The State’s pricing deal with the pharmaceutical industry ends this year, and the funding of innovation must become a priority, if patients here are to have the early access that patients elsewhere in western Europe have, says Bernard Mallee

A diabetes sufferer from Waterford says he's "quietly confident" he can become the first person to successfully kitesurf between France and Ireland, in the process raising €50,000 for a charity dear to his heart.

Micheál Martin was referring to new HSE figures that he claims are “further evidence” of Fine Gael's failure to properly manage the health service

Dr Anna Clarke,  health promotion and research manager for Diabetes Ireland, tells us about her working day. 

The HSE can recoup the cost of bariatric surgery within two years and then go on to save millions on medication costs, according to obesity experts.

DR CIARA Kelly has her own prescription for success. Determined to live life to the full, she looks not to her contemporaries for inspiration but to Dr William Wilde, a 19th-century surgeon.

There are 381 people in the south-east who have been waiting up to two years to see a consultant in diabetes.

As many as 10% of diabetes cases among people aged 50 and over may be undiagnosed, according to the country’s top study on aging.

Marjorie Brennan talks to Dr Amy Herlihy about her experience of gestational diabetes and what can be done to avoid it in pregnancy.

It’s being described as a “breakthrough towards an artificial pancreas” and it has certainly transformed the life of diabetic Mary Vaughan.

Excess sugar and carbohydrates — not physical inactivity — are behind the surge in obesity, health experts have claimed.

People with the most common form of diabetes are not controlling the condition, but think they are.

Children’s health will suffer with the loss of a quality paediatric diabetes service at University Hospital Limerick, a national campaign group has warned.

The long-term health of thousands of diabetes sufferers is being put at risk after a leading hospital pushed out their annual check-ups to 18 months due to pressures on the service.

Steve Redgrave. Wasim Akram. Scott Verplank.

Significant deficiencies have emerged in a national audit in services for children with Type 1 diabetes.

A group of parents is to travel from Donegal to the Dáil next week to hand in a petition to the Health Minister over the care for their diabetic children.

One person every day is still having a leg amputated because of the Government’s failure to properly fund early diabetes screening checks.

Up to 300 children with diabetes unable to access a doctor specifically trained in their treatment for the past six months will be able to do so from next week.

IT was 2am and Velvet, my six-year-old daughter, was sitting upright in her bed, screaming.

Dublin defender Kevin Nolan has revealed the impact Type 1 diabetes has had on his inter-county career.

Years of political inaction have resulted in shocking levels of diabetes-related lower limb amputations, a campaign group has claimed.

Health Minister James Reilly must persist with plans to tackle fizzy drink and confectionery lobby groups if he is to prevent the health service from being “overwhelmed” with a growing diabetes crisis.

Diabetes patients are being warned to have their blood pressure and kidney function checked every year.

Diabetic children living in the South will no longer have to travel to Dublin for specialised treatment after the HSE South sanctioned the appointment of a diabetes nurse specialist at Cork University Hospital.

PRESIDENT Michael D Higgins will attend tomorrow evening’s qualifier between the Republic of Ireland and Estonia as part of a busy first week of official engagements.