’s and type 2 diabetes
‘The healthcare system contributes very little to your health’
Opinion: ‘If we are not concerned with delivering value to patients, we are failing’
Irish-born scientist wins 2015 Nobel Prize for medicine
Donegal native and TCD graduate William Campbell jointly given award for work against parasitic diseases
Tall people more likely to get cancer, says study
Risk of developing cancer increases by 11% for men and 18% for women for every extra 10cm
Son of Irish emigrants wins Nobel Prize for medicine
John O’Keefe jointly won for discovering how brain’s inner position system works
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