Ireland can’t decide whether to love or fear the e-scooter
In just a few short years it has taken its place among the many crosses to be borne…
Raise a glass to 30 years of divorce in Ireland
 It’s annoying me that I didn’t organise a party or at least raise a glass. Last week…
Not serious enough to turn on the siren, toddler’s 39-mile ambulance ride still cost over $9,000
Elisabeth Yoder’s son, Darragh, was 15 months old in August when he developed what at first looked to…
Ireland could lead the way in ultra-processed foods control
Food labels do not tell the whole story. The Lancet report titled ‘Ultra-processed foods: time to put health…
Health minister shares son’s neonatal brain injury as medical negligence overhaul questioned
Health minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has spoken in personal terms about her child who suffered a neonatal injury…
Can AI treat mental health? Millions of young Americans are turning to chatbots for help
Millions of young people in the U.S. are using AI chatbots to address mental health issues Researchers found…
Statutory inquiry into scoliosis and spina bifida care at CHI
The Government is set to launch a statutory inquiry into scoliosis and spina bifida care at Children’s Health…
Telehealth prescribing of Ritalin, addiction medications OK’d again
The Trump administration appears poised to extend a temporary, Covid-era rule allowing health providers to prescribe certain controlled…
France opens criminal probe into TikTok over kids’ mental health effects – POLITICO
A criminal investigation was opened by the Paris police’s cybercrime unit at the end of October, Delaporte wrote…
Children of different backgrounds in Ireland show developmental gap from age of three, study finds
A gap in developmental and academic outcomes for children from different backgrounds in Ireland is visible “as early…
Seven seriously ill children brought from Gaza to Ireland for treatment
Seven seriously ill Palestinian children have been evacuated from Gaza to Ireland for treatment, the Government has confirmed.…
‘Big concern’ over funding for mental health patient services
Mental health patients could lose out in the move to new HSE regions unless these services and its…