A consultant general surgeon has brought a High Court challenge to a decision by the Medical Council to proceed with an inquiry into a patient's complaint against him despite the complainant's wish not to pursue it.

A charity has deployed its latest rapid response medical jeep to help save lives in North Kerry and West Limerick.

A family, who lost their much-loved mother due to a medical misdiagnosis, are calling for tighter guidelines and procedures to be put in place in public hospitals nationwide, as they do not want others to suffer like they did.

A bill to legalise cannabis for medicinal use was rejected by the Oireachtas Health Committee out of fear that it could decriminalise the recreational use of the drug, it has emerged.

A medical consultant claimed, as an expense, wages to his child for website design services, the Revenue chairman has revealed.

Ireland has joined a global trial to test a new treatment for early stage breast cancer.

A Frenchwoman who received the world's first partial face transplant has died, 11 years after the surgery that set the stage for dozens of other transplants worldwide.

A catalogue of failures contributed to the stillbirth of a baby girl at a hospital in the North, a landmark inquest has heard.

A three-year-old boy had both his legs and most of his fingers amputated after doctors in the UK wrongly diagnosed a life-threatening infection as common childhood condition tonsillitis.

A major investigation has been launched after medical waste including tablets, urine specimen bottles, and used syringes — some clearly displaying the names of patients — washed up on the shores of Cork harbour.

Survivors of the Costa Concordia cruise-liner disaster are flying back to Italy today, after the ship operator failed to accept the findings of UK medical experts.

Mainstay Medical — the Dublin-based medical devices firm — has raised a fresh €30m in funding via the placement of 2.3m new ordinary shares in the company.

Doctors must warn patients with pacemakers that their devices may be disrupted by anti-theft devices used in shops, experts have said.

Pharmacists are calling on the Government to exempt all vulnerable patients from the current medical charge levy.

A Longford medical company is to part-benefit from an EU grant that will help bring a unique wound-healing product to market.

Pre-tax profits at the Irish arm of global medical technology giant Genzyme last year increased by 5% to €50.56m as revenues topped €1.55bn.

A medical group apologised to surgeons and trainees in Australia and New Zealand after a report found that almost half had suffered discrimination, bullying and sexual harassment from senior surgeons.

A biological Velcro has been developed that makes it possible to stack layers of living tissue together and then peel them apart.

Fears of an Alzheimer’s explosion are unfounded, according to new research showing that dementia rates may be stabilising in the UK and other parts of Europe.

People who engage in light or moderate drinking every day are at an increased risk of cancer, a study has found.

Jose Mourinho will today answer the critics for the first time since the controversy over Chelsea doctor Eva Carneiro blew up.

Members of the Medical Laboratory Scientists Association (MLSA) have voted to accept the Lansdowne Road proposals on public pay.

A partially sighted pensioner has had his central vision restored for the first time in nearly a decade after he received a “bionic eye”.

A teenager born with the condition known as pigeon chest is now standing taller than his twin brother after undergoing an innovative new treatment to correct the condition.

A leading hospital failed to provide records to the HSE’s national audit on hand hygiene last year which would have shown it is falling far behind other facilities in ensuring patient safety.

A woman stole the identity of a qualified GP and used it to work in a pharmacy — where she dispensed medication to unsuspecting patients, a court heard.

More than 100,000 illegal prescription medicines worth almost €300,000 were seized in Ireland in one week. During the operation, 85 medicine packages were taken by custom officials at postal sorting offices.

Fears that the Government plan to introduce universal health insurance (UHI) is unworkable and based on a “utopian concept” which would be impossible to implement were raised by doctors at the weekend.

Designed to ease patient anxiety and deliver significant improvements in the quality of the images produced, the new €2.5m CT suite at the Mercy University Hospital is a perfect blend of the comfortable and the clinical.

Cholesterol-lowering statins have almost no side-effects, with patients experiencing fewer adverse symptoms than when taking a dummy drug, researchers say.