The president of the High Court, Mr Justice Peter Kelly, said he was satisfied the orders are necessary having regard to the serious risk to the woman’s health and life.

Between 2,000 and 4,000 children between the ages of eight and 17 may be suffering from anorexia in Ireland.

A woman who is seriously ill in hospital arising out of an eating disorder is opposed to being made a ward of court, the High Court heard today.

An eating disorders specialist has expressed serious concern to the president of the High Court that doctors have to go to court to get orders to coercively feed patients with anorexia.

A teenage girl who is being sent to the UK for specialist treatment for severe anorexia is very anxious that her teddy bear comes with her, the High Court has heard.

Dancing with the Stars contestant Clelia Murphy has opened up about her struggle with anorexia as a teenager on The Late Late Show.

Two things people often think about are money and their appearance. Past research has shown that there is a correlation between the two: People subjectively considered attractive earn more.

A judge has made orders allowing for the transfer to hospital of a teenage girl with severe anorexia nervosa due to mounting concerns of “acute and chronic” risk to her health.

A judge has said he would be "horrified" if the HSE ceases to fund reasonably priced overnight stays in a UK city to facilitate involvement of the parents of a young man with severe anorexia in his specialist treatment there, writes Ann O’Louglin.

A place in a specialist eating disorder hospital in the UK is being urgently sought for a young man with severe anorexia nervosa, the High Court has heard.

I had a flashback recently. I am 21 and I am in the local Centra near the damp, messy house we rented when I was at university.

Deirdre O’Shaughnessy, a co-presenter of Cork’s 96FM programme The Opinion Line, recently interviewed a woman named Sharon whose daughter has been hospitalised with severe anorexia. 

Helen O’Callaghan looks at a successful therapy programme that encourages parents to be understanding and compassionate about their child’s eating disorder.

The mother of an 18-year-old woman, who is battling for her life against an eating disorder, has appealed to the HSE to urgently transfer her abroad for specialised treatment.

DJ Nikki Hayes accepts anorexia is part of who she is. “I suffered with anorexia when I was younger, so it’s is a little bit like being an alcoholic, you always have anorexia,” says the 36-year-old.

A court has granted orders allowing medics force feed an anorexic woman with a gastric tube.

The family of a teenager who is being treated for severe anorexia has held a protest outside the offices of the HSE in Cork, demanding she receive funding for overseas treatment.

Politicians in France have moved to make it a crime to use excessively thin models or encourage anorexia in a crackdown on the glorification of dangerously underweight women.

A British woman has had electrodes placed deep inside her brain in an experimental operation to help cure her of anorexia. She had wires carrying electricity connected to parts of her brain that register her feeling of reward when she eats.

A 22-year-old woman who suffers from the eating disorder anorexia nervosa is to be fed through a tube in hospital for another period, the president of the High Court decided yesterday after he was told she has gained weight.

Your advisory on what you term a “bewildering mental illness” is both helpful and partial, (editorial, February 12).

A new study at a Dublin hospital shows a dramatic increase in the number of boys being treated for anorexia.

Children barely into their teens are developing a potentially fatal eating disorder, with new research showing the average age for developing anorexia nervosa is now 13 years.

After Rachel Frederickson won the latest season of The Biggest Loser, having shed nearly 60% of her body weight, attention wasn’t focused on her $250,000 (€185,000) win — but rather the criticism surrounding her loss.