The opening of the national children's hospital's two satellite centres has been pushed back as it is emerged the cost of the long-delayed project has spiralled to nearly €1.4bn - up from €1bn in just...
More than 2,500 women may seek a medical abortion from a GP or maternity hospital next year.
The rush to have the new abortion service in place by January is "unacceptable and unsafe," a GP organisation has warned.
More than one-third of all people who attended the country's largest sexual assault unit for treatment chose not to report the alleged sexual offence to gardaí.
The calorie content of popular meals in restaurant chains is excessive and only a minority are meeting public health recommendations, a new report warns.
Women whose unborn babies have fatal abnormalities will be able to get abortions from January at the National Maternity Hospital.
Laboratories commissioned to carry out screening tests for CervicalCheck are to be subject to more monitoring and quality assurance rules.
A Dublin couple who are caught up in the CervicalCheck controversy were among a group who staged a protest outside Leinster House to highlight their exasperation after Health Minister Simon Harris cancelled a meeting with them at short notice.
The HSE has lost his second boss in just six months, it has been confirmed.
A significant number of pregnant women in Ireland may be "secret smokers", leaving their baby at risk of being malnourished.
Doctors have sent a stark letter to Health Minister Simon Harris warning that women having abortions could be put at risk unless a safe service in in...
Thousands of teenage boys are to be offered a lifesaving vaccine - currently administered only to girls - to protect them against deadly cancers.
Women will not be able to secure a medical abortion from GP out-of-hours surgeries, the Irish Independent has learned.
THE health minister is set to extend the HPV vaccine to boys after the health watchdog Hiqa today recommended it be rolled out.
Patients who are suffering long waits on A&E trolleys during the worst weeks of overcrowding may be moved to another hospital which is less busy as part of the HSE's winter plan.
Cuts in homecare hours at a time when more people with complex needs are crying out for the service is a "serious accident waiting to happen", it was claimed yesterday.
The HSE is getting a "steady return" of contracts from GPs applying to provide a medical abortion service from January, it was claimed yesterday.
Consumers have been urged to be vigilant when purchasing ‘high-end’ leading brands of beauty products on sale through certain outlets such as markets and websites at Christmas.
The HSE has lost its second boss in just over six months.
Victims of the CervicalCheck scandal staged a protest at Leinster House yesterday after Health Minister Simon Harris cancelled a meeting with them at short notice.
People with epilepsy will get a greater insight into their condition following the discovery of 11 genes associated with the illness.
Abortion services will have to be phased in from January as a significant number of GPs and maternity hospitals do not feel ready to fully participate, it emerged yesterday.
It took nearly six months to implement the last abortion law in 2014 allowing for termination of pregnancy where there is a real and substantial risk to a woman's life from a physical illness, including suicide.
A bleak insight into the stigma and isolation felt by former heroin addicts who are now stabilised long-term on methadone is revealed in a new report today.
Several women in crisis pregnancies are delaying going to a UK clinic and are contacting doctors here to make appointments for a medical abortion in early January, it emerged yesterday.
The HSE has been urged to agree to early mediation talks for terminally or seriously ill patients caught up in the X-ray and scan failures in University Hospital Kerry.
The HSE has written to GPs to advise them that the additional free smear tests offered by CervicalCheck will no longer be available after December 31.
Moving patients from one hospital struggling with A&E chaos to a bed in another hospital which is under less strain will have undoubted benefits.
Patients have been warned to be watchful of overcharging, after one man was wrongly billed €1,500 for a number of hospital stays.
One of the 11 patients who suffered delayed diagnosis due to a hospital's X-ray and scan failures was unaware they had lung cancer for almost a year-and-a-half.
The review of scans overseen by a locum radiologist at University Hospital Kerry over 16 months reads like another catalogue of tragedy for 11 patients whose cancers were missed - four of whom are now dead.
The additional 550 homecare packages to be funded over the winter to ease the trolley crisis are expected to benefit only nine hospitals.
Plans are under way to replace clinic visits with 'virtual' psychiatrists who can treat children with mental health problems through video link.
ELEVEN patients, including a number who had cancer, suffered a delayed diagnosis due to hospital X-ray and scan failures, a new report revealed today.
A patient who was wrongly charged €1,500 for a number of public hospital stays has received a €750 refund after bringing his case to the Ombudsman, Peter Tyndall.
The HSE is seeking a €655m supplementary budget bailout today as it blames a major fall-off in hospital income from privately insured patients for helping put it into the red again this year.
Doctors and hospitals have yet to receive guidelines on how women having abortions will be cared for.
Pensioners should take up weightlifting and eat more protein-rich food and drinks to stop them becoming frail in old age, scientists have advised.
Thousands of expectant mothers will still be without routine access to a 20-week pregnancy scan to tell them if their baby had a fatal foetal abnormality as the Government prepares to implement abortion legislation.
Veganism is more about being trendy than being healthy, according to four in 10 young people who responded to a survey.
The first medical abortion in Ireland may take place as early as January 8, despite the escalation of a row between GPs over how the new service will run.
A row has broken out between GPs over the Government’s proposed abortion law.
Outspoken Dr Rhona Mahony, who finishes her seven-year term as Master of the National Maternity Hospital this month, has appealed for the new extended abortion service to be properly resourced.
People with disabilities will be able to earn €427 per week before they lose their medical card benefits, a rise of 250pc.
Some women who undergo cervical screening and have abnormalities can wait up to nine months for investigation, the Irish Independent has learned.
The benefits of the economic recovery have yet to trickle down to many deprived areas and improve the mental health of the least well off, it emerged today.
Four out of five Irish men with prostate cancer showed no symptoms when they were diagnosed with the disease, according to new research.
People on the disability allowance will now be able to work and earn more while holding on to their medical card.
The latest statistics showing thousands of patients are only being diagnosed with cancer after presenting as emergencies in A&E lay bare a worrying problem which is not getting better.
The abortion legislation faces further debate at report stage in the Dáil next week, piling pressure on the January deadline for services.
More than 3,000 patients a year are only finding out they have cancer when they attend a hospital A&E department.
Hundreds of ambulance staff are threatening a one-day national strike on Wednesday, December 19.
Residents in a HSE-run nursing home did not have a choice of seating in a communal dining room at lunchtime while men and women were segregated, according to a new inspection report.
Cancer has overtaken heart disease for the first time to become Ireland's biggest killer.
Ambulance staff – including including paramedics, advanced paramedics and emergency medical technicians- who are members of the Psychiatric Nurses Association (PNA) are threatening a one-day national strike on Wednesday, December 19.
Many of Ireland's older generation are problem drinkers, a new study has revealed.
A surge in patients aged over 75 is fuelling hospital overcrowding, leading to a record 100,000 people lying on trolleys so far this year.
The delay in returning certain CervicalCheck test results is now taking longer than five months in some cases.
A staggering 100,000 patients have waited on trolleys for a bed so far this year - the highest on record.
The ongoing gaps in information about the CervicalCheck controversy are "heart wrenching and confusing for patients and families," a conference was told today.
Quality of life for people in Ireland peaks at 68 years of age – and then gradually declines.
The main children's hospitals in Dublin had 13 young patients on trolleys yesterday morning, according to the HSE's own figures.
A record 37,473 children are now in some health queue waiting for assessment for mental health, disability or speech and language problems, it emerged yesterday.
Nurses and midwives who have conscientious objections to the termination of pregnancy are still completely in the dark about how their jobs will change with just weeks to go to the roll-out of the proposed new abortion law, it was claimed yesterday.
CervicalCheck is now using a laboratory in the UK to try to reduce delays of up to five months for the return of results amid a backlog of around 80,000 smear tests.
Women with cervical cancer who are excluded from free access to the expensive drug Pembrolizumab were given new hope today.
Two of the hospitals that do invasive diagnostic testing for BowelScreen, the national programme to detect bowel cancer, have lost their accreditation - an external quality assurance mark of performance and standards.
Patients have given emotional testimonies of overcrowded A&Es, describing one as "a complete zoo".
Long A&E trolley waits, hurried doctors and being discharged home from hospital without enough advice on drug side effects have emerged as top patient grievances in a new survey.
patients aged over 75 are to be assessed in A&Es by special "frailty" teams of health staff during the worst of the trolley crisis in a bid to cut down on needless admissions to a ward, it emerged yesterday.
Hundreds of women a month have travelled to Britain for abortions since May's Repeal the Eighth referendum, figures reveal.
A record number of newborn babies were "frozen" last year to save them from dying and disability.
The group of anti-abortion GPs who organised a petition to hold a meeting of doctors to discuss objections to referring a woman for a termination of pregnancy said the decision not to hear motions at the gathering was "farcical and untenable".
Nearly 200 women are waiting to be tested for a gene which leaves them at higher risk of cancer, it emerged yesterday.
The top-earning GP practice in the medical card scheme earned more than €1.1m last year.
The top earning GP practice in the medical card scheme made over €1.1m last year.
Obesity, unhealthy lifestyles and an ageing population have pushed Ireland to the second highest rate of cancer in the EU.
The rate of new cancers diagnosed in Ireland this year may be the second highest in the EU - although it is important to also highlight more people are surviving the disease.
Obesity, unhealthy lifestyles and an ageing population have pushed Ireland to the second highest rate of cancer in the EU.
Ireland received a warning today about a slowdown in life expectancy gains in recent years in many European countries.
Efforts are still under way to try to secure extra funding for a clinical trial to give an advanced drug to women with cervical cancer who are outside the 221 CervicalCheck group, an oncologist said yesterday.
Fourteen children were waiting on trolleys in the main children's hospitals yesterday morning as winter overcrowding pressures escalated.
Irish doctors have called on their UK colleagues to help train them in carrying out abortions in advance of the new law extending the grounds for termination of pregnancy.
The string of allegations of past abuse revealed by Scouting Ireland yesterday marks the unveiling of more dark secrets from another trusted Irish institution.
Controversial vaginal mesh implants should only be offered to women following assessment and detailed discussion about the associated risks and benefits as well as alternative treatment, a Department of Health report said today.
The Government has created another two-tier health service that pays GPs €450 to provide an abortion but just €250 to look after a woman during pregnancy, doctors warned yesterday.
The HSE is set to roll out 550 additional homecare packages over the winter in a desperate bid to relieve the worst weeks of the trolley crisis.
Will the new abortion service create another health divide?
Parents should set rules to stop their teenagers from drinking alcohol until they are at least 18, a psychiatrist has advised.
Pre-school facilities reported 11 children going "missing" last year.
Young people and pregnant women could be among the worst hit by this year's flu season as swine flu is likely to be a dominant strain.
Hundreds of women who were given the all-clear for a gene that could increase their chances of cancer face an agonising wait to find out if they got the right result.
More than half of complaints made about creches and other pre-school centres last year involved a serious injury to a child.
Clodagh O Donovan spent years living in fear that her son Eoghan would accidentally eat a peanut hidden in a slice of a home-made cake or brownie and develop a life-threatening reaction.
Health Minister Simon Harris has said the case of a seriously ill woman who was wrongly told she did not have a faulty gene which increased her odds of cancer is likely to be “an isolated incident”.
The UK hospital which carried out testing on an Irish woman for cancer gene BRCA1 said the woman tested positive for the gene - and they passed on this information to her doctors in Crumlin.
Some of the women at the centre of the CervicalCheck scandal had been diagnosed with cancer more than six years before their test results were re-examined.
GPs agreed to a €450 fee for a medical abortion this week, despite not yet being trained in how to deliver the service.
People suffering from cystic fibrosis, who have a particular genetic form of the condition, are to be offered fresh hope with a new drug.
Fewer elderly are now entering nursing homes and by the time they become residents most are highly dependent with complex needs, a new report has revealed.
The Government is ramping up preparations for a no-deal Brexit amid massive uncertainty over whether or not the proposed withdrawal agreement with the UK will be passed in Westminster.
The family of a woman who died last year after a trial drug that gave her a "new lease of life" was withdrawn have welcomed the HSE's decision to fund it for a number of other patients.
The use of mechanical restraint on a number of mental health patients in a public psychiatric hospital has been criticised in a new inspection report.
Four women at the centre of the CervicalCheck scandal did not have cervical cancer, it has emerged.
Family doctors are to be written to asking them if they are interested in providing abortions from January, following an agreement to pay them fees of up to €450 for each patient.
Scores of mostly elderly patients are to be transferred from hospitals to their homes or community facilities from the beginning of next month in a bid to free up beds in time for a peak in the trolley crisis.
GPs are to receive a written request to provide medical abortions from January following an agreement on fees of €450.
The HSE is searching "worldwide" for laboratories to help clear a massive backlog of CervicalCheck smear tests, it was revealed today.
GPs who are to receive a fee of €450 for medical abortions are likely to only see two to three women requesting the service annually.
Nobody wants to be in hospital longer than needed - not least because they are at higher risk of infection. However, the most recent figures showing a rise in delayed discharges - patients who no longer need to be in a hospital but have nowhere suitable to go - is something of a setback.
Young garda Martin Hopkins, whose family highlighted his battle against pancreatic cancer, died peacefully surrounded by his loved ones yesterday.
Irish research has revealed people who are obese are more prone to cancer due to their weakened ability to destroy tumour cells.
GPs who deliver medical abortions are expected to be paid a fee in the region of €400 per patient.
It's the hospital that Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has singled out as the star performer for tackling its A&E trolley crisis.
A heartbroken wife, who is keeping vigil at her dying husband's bedside, has spoken of how he was struck down in his prime by one of the most deadly cancers.
