:quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/BZKOMOUUIJCMXLS4UU3LIUJKPE.jpg "Cocaine and Irish women: ‘I’m a wife. I’m a mother. I have a career. I’m a user’")
Earlier this week the Health Research Board (HRB) revealed that, along with recording the highest number of drug treatment cases on record last year, there has...
Every Christmas day, Naomi James came to church with a bag of gifts for people she loved and that generosity filled every minute of her 38...
External reviews are to be conducted into the deaths of two pregnant women at maternity units in Kerry and Cork in recent weeks, while a third...
Anyone who has had a urinary tract infection knows how agonising they can be. Some infections go away on their own, but many need antibiotics. Beneath...
As women go through menopause, the amount of estrogen receptors (ER) in their brains increases. This change is linked to both reproductive and cognitive functions, regardless...
Medical research has shortchanged women for decades. This is particularly true of older women, leaving physicians without critically important information about how to best manage their...
“[O]ur study demonstrates that the supplementing with 2,000 mg/day of whole Ganoderma lucidum extract for eight weeks positively regulates the expression of genes associated with activating...
The study, co-authored by cranberry expert Dr. Amy Howell, used a combination of in vitro bioassays and ex vivo urine analyses to compare the anti-adhesion activity of the two...
Researchers conducted a secondary analysis on the Women First Preconception Maternal Nutrition Trial and found high rates of maternal hypozincaemia despite daily zinc supplementation for the...
Every year, more than 3,700 people (99% of whom are female) are diagnosed with breast cancer in Ireland. But while most are over the age of 50,...
Despite the concerning statistics, the researchers also highlighted the fact that the Irish population was among the least likely to have been diagnosed with hypertension or...
Share on PinterestA new study finds getting an epidural can lead to a lower risk of certain complications. Yoss Sabalet/Getty Images Getting an epidural during labor...