Measures that also affect younger age groups have been called ‘draconian’

When fecal microbiota transplants (FMTs) are performed, donor bacteriophages travel along for the ride. Far from being passive passengers, these phages may actively reshape the recipient’s gut by tran...

For the Icelandic musician A Dawning is not a project about death so much as an outpouring of joy and an acknowledgment of the preciousness of life

The principal of the City of Dublin Further Education College in Ballyfermot, where three-time Oscar winner Richard Baneham studied, has praised his "outstanding success".

When a physician is notified that the blood she donated to a biobank revealed a nonfounder BRCA2 variant, the future she has long imagined for herself telescopes inward — yet she knows she is lucky.

In this personal reflection, RTÉ producer Rory Cobbe remembers his friend and colleague, the late broadcaster Uaneen Fitzsimons, 25 years after her death.

In a world first, a bespoke gene-editing therapy benefited one child. Now researchers plan to launch a clinical trial of the approach.

Nature - Repetitive head impacts from contact sports are associated with brain inflammation, vascular damage and neuron loss that are independent of hyperphosphorylated tau pathology.

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Heightened fear of deportation is keeping migrants with high-risk pregnancies — people who’ve escaped perilous situations — from seeking the care they need. What can their physicians do?

The response to The Settlers has been humbling. But the ongoing displacement and intimidation of Palestinians is more severe than we could capture, says documentary presenter Louis Theroux

I hope to meet my father again one day. Until that day, I know one thing for sure: I never, ever walk alone.

The composition and function of the human gut microbiome has been linked to multiple health outcomes across all world regions, often with region-specific associations. Unfortunately, the extent to whi...

Research will seek former high-performance players in rugby, soccer or Gaelic games aged between 40 and 59

On February 18, 2025, RFK Jr. outlined his agenda for the nation’s largest public health agency. Unfortunately, it had little to do with public health.

The writer, surgeon, and former U.S.A.I.D. senior official Atul Gawande on the Trump Administration’s decimation of foreign aid and the consequences around the world.

Nobody opens a Stephen King novel expecting to see a reflection of the real world. Then again, as those who get hooked on his books can attest, never is his work ever wholly detached from reality.

The cancellation plays into fears among scientists who worry that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will use his position as health secretary to sow doubts about vaccines.

Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.

An investigation by a panel of 14 international experts into the cause of injury and death of the babies Lucy Letby is convicted of murdering or attempting to murder has claimed that there is “no medi...