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A view from General Practice by Dr Brendan O'Shea

EXCLUSIVE - Doctors tell of how they are increasingly seeing parents with overweight kids who come into surgeries, shrug their shoulders and say they simply dont know how to prepare quick, simple and fresh dinners.

The HSE is spending its money well and is “making progress,” the Public Expenditure Minister has insisted on Newstalk Breakfast.

Doctors are feeling unable to tackle growing problem of childhood obesity due to a lack of training and capacity according to new research.

Naas General Hospital is asking the public to consider all care options this Easter Bank Holiday weekend and would like to remind the public of other services…

By Joe Barrett The Sinn Féin TD in Laois Brian Stanley has called on the Minister for Health to intervene and relieve pressure on local GP and community health…

Editor Barbara Fountain finds herself getting picky over notions of how general practice is portrayed

He told the Dáil: “Being able to access a GP is like having money in the bank. The security it offers a family is hard to overestimate."

More than a quarter of people who live with migraine disease say the condition has caused them to miss school or work for more than five days over a three-month period, a survey from the University of Otago, Wellington, and the Migraine Foundation Aotearoa New Zealand has found.

The HIPPOCRATES consortium aims to help predict those who will develop the condition, diagnose it earlier, and one day even prevent it.