Health technology
Can your Apple Watch really measure blood pressure?
What Apple's hypertension notifications detect, why they do not provide a blood-pressure reading, and where the feature's limits matter.
Healthcare Edition / Coverage
Patient guides · Page 5
Clear starting points for patients and travelers, with sources and scope made explicit.
Health technology
Your sleep score changed: what wearable ratings actually measure
Apple and Google turn sleep data into different ratings. Here is what feeds those numbers, why an update can change them, and what a score cannot establish.
Health technology
Hearing aids in earbuds and glasses: how the technology differs
AirPods and hearing glasses combine familiar hardware with amplification. Their fitting methods, software modes and evidence are different.
Travel & assistance
European Health Insurance Card: what it covers and what it leaves out
How EHIC works during a temporary stay, why local charges can still apply, and where to apply or renew, including the Irish service.
Travel & assistance
Cross Border Directive: how Ireland’s planned-care scheme works
Who Ireland’s Cross Border Directive scheme is for, how reimbursement is capped, and how it differs from EHIC and the Treatment Abroad Scheme.