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“This is the real deal”: How Irish health tech company SilverCloud

WEBKen Cahill was in bullish form when he dialled in from Boston in March for The Currency’s weekly podcast. Even before Covid-19, his company SilverCloud Health …

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Limbo's Rurik Bradbury on reducing obesity, mind-blowing …

WEBRurik Bradbury arrives at the podcast studio wearing his business. A blinking band on one arm and a sticky patch on the back of the other. The chief executive of …

Category: Health Go Health

Having raised $1.5m, Frankie Health wants to tackle mental health

WEBStories Having raised $1.5m, Frankie Health wants to tackle mental health issues in the workplace Five months after James McGann and Seb Poole founded …

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Sinead O’Sullivan: Why I left academia (and how it changed my life)

WEBJust over a year ago, I left Harvard and moved out of Harvard Square, which had been one of the most life-changing locales that I’ve ever lived in. And since leaving …

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Sick, will travel: Bypassing Ireland’s public health queues

WEBStories Sick, will travel: Bypassing Ireland’s public health queues With almost 900,000 public health patients waiting for hospital treatment, travelling abroad for …

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Putting the patient in control: How Beyondbmi is waging war …

WEBDr Harriet Treacy needed advice. So, just before Christmas 2021, She sat down with her mentor John Purdy, a successful entrepreneur and investor who co …

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Mark Goodman now owns two health food businesses. Can he …

WEBThe acquisition of Independent Irish Health Foods (IIHF) by Mark Goodman’s Bellingham Capital investment vehicle dovetails with his previous deal this time last year …

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Tommie Gorman: Hope, mortality, and the battle against a …

WEBIn the ebb and flow of a life, once in a while something happens that catches you by surprise. It lifts the spirits to a different, better place. During 2023 one such …

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A pandemic silver lining

WEBEugene Canavan’s father is 83 years old. He has multiple underlying health conditions, and prefers, when possible, to receive healthcare from the comfort and …

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Health, housing, and the budget narrative: Rewinding the week …

WEBVoices Health, housing, and the budget narrative: Rewinding the week that was It was notable that the two themes that have dominated political discourse in recent …

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“Simple, short breathing exercises can bring people from fight or

WEBStories “Simple, short breathing exercises can bring people from fight or flight to rest and digest in minutes” Experiencing cold and learning how to breathe is good for …

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Ireland's €1.2bn private hospital industry: The margins, the market

WEBPrivate medicine is – discreetly – an enormous industry in Ireland. Private hospitals in Ireland are owned by American hospital groups, global private equity funds, …

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“A history of persistent loss”: HealthBeacon wins court protection

WEBAn interim examiner has been appointed to Irish medtech firm HealthBeacon, which has liabilities of €6.37 million and literally “no more gas in the tank”, according to …

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Northern Ireland's biggest private hospital group gearing up for …

WEBNorthern Ireland’s biggest private hospital group, which also owns a hospital in Sligo, is being put up for sale in a transaction that could be valued at over £300 million …

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Chartering expansion on the medical trail

WEBChartering expansion on the medical trail. It had once planned to become a nationwide player in Irish healthcare. But after retrenching during the economic bust, …

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Medical inflation, Covid and Goodman family trusts: Under the …

WEBThe Galway Clinic. Accounts have also been filed for the Galway Clinic, also controlled by Goodman. Revenues dipped slightly from €99.3 million in 2019 to €96 …

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Having quickly become Ireland’s largest nursing home provider, a

WEBFrench care giant Orpea has appointed a new board and executive team in Ireland as it gears up to expand in the nursing home sector in Ireland as well as enter …

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The Blackrock Clinic's 2019 accounts: not Ireland's biggest private

WEBThe Blackrock Clinic, which Larry Goodman took full control over last year, is in rude financial health. In accounts recently filed for 2019 the hospital earned €8.9 …

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