Slow response to Halappanavar reportOnly one hospital got ‘excellent’ for instigating HSE and Hiqa recommendationsFri Sept 12 2014 - 01:06
Health crisis: cuts would lead to ‘draconian’ measuresDepartment warns emergency departments would close at nightFri Sept 12 2014 - 01:02
Health cuts of €833m outlined in submissionDepartment of Health does not believe bulk of savings proposed are achievableFri Sept 12 2014 - 01:00
Health department warns against more funding cutsReport says health needs €500 million moreFri Sept 12 2014 - 01:00
Tax on sugary drinks ‘not justified’, nutrition expert saysReducing suger is not a ‘magic bullet’ to combating obesity, Dublin conference toldThu Sept 11 2014 - 12:34
Staff in Savita Halappanavar case ‘disciplined’ after reviewInquiry decided 21 of 30 persons involved in late woman’s care had no case to answerThu Sept 11 2014 - 09:20
Irish scientist to lead Ebola trialsDublin-born Prof Adrian Hill said he was cautiously optimistic that a recently developed vaccine would prove effectiveThu Sept 11 2014 - 01:00
Jim Breslin appointed secretary general at HealthHead of Department of Children moved to replace Ambrose McLoughlinWed Sept 10 2014 - 17:56
Teen cannabis users less likely to finish school, get a degreeDaily users of cannabis in adolescence are seven times more likely to attempt suicideWed Sept 10 2014 - 08:15
Varadkar signals change to graduate nurse schemeMinister promises ‘creative’ approach to make graduate nursing more attractiveTue Sept 09 2014 - 13:52
Woman criticises HSE after legal battle over father’s deathPatrick O’Kelly died from injury after fall from bed in Mid-Western Regional HospitalTue Sept 09 2014 - 01:00
Hazel O’Kelly, who took action against the HSE, tells of her father’s final daysThe 61-year-old Patrick O’Kelly died in 2005 after being admitted to Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Limerick with suspected strokeTue Sept 09 2014 - 01:00
Women with faulty breast implants could win payoutLawyers say French courts likely to make awards of €15,000 in PIP scandalMon Sept 08 2014 - 14:13
Minister told by department officials he has no power to set drug pricesIrish consumers still paying multiples of price paid by British for commonly used medicinesSat Sept 06 2014 - 01:05
Living kidney donors to get expenses reimbursedDepartment of Social Protection agrees to compensationSat Sept 06 2014 - 01:02
When Dr Google and Dr Expert disagreeEmpowered by medical internet searches, Ashya King’s parents took dramatic action. Is it a good idea to diagnose yourself? And what does it mean for the future of medicine?Sat Sept 06 2014 - 01:00
Expansion of cancer facilities at St James’s Hospital deferredDecision means five-year reprieve for St Luke’s in RathgarSat Sept 06 2014 - 01:00
Study to examine aspirin’s role in preventing breast cancer spreadSome 3,000 will take part in Irish Cancer Society national researchWed Sept 03 2014 - 13:12
Eight-fold rise in MenC cases causes concernHSE to give school children booster vaccine after increase in potentially fatal diseaseTue Sept 02 2014 - 14:36
2,500 incidents of elder abuse reported to the HSE last yearMost alleged abuse is perpetrated by a family member, with children accounting for 45% of casesTue Sept 02 2014 - 01:03
€1.1m legal fees paid out to Mahon case buildersBiggest payment made by department since start of last year was €1.7m to engineering firm lawyersTue Sept 02 2014 - 01:00
Patient claims doctor carried out fertility procedure without consentGynaecologist faces allegation of poor professional performance at Medical CouncilMon Sept 01 2014 - 11:35
Call to prepare for more aged populationNumber of people over 85 years will have doubled by 2025, according to Social Justice IrelandMon Sept 01 2014 - 09:13
Just 25% of GP trainees plan to stay in Ireland after graduationUncertainty over role of family doctor in healthcare is a factor driving emigrationMon Sept 01 2014 - 01:02
Evidence of medical brain drain no longer merely anecdotalMedical Council says five years of data needed before trend is identifiedFri Aug 29 2014 - 01:00
Survey shows rise in number of young doctors emigratingMedical Council report finds sharp rise in ‘brain drain’ among newly qualified graduatesFri Aug 29 2014 - 00:38
Children’s hospitals say no decisions made about future use of sitesSale of hospitals at Crumlin, Temple Street or Tallaght could raise millions of euro to offset cost of new project, estimated at €650mTue Aug 26 2014 - 01:00
Guidelines on management of pregnant women with sepsis updatedPromised guidelines on circumstances in which pregnancies can be terminated yet to be publishedSat Aug 16 2014 - 01:02
Economic impact of child abuse profound, says ESRISex assault survivors are twice as likely to be out of labour force, according to new reportFri Aug 15 2014 - 01:00
€30 million funding boost for dementia careMinister Lynch promises to match €14.7m grants from Chuck Feeney’s endowmentThu Aug 14 2014 - 14:58
Concern over dearth of new medicines to fight infectionOnly one new antibiotic brought to Irish market in last six yearsThu Aug 14 2014 - 01:00
€40m lost on failed Mater plan for national children’s hospitalFinancial statements for National Paediatric Hospital Development Board confirm most of money spent on original site bid will be written offThu Aug 14 2014 - 01:00
Aspirin can prevent cancer deaths, Irish study findsResearchers find prescription can help stop spread of breast cancer to lymph nodesWed Aug 13 2014 - 11:57
Reilly awarded €500,000 in Lottery funds to Dublin NorthFormer minister for health approved 17 grants nationally against officials’ adviceWed Aug 13 2014 - 01:00
Westmeath and Longford fare worst in Lottery funds from HealthReilly’s constituency of north Dublin had 19 successful applicationsWed Aug 13 2014 - 01:00
Robin Williams found dead in his California home after apparent suicideStar of ‘Good Morning Vietnam’ and ‘Dead Poets Society’ was 63 years of ageTue Aug 12 2014 - 08:39
EU concern over smaller poultry plantsReport says food safety system does not guarantee all EU requirements are metTue Aug 12 2014 - 01:00
Diabetes staff shortage in CrumlinEleven patients waiting to put on pump programmeTue Aug 12 2014 - 01:00
Met Éireann warns of further heavy showers for today and tomorrowTorrential rain caused flooding in several parts of the countryMon Aug 11 2014 - 01:00
Man killed in road crash in CarlowFive people seriously injured in weekend collisionsMon Aug 11 2014 - 01:00
Ebola: can we contain this killer disease?In western countries Ebola is confined to thrillers and horror movies, but the biggest outbreak of the disease has health workers worried that the virus will get out of controlSat Aug 09 2014 - 01:00
Patients on trolleys ‘a real problem’, Varadkar saysFigures for July show 8% increase in numbers since last yearFri Aug 08 2014 - 20:10
Plain packaging will cost revenue, but bring health savingsIreland would be first EU member state to introduce plain-packaging legislationFri Aug 08 2014 - 01:05
Nurses call for beds to reopen as numbers on trolleys rise8% increase in hospital overcrowding in July compared with July 2013Fri Aug 08 2014 - 01:05
Pharmacies fined total of €21,000 over offencesMain issues included supply of prescription-only medicines without a prescriptionThu Aug 07 2014 - 09:18
Prostate cancer screening could cut deaths by 20%, study arguesDoubts over whether benefits of testing outweigh harm done, says the ‘Lancet’Thu Aug 07 2014 - 01:00
Delay on universal health insurance plan welcomedVaradkar backs away from target of introducing UHI by 2019Wed Aug 06 2014 - 01:00
Analysis: Additional funding needed to advance Varadkar’s agendaShelving costly universal health care is a good start from this MinisterWed Aug 06 2014 - 01:00
OECD survey finds Ireland spends less on health care but others disagreeThe recent OECD statistical survey on Ireland’s health service provided food for thought, despite its contested messagesTue Aug 05 2014 - 01:00
