An investigation is underway into the cause of today's fire at the Adelaide and Meath Hospital in Tallaght in Dublin.

A fire has broken out the Adelaide and Meath Hospital in Tallaght, Dublin today.

HEALTH Minister Mary Harney is facing new calls for her resignation over the country’s ongoing emergency department crisis, after almost 150 people were left waiting on trolleys at a major hospital over two days this week.

SENIOR officials at Cork University Hospital have raised concerns that the facility’s oncology service could be put under severe pressure if any cap on the number of oncology outpatients seen at Mercy University Hospital is introduced.

PATIENTS at Tallaght Hospital are waiting up to five years for dermatology services and no new referrals are being taken due to a backlog of cases.

Tallaght Hospital has been hit by the winter vomiting bug.

OVER the next year more than four million Europeans will die from heart disease — and most of it could be prevented, an Irish cardiologist has told the European Parliament.

MORE than 15,000 patients are waiting for treatment at Tallaght Hospital, according to figures obtained by the Labour Party.

THE accuracy of a survey which gave a clean bill of health to six hospitals, claiming no patients had hospital-acquired infections, has been challenged by patients and politicians.

A DISEASE that claims nearly 1,000 Irish lives every year could be stopped in its tracks if the Government acts now, according to a leading medic.

Ireland is set to become a world leader in Alzheimer’s disease research following the annoucement of a new scientific study yesterday.

A GROWING number of Irish men and women in their 20s and early 30s are reporting to hospitals with pancreatitis — a disease directly linked to excessive alcohol consumption that can lead to diabetes and cancer.

THE Health Service Executive (HSE) awarded a company a €56 million contract this year, despite one of the country's biggest hospitals expressing repeated dissatisfaction with the same firm.

MORE THAN 80 operations and other scheduled procedures are cancelled every day in hospitals around the country because of shortages of beds and staff, according to health experts.

WARDS have been closed to visitors and surgery cancelled as the winter vomiting bug continues to spread, infecting 110 patients in two Dublin hospitals.

THE Communications Workers Union (CWU) is this morning preparing for legal action in a bid to force An Post to reinstate more than 500 suspended employees.