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Living with diabetes means keeping a close eye on your feet. A small cut or blister can quickly turn into a wound that is difficult to treat and can have serious health consequences.

Ballybane Community Hub has announced a series of upcoming events for the local community, including a Halloween-themed cookery demonstration, free health screening and an evening of classic board games.

While every person is unique, one thing most of us have in common is that we rely on our feet every day to get us from A to B. Looking after them is therefore essential to our mobility, comfort and overall wellbeing.

One in four people in Ireland will experience a stroke during their lifetime. That's a worrying statistic. However, there is a lot we can do to avoid having this life-threatening medical emergency.

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.