The many kinds of general practitioner

Delivering a soundbite is not too different from giving a take-home message to a patient

Good weather can be bad for your health, experts warn

Recent days have seen deaths involving swimming, gardening and sunbathing

Want to live a healthier life? Here’s what GPs advise

We ask four doctors for their top tips on how to live a healthy life. Here are their answers...

Stop idling: turn off your SUV engine at the school gates

You wouldn’t light a cigarette when near a child, so what’s different about car fumes?

A doctor’s view: Why we feel helpless on obesity issue

It is hard to get message across to children, particularly if their parents are overweight

Medical matters: Want to learn how to save someone’s life?

Operation Resuscitation is teaching a Co Kerry community to do CPR and use a defibrillator

Healthy Town blog: The smart way to kick bad habits

Take stock, set goals, re-form habits and refocus: ditching harmful routines sounds easy

Cracking bad habit down to try ... and try again

Dr Pat Harrold says concentration key to making breakthrough to healthier lifestyle

Healthy Town blog: A chance encounter lowers the blood pressure

‘High blood pressure is a huge risk so it’s important to get checked out’

Medical Matters: The TV programme that gets the public moving has my vote

Medical Matters: A day in the life of a GP – doing 90% of the work for 2% of the budget

Medical Matters: There’s a whole world of new personality disorders out there

Medical Matters: What change could one man bring to, or from, a place like Sierra Leone?

It was the 1980s and Paul Simon’s Graceland had put African music in the charts. Medical students like me raised money to go to work in hospitals in Africa for the summer. It was generally conceded, by those going to more glamorous East African countries, that I had drawn the short straw

Medical Matters: Supporting the local chemist and our health