Hack Your Health: Secrets of your Gut, a new Netflix documentary will premiere globally on Friday 26th April, and will feature a University College Cork (UCC) scientist who is a global expert on gut health.

• New report finds that government response to climate crisis is worsening inequalities for women and marginalised people.
• Energy poverty, housing poverty, food poverty, mobility and spatial injustices risk being exacerbated by the climate crisis and policy responses.
• The report was led by UCC researchers for Feminist Communities for Climate Justice, a joint project between the National Women’s Council of Ireland and Community Work Ireland.

• Significant delays between patient referral and their first clinic visit.
• Insufficient communication and information-sharing was evident.
• PD nurse specialists post are lacking nationwide.

A new photographic portrait of 50 women leaders in Ireland, featuring University College Cork palaeontologist Professor Maria McNamara, has been unveiled at Trinity College Dublin.

Europe is facing a nutrient deficiency that will impact children’s development and curtail healthy aging among older adults, experts have warned.

The Tánaiste, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Defence, Micheál Martin TD, today launched a new €11.6 million research programme focused on Cerebral Palsy at University College Cork (UCC).

• UCC study assessed the potential of care co-operatives in Ireland.
• The care co-operative model provides an alternative option to supporting older people to age well at home.
• In Ireland, most older people prefer to remain in their own homes, or, at least, in their own communities rather than in institutional settings, as they age.
• Study recommends the development of state-supported pilot actions to trial the development of care co-operatives.

Middle Age – between 40-60 years – marks a shift in brain ageing and the middle-aged brain could provide a window in your future brain health, a major academic analysis finds today.