Grindingly slow progress on inquiry into orthodontic damageWaiting lists and patchy services testify to dire state of public dentistry for childrenTue Apr 02 2019 - 00:56
Audit to review more than 7,500 children’s dental workAudit acts on allegations that children’s teeth were damaged by HSE orthodontic servicesTue Apr 02 2019 - 00:35
National Maternity Strategy: Funding for new elements haltedMoney effectively going to abortion since January, says steering group memberMon Apr 01 2019 - 01:00
HSE under growing pressure to susped cervical cancer screening programme as delays mountMinister urged to explain why lab issuing smear test results faster to private patientsSun Mar 31 2019 - 16:33
Pregnancy and epilepsy pose challenges despite best practicesDeaths of Marie and Darragh Downey sad reminder of care needed for some womenSat Mar 30 2019 - 00:42
Three nurses were caring for 31 patients at time of mother’s death in hospitalReviews to explore if understaffing a factor in CUMH deaths of Marie Downey and her babyFri Mar 29 2019 - 03:00
New motherhood may provide ‘triggers’ for epilepsyHSE guide suggests hospital staff should have post-natal care plan for women with epilepsyFri Mar 29 2019 - 02:00
Report urges greater staff support at sexual assault unitsSimon Harris launches review aimed at tackling rising levels of sexual violenceThu Mar 28 2019 - 19:10
One in three cancer patients losing weight gets no nutritional adviceSurvey shows major gaps between patients’ needs and service providedThu Mar 28 2019 - 13:28
Minister promises review into deaths of mother and son in Cork hospitalSimon Harris says the deaths of Marie Downey and son Darragh ‘devastating’Thu Mar 28 2019 - 12:33
Sex assault treatment units to get increases in staffing and fundingMinister for Health to announce additional €500,000 in funding for unitsThu Mar 28 2019 - 00:46
CervicalCheck: Delay in setting up IT system blamed for backlog of testsJust 200 of 2,572 samples checked in seven weeks amid concerns over 30-day limitWed Mar 27 2019 - 14:55
GP body refuses call for emergency meeting on abortion servicesSome doctors walked out of December EGM over refusal to allow votes on termination-related motionsWed Mar 27 2019 - 13:04
How Galway woman’s life changed when her brother gave her a kidneyOrgan Donor Awareness Week kicks off with life-affirming stories of transplantsTue Mar 26 2019 - 18:34
Altruistic organ donation should be introduced in Ireland, charity saysHalf a dozen people a year referred to North for altruistic organ donation, says IKATue Mar 26 2019 - 16:06
Inquiry after mother of newborn baby found dead in hospitalWoman discovered on the floor of her room in Cork hospital with her child underneath herTue Mar 26 2019 - 03:05
Cataract operation plan may cut waiting times dramaticallyDedicated care teams could assess eyes and send public patients directly for fast surgeryTue Mar 26 2019 - 01:12
Review of cervical cancer slides now expected to be six months lateDelay could affect women’s ability to take court cases where misreading of slides allegedSat Mar 23 2019 - 01:54
Open disclosure to be mandatory by end of year, Harris saysDr Gabriel Scally’s latest progress report notes ‘deeply flawed’ HSE policy still in placeFri Mar 22 2019 - 11:14
Being mistreated as a child may make a person more prone to depressionGerman study establishes link between mistreatment and brain alterationsFri Mar 22 2019 - 07:31
HPV campaigner Laura Brennan’s life-saving workUptake of HPV vaccine among teenage girls now at 70% due to advocate’s campaigningFri Mar 22 2019 - 03:14
Young people need to learn from older generation to put down phones and talkCentenarians attribute long life to friendships and interest in world around themThu Mar 21 2019 - 16:04
Galway Hospice ‘shocked and devastated’ by planning refusalBoard warns of long delays in finding a new site as it says it will not seek a judicial reviewThu Mar 21 2019 - 14:49
‘We are lost without her’: HPV vaccine campaigner Laura Brennan (26) dies‘She wanted to use the time that she had to right what she felt was a great wrong’Wed Mar 20 2019 - 17:48
Doctor says ‘racist’ incident reminded him of house call that led to complaintDr Salaheldin Ahmed denies failing to properly examine man during home visitWed Mar 20 2019 - 17:03
Coombe hospital advertises for post of master/chief executiveOutgoing head Sharon Sheehan was second woman to hold position of master in any hospitalWed Mar 20 2019 - 13:39
Portlaoise baby deaths controversy helped bring CervicalCheck to lightDisclosure rules revision meant cancer patients had to be told of misinterpreted testsWed Mar 20 2019 - 01:54
National children’s hospital: Pollock resignation a big blowJohn Pollock appeared genuinely embarrassed by the massive cost overrunWed Mar 20 2019 - 01:49
HSE refuses to disclose if staff had case to answer for Portlaoise baby deathsCampaigner: ‘How quickly can you forget the deaths of healthy babies?’Wed Mar 20 2019 - 01:44
Children's hospital: Engineer in charge of project resignsJohn Pollock’s is the fifth resignation from the long-delayed and controversial projectWed Mar 20 2019 - 01:22
Limerick hospital ‘closing beds’ as trolley numbers near record levelsUHL had 76 patients waiting for admission this morning as new facilities are delayedTue Mar 19 2019 - 18:00
Free CPR training to be offered to 100,000 people in new programmePeople will learn how to recognise cardiac arrest and strokes, and use defibrillatorTue Mar 19 2019 - 17:12
Half of Ireland’s hospital doctors exhausted and overwhelmed by workJust one in five say work situation leaves them enough time for family or personal lifeWed Mar 13 2019 - 01:00
Widespread dissatisfaction with mental health servicesSurvey shows unhappiness with services, focus on medication and complaints processWed Mar 13 2019 - 00:50
CervicalCheck: €5m payment scheme approvedWomen affected by non-disclosure of audit expected to get about €25,000 eachMon Mar 11 2019 - 18:22
People waiting over six months for 10 procedures to be seen this yearThe measure is part of a new plan to tackle waiting lists in the health sectorMon Mar 11 2019 - 15:30
HPV vaccine uptake among girls in Ireland rises to 70%HSE’s immunisation chief says ‘eliminating cervical cancer is now an achievable goal’Mon Mar 11 2019 - 14:41
Welcome to Dublin Airport, where snowfall causes chaosAmid long delays, passengers are kept in the dark and given a €5 voucher, with no food to spend it onMon Mar 04 2019 - 07:17
State hospitals must provide abortion if Catholic clinics will not – reportPatient’s life must take precedence over ethos in emergencies, says reportFri Mar 01 2019 - 01:00
Life expectancy levelling off – especially for Irish womenExtreme flu, obesity and diabetes among reasons advances into old age stallFri Mar 01 2019 - 01:00
Hundreds protest at Dáil for access to drug for muscle-wasting diseaseCoveney asks TDs not to treat HSE as a ‘cold body’ that does not want to approve Spinraza accessThu Feb 28 2019 - 13:59
No plans to force hospitals to remove crucifixes, says TaoiseachVaradkar: publicly-funded hospitals need to recognise not everyone is CatholicThu Feb 28 2019 - 12:53
New treatment cures up to 350 oesophageal cancers in Irish hospitalsMore than 5,000 patients registered on Ireland’s first registry for Barrett’s OesophagusThu Feb 28 2019 - 01:00
One in 10 children in Ireland gambling illegally, survey findsTwo-thirds of us gamble, while four in 10 people are regular gamblers, study showsWed Feb 27 2019 - 19:04
Breath-test pregnant women to see if they smoke, study suggestsWomen who hide habit miss out on vital monitoring and have more issues, study showsWed Feb 27 2019 - 00:15
Doctor faces disciplinary inquiry over house-call treatmentCavan-based GP denies alleged failings while attending elderly patient in April 2017Tue Feb 26 2019 - 12:44
Superbug: Cork hospital staff warned about dress codeControl practices criticised by health watchdog after CPE outbreak hits 17 patientsTue Feb 26 2019 - 10:06
Impact of Brexit to have negative effect on Britain’s NHSLancet flags impact on staff, financing, availability of medicines and vaccinesTue Feb 26 2019 - 01:00
Naas hospital doctors the subject of Medical Council disciplinary hearingAll three were involved in care of man (52) who died days after being admitted with chest painsTue Feb 26 2019 - 00:30
Children who are heavy users of screens much more likely to be shortsightedResearch shows obese children, and those with sedentary lifestyles, three time more prone to myopiaMon Feb 25 2019 - 01:00
