health issues

“Two hips replaced, two young children, two years waiting”

“Two hips replaced, two young children, two years waiting”

Mum-of-two Elaine Davis, from Cork, featured on the RTÉ Investigates programme on Monday night, sharing her experience of being on a hospital waiting list for a double-hip replacement. Arthritis affects one in five people in Ireland – approximately 915,000 people nationwide.  There are over one hundred different types of arthritis, affecting people of all ages from babies and […]

10 years ago

Rotunda chief warns health service is failing women

Rotunda chief warns health service is failing women

The new Master of the Rotunda maternity hospital says patients are being forced to wait for up to nine months for gynaecology appointments that can detect cancer. Professor Fergal Malone, who is beginning a seven-year term at the 250-year-old maternity hospital, talked to the Irish Daily Mail today about how one of his main priorities going […]

11 years ago

The hair-tie mistake we are ALL making, and why it could kill us

The hair-tie mistake we are ALL making, and why it could kill us

Hands in the air; who keeps a spare hair tie on their wrist for when you just need to pull your hair back into a ponytail (which, to us mums, is pretty much 25 000 times a day)? I know, we’re totally guilty of this too. The problem? It can actually end up killing us. […]

11 years ago

New vagina on your lunch break? Say hello to the FemiLift!

New vagina on your lunch break? Say hello to the FemiLift!

The majority of us spend a good whack of money on keeping our bodies and looks as young and healthy as possible. Between hot yoga and kale juice and ballet bar and expensive facials, we aim to stay as taut and firm and fine looking for as long as humanly possible. But what about our […]

11 years ago