The cost of HRT medicines is now covered by the State at participating pharmacies including Laois Pharmacy. What is covered, the 3 steps to get it, and what to ask your GP. A pharmacist’s guide from Portlaoise.
The morning after pill is free from Irish pharmacies for anyone aged 17–35 and for medical card holders — no prescription needed. How long you have, what the private consultation involves, and what to expect at Laois Pharmacy.
No Irish household should pay more than €80 a month for prescribed medicines. How the Drug Payment Scheme works, who counts as your household, how to apply in 5 minutes — plus a calculator showing what you would save.
What a medical card actually covers at an Irish pharmacy — the €1.50 prescription charge, the €15 family cap, what is not covered, and the schemes that help everyone else. By the pharmacists at Laois Pharmacy, Portlaoise.
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Menopause has finally become something Irish women talk about openly — and about time. Around 600,000 women in Ireland are peri- or post-menopausal right now, and while every experience is…
Most people who quit smoking for good didn’t manage it on willpower alone — and they didn’t manage it first try either. The evidence is clear: using nicotine replacement therapy…
Grass pollen season is in full swing across the midlands, and if your eyes are streaming on dry breezy days, you’re one of the roughly one in four Irish adults…
"It's only Irish sun" has burned more of us than any beach holiday. UV levels in the Irish midlands regularly hit 6+ in June and July — high enough to…
