Arthritis affects around 400,000 people in Ireland and nearly 70 million people in the European Union suffer from the condition. A group of Irish scientists based at NUI Galway are…

The Irish Heart Foundation has revealed that the rate of heart attacks in Ireland has dropped by 10% since the introduction of the smoking ban ten years ago.  The smoking…

Statin are drugs that are prescribed to patients with high LDL cholesterol levels. LDL cholesterol is known as ‘bad’ cholesterol and it can increase a person’s risk of developing heart…

The World Health Organisation has said that a persons daily allowance for sugar intake should be halved to six teaspoons.  A recent set of guidelines that were published by the…

Scientists have developed a new type of blood test that they say could possibly be able to indicate if a person will develop dementia within 3 years.  The new study…

Scientists have managed to prove that there is in fact a direct link between the changing of the world’s climate and the increase of malaria. The study which was carried…

Researchers from the University of Southern California have suggested that a high protein diet could be as damaging to our health as smoking a packet of 20 cigarettes per day….

A recent new survey that has been carried out by the Irish Cancer Society has revealed that less than one in five Irish people currently smoke which marks a significant…

Researchers in the United States have suggested that cooking meat on the grill, in the oven or frying pan produces extremely harmful chemicals that could potentially increase the risk of…

Heart disease impacts the lives of thousands of people in Ireland. There may now be a new way of providing a constant monitoring system for the human heart according to…

A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a test that could potentially make it simpler and more affordable for the general public to detect some…

Researchers in the United States have made a major technological breakthrough in regard to treating heart diseases. Scientists have developed microchip technology that will be able to provide surgeons with…

A new concept for treating cancer is being considered after a research team from the Georgia Institute of Technology designed nanofibres thinner than a human hair which cancers “choose” to…