#Health


What is Addison’s Disease?

In 1855 Thomas Addison, an English physician and scientists first discovered the disease after there was an outbreak of tuberculosis while he was working at Guy’s Hospital in London.  Complications arising from the tuberculosis caused the patients’adrenal glands to fail. Nowadays TB is... 

Free Health and Fitness Apps

Here is a guide to some of the Top Fitness, Weight Loss and Nutrition apps! The best part is they are all free! Moves Moves is designed to record your everyday life and activity. It keeps a daily track of walking, cycling and running. Keeps a daily record of the amount of steps, miles and the time... 

Quit.ie

Quitting cigarettes is not always easy without support and encouragement. For many it is necessary that they quit for health reasons. The HSE QUIT Team is a personal support service that has been set up to help quitters. The Team is there to provide support and have active advisors ready to assist anyone... 

Multi-Vitamins May Increase Health Risks

Scientists at the University of Colorado in the U.S have discovered that taking vitamins above the recommended daily allowance (RDA) may increase the risk of developing cancer.  The Food Safety Authority in Ireland (FSAI) wants to put regulations in place across the EU in order to prevent the spread... 

What is Bulimia Nervosa?

  What is Bulimia Nervosa? Bulimia Nervosa is a serious eating disorder characterised by binge eating and self induced vomiting. A person suffering from this condition may be normal weight and appear to be happy and sociable, this makes the condition difficult to detect. Anyone can suffer from... 

Sanctuary Under Siege – St James’ Hospital

Sanctuary Under Siege – St James’ Hospital – Alan Finn  tells us his experience in St James’ Hospital & how he feels staff are coping with cuts, as well as the affect on patients  Recently, an unexpected illness saw me spirited away to St James’ Hospital, Dublin 8.  My... 

Top Tips For Your Mental Wellbeing This Christmas

This Christmas we have teamed up with some of the wonderful mental health advocacy organisations to present their Top Tips for your mental health this Christmas. If you need Mental Health advice, St. Patrick’s Support & Information Service is a telephone and email service staffed by experienced... 

Love/Hate Stars & Superquinn Support St. Patrick’s Hospital

Kilmainham Superquinn held a Christmas Evening at their Heuston South Quarter store last Friday, the 13th of December, and Alan Finn and I popped along to see what all the commotion was about! Ultimate Chocolate Biscuit Cake!Two Love/Hate stars – Stephen O’Brien and Aaron Heffernan –... 

Mary Hayes Interview – Beech/Maple House Homeless Hostels

Hello my name is Alan Finn from the Fountain News and I’m joined with Mary Hayes, from Beech House, a mixed hostel for homeless people, and Maple house a male homeless hostel for over 18’s, over on the north of the city. Note from editor: This was originally published as part of our March 2011... 

St. James’s Hospital Is Leading The Way In Cancer Research!

St. James’s Hospital, here in Dublin 8, has been making the news today after it released a major report, the first of it’s kind to be undertaken in Ireland. The 10 Year Cancer Audit basically compiles data from a period of a decade, relating to patients who have been treated for various... 

Hospital To Errect Signs To Inform Public Of Development

St. James’s Hospital have applied for planning permission to erect signs at the James’s Street entrance, and at the Rialto entrance near the rear of the hospital. These signs are to display information about the development of the planned National Children’s Hospital, and appear to... 

Dublin 100 Years Ago: Death, Disease And Overcrowding

A housing inquiry in 1914 found that 16 members of Dublin Corporation owned tenements and it was clear that Corporation members intervened to foil the enforcement of regulations against their properties While Dublin may have been regarded as the “second city” of the British Empire in the... 

Unforeseen Consequences Of Banning Smoking On Hospital Grounds

The Coombe Women & Infants University Hospital here in Cork Street, Dublin 8, has brought in a change recently that put a stop to staff, patients, and visitors alike, when it come’s to smoking on hospital grounds. Smoking is a serious addiction and people who smoke do so because they are... 

The New Children’s Hospital May Impact Jobs + Nutrition

I agree totally that the children’s hospital coming to the James’s campus is great for the area and will lead to regeneration, investment and employment. My issue lies with hospital management who have been looking to bring in ready cooked meals from the UK as a cost cutting exercise, since... 

Work Begins Clearing St James’ Site For New Hospital

According to yesterday’s Irish Times, work has begun on clearing some parts of the St. James’s Hospital campus which are to be used for the new National Children’s Hospital… “Eilish Hardiman started work as chief executive of the Children’s Hospital Group on Friday and... 

An Taisce Questions D8 Site For National Children’s Hospital

TO: Taoiseach Enda Kenny, Government Buildings, Merrion Street, Dublin 2. 30 October 2013 Re: New National Children’s Hospital C.c. the Tanáiste, Minister for Health & Children, Cabinet colleagues of the aforementioned, Chair of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board, Chair of the... 

The National Children’s and Maternity Hospital @ St James’s

As it stands the National Children’s and Maternity Hospital is to be built on the St. James’s Hospital site, which would lead to some regeneration of the area, and added local employment too of course. If you havn’t already viewed the plans put forward by St. James’s Hospital, and... 
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