Health

Why the amount of alcohol you drink impacts your cancer risk

This week is Awareness Week on Alcohol Related Harm (AWARH), which aims to get EU and national policy makers to pledge to address alcohol related harm in Europe. The theme for this year’s AWARH is Alcohol and Cancer. Orla Dolan from Breakthrough Cancer Research discusses the links between alcohol and cancer. 

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Advice on Food Allergies and Intolerance

This post by Carla Bredin focuses on food intolerance and the distinction between allergy and intolerance.

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Improving health outcomes for mothers and their babies in relation to pre-eclampsia.

Research is hugely important to our understanding of healthcare and here, Kate McSweeney from UCC explains some current research being undertaken at the INFANT research centre.  

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Looking at the WAY you eat to help good digestion.

Nutritionist Carla Bredin from Wildhealthy talks about the imporatnce of looking at the WAY you eat, as well as WHAT you eat.

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On International Women’s day we discuss Cervical Cancer Awareness

Here, our Occupational Health Advisor Orla O' Callaghan talks about Cervical Cancer Awareness. 

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The importance of research in healthcare,our partnership with the College of Medicine and Health, UCC.

One of our core beliefs is that of preventative healthcare. In this article Kate McSweeney, UCC ,explains more about the ASSERT programme. 

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