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The HSE is inviting people aged 60 years and over and pregnant women to make an appointment for their Covid-19 vaccine booster dose at www.hse.ie.

The VAT on defibrillators is a “tax on saving lives” and must be scrapped, the Irish Heart Foundation insisted in its pre-Budget submission this week.

Irish pharmacies have now administered more than one million Covid-19 vaccines, the Irish Pharmacy Union (IPU) has confirmed.

A HSE pop-up vaccination centre will operate at Mullingar Primary Care Centre from 12pm-6.30pm on Saturday, August 20.

As a result of routine operations on Monday, August 15, and Tuesday, August 16, Revenue officers examining parcels at a premises in Athlone seized 11.6kgs of herbal cannabis, with an estimated value of €232,000.

Incontinence and ED can be extremely debilitating for men, until now. BTL Emsella is a breakthrough treatment for incontinence and confidence. This technology revolutionises intimate health and wellness by providing those suffering from incontinence (treating both faecal and urinary incontinence) with a completely non-invasive option. This treatment is for both men and women.

New safefood funded research that looked at the cost of living with a food allergy or coeliac disease in Ireland has estimated that the average cost burden for a child with a food allergy is €1,439 every year, rising to €1,602 for an adult.

Burn injuries are among the most painful and difficult to heal injuries, and unfortunately incredibly common in both adults and children.

BreastCheck, the HSE National Breast Screening Programme, which offers population-based breast screening to eligible women on an area-by-area basis every two years, lost a year of screening time due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Surgery is a common treatment option for women with breast cancer. The surgery is to remove the cancerous tissue and the area close to it. There are many different ways of operating on breast cancer and the type of surgery will depend on the stage of the patient’s cancer. Surgery can range from breast-conserving surgery (removing part of the breast) to a full mastectomy (removing the whole breast). Many women also opt for breast reconstruction surgery which helps to restore the appearance of their breasts. Frequently for these surgeries, the patient is left with skin flaps and skin grafts to help close the wound. For skin grafts or flaps to survive and the wound to heal well a new blood supply needs to form from the underlying tissue to the grafted skin. One of the risks of these surgeries is that the skin flaps or grafts do not heal well due to ischaemia (insufficient supply of blood) or necrosis (the tissue dying).