IN A rare interview with the press, lung cancer, a malignant set of tumours found in the lungs, which causes great distress to those it afflicts, has spoken exclusively to WWN about its ongoing prevalence. “When it comes to changing people’s lives forever, I don’t discriminate or favour any one group in particular really,” lung… Read more »
WITH a damning survey revealing that a startling 60% of Irish women consume alcohol while pregnant, it’s time to take a look at ways in which the average pregnant woman can still have a few drinks now and then without busybodies sticking their beaks in. Here’s 5 cocktails you should drink during the nine months… Read more »
A NEW report into the dietary habits of infants has revealed troubling statistics for parents, who may have to face up to the fact that their babies aren’t eating enough morsels of dirt and garbage off the floor. While parents tend to be changing their habits when it comes to sugary and fatty foods linked… Read more »
NOT satisfied with the government’s insistence that they have all the solutions to the HSE’s A&E problems, WWN’s investigative reporter Ann Trope went undercover posing as a trolley to get some real answers. Mere moments into putting myself in place as a trolley I could easily see that such is the overcrowding in the country’s… Read more »
WITH hospital overcrowding reaching its usual annual peak that nobody at the HSE could have predicted and public outrage at the state of our health system reaching breaking point, Minister for Health Simon Harris has opted to go sit in a dark room with his face in his hands, thinking of the glorious day when… Read more »
AT the launch of their 2017 strategy earlier today the HSE informed members of the public who intended on becoming ill or injured to do so immediately and begin queuing if they wanted a place on a trolley in a crowded A&E in time for Christmas day. “We’ve currently got 541 patients on trolleys, so… Read more »
A RECENT survey has awarded the Winter Vomiting Bug (WVB) the title of ‘most accurately named disease’ for the fifth year running, praising the illness for its no-nonsense approach to titling. So named because it is a bug you get in winter-time that makes you vomit, the WVB can affect any age group or gender,… Read more »
WITH no sign of the HSE coughing up for a revolutionary new drug called Orkambi that could greatly ease the pain suffered by Cystic Fibrosis patients, one Waterford child is hoping he makes enough from his First Communion money this Spring to cover the cost of the treatments. Dubbed ‘unjustifiably expensive’ by the HSE, Orkambi… Read more »
DOCTORS studying the make-up of young fellas have found that they are made of nothing these days, in contrast to the men of old. The scientific study, carried out by a team of genetic experts at Trinity College Dublin, found that the majority of Irish males aged between 16-30 have grown a lot weaker physically and… Read more »
ALTHOUGH over 3,000 men in Ireland are diagnosed every year with prostate cancer, one Waterford man is steadfastly refusing to undergo the testing procedure that could save his life because he’s “fucked if some doctor is fingering his arse”. At 42, David Gennon from Ardmore, Co. Waterford, is right in the demographic of men that… Read more »