Five of Ireland’s most senior obstetricians and gynaecologists say they are “horrified” by comments made by their colleagues about maternal care in Ireland.

Ahead of International Women’s Day, Pádraig Hoare talks to Leisha Daly, country director of Janssen, the pharmaceutical firm of Johnson & Johnson, about women leaders

A report published eight years ago about the future of our maternity services recommended that the midlands hospital at the centre of four controversial baby deaths be brought within the governance of the Coombe — but this was not acted upon at the time.

While abortion issues represent a minefield for legislators, the medical situation is far clearer.

MINISTER for Health Dr James Reilly officially opened a new dedicated treatment centre at Cork University Hospital (CUH) yesterday which will deliver vast improvements in the quality of care for people with bleeding disorders.

HEALTH Minister Dr James Reilly will open a new haemophilia centre at Cork University Hospital today — five years after a study found that services at the hospital for people with bleeding disorders were “grossly inadequate”.

BABIES born at night had more than double the death rate of daytime deliveries, according to a survey of thousands of births at a Cork hospital.

BIRTHS to single mothers almost doubled in the decade leading up to 2000, figures released today reveal.

A WOMAN receiving fertility treatment died of complications arising from the procedure, a hospital spokesperson confirmed last night.

Fionnuala Quinlan says that middle-age pregnancy is fraught with problems