Category: Health

Ireland’s Department of Health has published its Statement of Strategy 2025–2028, outlining how the health system aims to respond to growing demographic pressures, shifting public-health demands and a rapidly changing global environment. The new roadmap sets the tone for the next three years, with officials describing it as a blueprint for delivering “the right care […]

Prostock-studio/Shutterstock.com Online short-form video has shifted from a light distraction to a constant backdrop in many children’s lives. What used to fill a spare moment now shapes how young people relax, communicate and form opinions, with TikTok, Instagram Reels, Douyin and YouTube Shorts drawing in hundreds of millions of under-18s through endlessly personalised feeds. These […]

Pikselstock/Shutterstock.com There are more than 1.4 million appointments a day in general practice in England. Traditionally, patients booked by telephone, braving the “8am scramble”. However, a higher proportion of people are now contacting their GP surgery online than by phone, according to new data from the Office for National Statistics. The UK government recently instructed […]

Dublin, 9 December 2025 — The Government has launched Ireland’s first National Policy Framework for Adult Safeguarding in the Health and Social Care Sector, marking a major step toward strengthening protections for adults at risk of abuse or harm. The framework was unveiled today by Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill and Minister of State for Older […]

Pranithan Chorruangsak/Shutterstock Stroke is one of the leading causes of serious and complex adult disability; anyone reading this could be the next stroke survivor. Every day in the UK, 240 people of all ages wake up to the effects of stroke: unable to move, see, speak or even swallow. Many survivors describe stroke as a […]

create jobs 51/Shutterstock If you watched Kim Kardashian’s latest health update and felt a jolt at the phrase “holes on the brain”, you were not alone. It is a term that sounds catastrophic. Yet on the type of scan she had, a hole does not mean missing tissue. It signals a region working at a […]

The digital revolution has become a vast, unplanned experiment – and children are its most exposed participants. As ADHD diagnoses rise around the world, a key question has emerged: could the growing use of digital devices be playing a role? To explore this, we studied more than 8,000 children, from when they were around ten […]

The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported continued circulation of all known clades of the mpox virus (MPXV) as countries work to contain outbreaks across multiple regions. In its latest External Situation Report #60, covering data up to late November 2025, the agency notes that while global case numbers are trending downward, the risk of […]

You might think good sleep happens in your brain, but restorative sleep actually begins much lower in the body: in the gut. The community of trillions of microbes living in your digestive tract, known as the gut microbiome, plays a powerful role in regulating sleep quality, mood and overall wellbeing. When the gut microbiome is […]

If you’ve been celebrating the news that the government will save you £500 a year on baby formula, we’re sorry to be the bearer of bad news: that’s not what’s actually happening. The UK government has just published its response to a Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) investigation into high baby formula prices, and media […]