Muiris Houston

Read more by Dr Muiris Houston @muirishouston Whatever happened to the new international treaty for preparing, preventing, and responding to pandemics?

Dr Muiris Houston: Our internal temperature is controlled by a small area of the brain called the hypothalamus which functions as the body’s thermostat

When caught early many cancers, including certain types of breast, prostate, testicular and thyroid cancers, have survival rates of up to 98%

We've just had another summer Covid surge. Some 4½ years since the highly virulent virus Sars-CoV-2 put the world in a pandemic spin, I thought it

Dr Muiris Houston: What does it mean if your tongue looks like a world map, or your gait is asymmetrical or stop-start?

Whether it was dispensary doctors doing house calls on horseback in the middle of a typhoid epidemic or Irish medics on the frontline during wartime, I have great admiration for their fortitude.

During the last flu season, more than 4,500 people aged 65 and older were diagnosed with the virus, resulting in 159 deaths

Dr Muiris Houston: The evidence suggests that moving to daylight savings time in the spring is detrimental