New research indicates that intentional drug overdose is the most common method used in a large number of "concerning" presentations at hospitals involving people who are homeless.

The first homeless liaison nurse at one of the country’s busiest hospitals says that half of the homeless people who attended the emergency department in the first four months of this year left before they received full treatment.

Well-wishers have been sending their thoughts across the Atlantic for cystic fibrosis campaigner Orla Tinsley who had a long-awaited double lung transplant in New York on Wednesday night.

A taxi driver is finally on the road to recovery with a double lung transplant — after eight false calls for the surgery.

Showjumping Ireland is to investigate the serious injury of Deirdre Bourns, mother of international showjumper Andrew Bourns, after she was struck by a horse at Cavan Equestrian Centre Indoor Championships on Wednesday.

Giovanni Trapattoni will remain in hospital overnight, the Football Association of Ireland have confirmed.

HOSPITAL consultants are urging pedestrians to exercise caution in the current icy conditions, amid reports of hospital Emergency Departments being inundated with fractures and other injuries.

There are at least 171 patients sleeping on hospital trolleys in Irish hospitals today, according to the latest count from the Irish Nurses Organisation.

Rush-hour motorists face traffic chaos today after severe thunderstorms flooded roads across the capital.

UP to 1,000 people who die in this country from stokes each year could be saved if there were enough specialist stroke unit beds in the health system.

AS violence in Ireland’s hospitals worsens medical consultants are insisting the Health Service Executive (HSE) improve security arrangements in all hospitals.

WORK is expected to start on the design and construction of the new national children’s hospital on a site adjacent to Dublin’s Mater Hospital at the end of the year, the Health Service Executive (HSE) announced yesterday.

A plasterer’s son watched in horror as his father fell head-first from scaffolding on a Co Roscommon building site, an inquest heard today.

UP to 8,000 couples attend Irish fertility clinics every year which results in 1,000 babies being born by assisted human reproduction techniques.

Production-line medicine is to blame for rising rates of the deadly MRSA superbug infection in the North’s acute hospitals, according to research published today.

The Health Service Executive today defended the progress of a €70m package to reduce pressure on Accident & Emergency units.

A BUSY acute hospital last night disputed a claim that medical staff had to treat patients in ambulances yesterday because there was no room for them in the Accident and Emergency department.

Nurses hit out at hospital management today accusing them of attempting to hide the escalating crisis in the country’s accident and emergency wards.

NEW figures show more than 250 patients in Dublin hospital could be moved to nursing homes to free up acute beds and relieve the A&E crisis.

Nurses worked under protest at one of the country’s main hospitals today to highlight the dangers they face over parking problems.

IN the coronary care unit of a Cork hospital, the miracle of birth and the miracle of life are tightly bound.