My Health Experience: ‘Get checked up: health can change in the blink of an eye’

Regular check-ups can be crucial to staying positive even in the face of daunting challenges to one’s health

WHO director general warns of rise in chronic diseases

Margaret Chan tells inaugural meeting of Healthy Ireland Council that ‘you cannot afford not to take action’

Sweet talk can’t sugar-coat the deadly link to heart disease

People who consume 17-21 per cent of their calories as added sugar have a 38 per cent greater risk of death from cardiovascular disease

Square meals and bottled benefits: don’t abandon chocolate and red wine just yet

Practising medicine in modern times, doctors must be wary of becoming part of the “health police”

Cholesterol: H for healthy, L for lousy

Your level of cholesterol has to be viewed as part of your overall cardiovascular health risk

EU project on foods that can boost heart health gets €6m funding

Married people have less heart disease, study finds

Having a spouse may promote a more robust lifestyle, researchers say

My Health Experience: It’s business as usual at home despite our heart conditions

My son was diagnosed with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy which is a thickening of the heart wall