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Graphic Medicine Ireland, the first dedicated Irish chapter of the international graphic medicine movement, held its official launch event on May 21, 2026, at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) Library in Dublin. The evening brought together an unlikely but fitting crowd — medical professionals, comics artists, historians, health librarians, disability advocates, researchers, and plain old comics fans — all under one roof to celebrate a field that lives at the in

This one’s personal. Repeat after me: Don’t use AI for nutrition, fitness, and wellbeing advice. Eating-disorder therapists are raising alarm over a pattern showing up in their sessions: patients uploading photos of themselves to AI chatbots and asking for weight-loss or muscle-building tips, and then returning to therapy with extreme, bot-generated meal plans (that fall way under the body’s nutritional needs) or excessive fitness routines (that overtax an already undernouri

Dr. David Suskind’s Livewell Comics line is proving that the comics medium can do something clinical language often can’t: make scary medical information stick.

According to new research from The University of Manchester and Princeton University, Netflix’s Heartstopper adaptation turned the graphic novels into a global publishing phenomenon.