Their precise purpose may be a mystery, but there can be trouble if the guttural pouches at the base of the horse’s skull are affected by disease. Safia Barakzai MRCVS explains what makes them ...

What is a Colostomy Bag? A colostomy bag is a pouch made of heavy-duty plastic that’s worn on your body and collects your poop. You will need to use one of these bags if you had a colostomy ...

Sales of baby food pouches—soft bags with plastic spouts that make eating easy—have skyrocketed by 900% since 2010, now surpassing jarred purees as the top choice for baby food. Typically ...

With a range of flavors and eye-catching ads, nicotine pouches may be on your radar—even if you completely eschew cigarettes ...

With a range of flavors and eye-catching ads, nicotine pouches may be on your radar—even if you completely eschew cigarettes and e-cigarettes. And the market is flooded with plenty of nicotine ...

With social media usage among children increasing, so too are the numbers of distractions caused by cell phones – especially ...

The Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has branded the Budget allocation of €9 million for mobile phone pouches in secondary schools as "a terrible waste of public money." Speaking in Co ...

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What are these smartphone ‘pouches’ being introduced in schools? And how do they work?Opens in new window ] And yet, the announcement in Budget 2025 that €9 million is to be provided to fund ...

It was announced in Budget 2025 that €9 million is to be provided to fund efforts to keep students off their phones during the school day, including the provision of secure pouches to store the ...