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Rare Disease Day shines a light on conditions that are often overlooked or misunderstood. While non-healing wounds aren’t rare in the strict medical sense, they can be underestimated.

When Dr Paul Grant, an experienced family doctor in Buncrana, Co Donegal, casually asked one of his fellow GPs in the practice to "take his bloods," he automatically presumed he would get a clean bill of health.

Listed by Forbes magazine as the exercise of the 21st century with the greatest all-round benefits for the human body, Tai Chi, often referred to as “meditation in motion,” is a mind-body practice combining slow, spiral rotational movements with deep breathing and mindfulness. Originating as a martial art in China 400 years ago, Tai Chi has evolved into one of the world's most popular exercises for promoting physical and mental wellbeing.

Living with a diabetic foot ulcer that is not healing can be exhausting, painful, and stressful.

A free Living Well programme will begin in Oughterard on Thursday, September 10, running weekly from 10.30am to 1pm for six weeks. This evidence-based programme is designed to support adults living with long-term health conditions — such as diabetes, arthritis, heart disease, COPD, or chronic pain — to take control of their health and improve their quality of life.

Researchers have found new evidence that a single stem cell therapy treatment called ORBCEL-M could better preserve kidney function.

What is the leading cause of women’s deaths worldwide? Many would mistakenly say breast cancer.

This June, during World Haemochromatosis Awareness Week (1st–7th June 2026), the Irish Haemochromatosis Association (IHA) is calling on the public to recognise the symptoms of haemochromatosis, also known as iron overload, and seek testing earlier. Haemochromatosis is Ireland’s most common genetic condition.

Ireland has one of the highest rates of type 2 diabetes in Europe, with more than 225,000 people currently diagnosed. Among the most serious complications are diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs). DFUs are wounds that are slow to heal, and around 15 per cent of people with diabetes will develop a DFU during their lifetime. DFUs can significantly impact quality of life, and, in some cases, result in admission to hospital or amputation.

Sixteen patients attending the Diabetes Outpatient Clinic at University Hospital Galway were honoured at a special awards ceremony recently held in Croí.