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A healthy development for Ireland
Practice nurses are filling a relatively new role in our GP surgeries and there are now some 1,700 of them employed in Ireland.
16 October 2013 Health
Brendan McArdle - The gift that keeps giving
What better present can you give than the gift of life? Brendan McArdle, gave his brother Colin a kidney find out what this extraordinary gift meant to them both
9 October 2013 Health
Kidney transplants - Giving the gift of life
Margaret Hawkins speaks to two Sligo people who received kidney transplants that have given them their lives back
Andy McGovern is writing his own story
Margaret Hawkins talks about motor neuron disease to Prof Orla Hardiman and Andy McGovern – who keeps defying the odds
9 October 2013 Health
Coping with a neurological condition
Overwhelming fatigue and ‘brain fog’ are symptoms of ME or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. An estimated 18,000 Irish people have it.
9 October 2013 Health
Where to from here? - nursing home fees
Sligo pensioner Martina Noonan (77) recently lost her battle with the HSE over nursing home fees.
9 October 2013 Health
Gestational Diabetes - diabetes during pregnancy
Diabetes during pregnancy now affects 12% of mothers-to-be in Ireland. Margaret Hawkins hears more about the condition
9 October 2013 Health
Transgender - How would you cope?
Imagine having a daughter who wants to be a man or a son who wants to be a woman.
9 October 2013 Health
Are you able to switch them off?
Are you losing control over how much time you spend on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter? Addiction to social media is now a very real problem.
9 October 2013 Health
Theresa Tierney Bugler - Living with psoriasis
An inflammatory skin condition that affects 100,000 people in Ireland, Hawkins talks to a nurse who has psoriasis about ?are-ups and coming to accept the condition
9 October 2013 Health
Glass half full or half empty?
A recent conference highlighted some of the dietary bene?ts of this natural foodstuff and put the spotlight on some of the recent bad press it has garnered.
9 October 2013 Health
Do you have an overactive bladder?
Bladder problems don’t just affect older women. Margaret Hawkins spoke to Collette Blake at Wexford General Hospital for tips on managing the problem
9 October 2013 Health