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Refusal of strategy to be published this week to address pricing issues for common off-patent therapies likely only to worsen supply issues

Covid disruption led number of deaths from disease across continent to stop falling for first time in decades

Noise intrusion is likely to increase in line with population density, and yet Ireland lacks a formal national policy on noise

Coronavirus findings not definitive and all theories, including lab leak, remain on table, health body says

No far-right party has ever returned a councillor or TD in an election before

Newspaper claims Anders Tegnell’s controversial approach yielded better outcome than previously thought

Dr Muiris Houston: The latest evolution of bird flu raises serious concerns - it is time to increase testing and sequencing samples

Families in Niger depend on farming but if the harvest season is bad due to drought or flash floods occur the consequences are substantial

WHO expects death toll to ‘increase significantly’ as search and rescue efforts continue

Surge in demand this winter puts pressure on supplies amid sharp disagreement over long-term impact of pricing

Europe Letter: How did Irish plans to put cancer warnings on bottles of alcohol become the focus of an Italian controversy?

Plans to label wine as cancerous are the latest way of finger-wagging at an oafish public who don’t know how to look after themselves

Latest virus outbreak overwhelming some hospitals, crematoriums in rural areas with less medical resources

Dr Muiris Houston looks at the latest variant of Omicron and the challenges it poses

Cooking on gas without mechanical ventilation causes indoor nitrogen dioxide pollution that exceeds World Health Organisation air quality guidelines

On the economic front, Government decision to provide increased support for households and businesses proved exceptionally successful

Western health officials say checks have mostly been introduced to avert potential variants spreading

Patients are being left in corridors with oxygen and wheelchairs as Covid surges in China’s capital

Step motivated by lack of data from China regarding deaths and new variants

International health experts predict at least one million deaths in China from virus this year

Countries’ measures targeting arrivals from China are ‘simply unreasonable’, says foreign ministry

Health scientists warn recent cold snap saw air quality levels across the country worsen dramatically

Beyondbmi’s platform combines pharmaceutical solutions with clinical supervision and nutritional therapy

Agency is seeking figures on hospitalisations, deaths and vaccinations

People are dying from common, once-treatable infections because bacteria have become resistant to treatment

China’s current surge in cases started ‘long before’ restrictions were lifted, WHO says

Dublin-born doctor had a long career in public health in the developing world: ‘When there was a tough place to be and a difficult job to do, we’d send Muireann’

Peer-researched paper pushes leading consultant audiologist to seek Government-backed campaign to better inform young listeners

It is not recognised as a mental disorder by the WHO, but the concept of ‘PA’ is being used increasingly in custody disputes before the family law courts

Children are being removed from their preferred parents into the custody of allegedly abusive parents, advocates warn

WHO estimates cholera kills up to 143,000 people annually in the world’s poorest countries

It has become a teenage obsession and at the same time, the number of teens smoking cigarettes is rising for the first time in decades

Health minister orders suspension of license of suspected pharmacy and importer of the cough medicine

Pollutants arising from solid fuel burning and traffic are exceeding WHO guidelines in Ireland

A rise in cases of diarrhoea and malaria has been reported after months of heavy rains

Beijing cuts regular communication channels between armed forces and halts bilateral climate talks

WHO says spread in more than 70 countries is “extraordinary” situation

US identifies first cases of monkeypox in children amid 14,000 cases in more than 60 countries and five deaths in Africa

WHO Regional Director for Europe urges countries to take action now to avoid overwhelming health systems in autumn and winter

Both cases showed symptoms including diarrhea, fever, nausea and vomiting and sought treatment at same hospital