DOCTORS wary of negative portrayal in the media are ordering unnecessary investigations and avoiding treating certain conditions.

DOCTORS could not operate on a man requiring urgent surgery as there was no out-of-hours scan facility at the hospital, an inquest has heard.

DOCTORS have warned patients’ lives will be at risk because of a plan by the Health Service Executive to slash funding to an out of hours GP service in the north east.

DOCTORS on both sides of the Irish border have joined forces to call for an EU-wide approach to defuse the obesity “time-bomb” facing the continent.

DOCTORS have carried out groundbreaking surgery to rebuild the windpipe of a 10-year-old British boy from his own stem cells.

DOCTORS have claimed vital emergency department units & are being over- stretched because of “woefully inadequate” staff and low locum cover.

YOU report Hillary Clinton (January 29) as saying “being pro-choice does not mean being pro-abortion”.

DOCTORS want cancer “centres of excellence” rebranded as “specialist centres” to allay patient fears that treatment anywhere other than the so-called centres of excellence may be substandard.

DOCTORS should undertake communication refresher courses and be able to access industry standard guidebooks to appropriate language when dealing with the ill, a patients’ group said yesterday.

DOCTORS only had themselves to blame for not making it clear that breast cancer can still be missed — even with the best systems in place, a leading member of the National Cancer Control Programme has claimed.

DOCTORS are getting ready to introduce a cheap in vitro fertilisation procedure across Africa, where women are sometimes ostracised as witches or social outcasts if they cannot have children.

DOCTORS will go public today to highlight how funding and staffing cuts are threatening their town’s hospital.

DOCTORS have reported more than 250 complaints in recent weeks detailing how the Health Service Executive (HSE) recruitment embargo and budget cuts have hit the delivery of services and patient care.

DOCTORS tackling a TB outbreak in Cork will begin screening at a city creche again this morning where an adult case of the disease was confirmed last week.

DOCTORS yesterday blamed the acute shortage of hospital beds for the growth in MRSA infections.

DOCTORS will be able to prescribe self-help books instead of pills for patients with psychological problems under a new scheme launched in Dublin yesterday.

DOCTORS are worried over the delay in establishing a fully operational independent nursing home inspectorate.

DOCTORS launched a major study yesterday to investigate how a new infant formula similar to breast milk could help prevent eczema in babies.

DOCTORS in Utah completed reconstructive surg- ery on one of two formerly conjoined twins yesterday after a 16-hour operation separated the girls, born fused at the midsection.

DOCTORS have been contacting asylum seeker support groups in desperate efforts to secure untrained interpreters, it has emerged.

DOCTORS have called for new laws regarding their rights to prescribe contraception to those below the age of consent.

DOCTORS have warned that they may be forced to withdraw out-of-hours coverage for patients unless the Department of Health and Health Services Executive offer more support to GPs.

DOCTORS fanned out yesterday to immunise children in Pakistan’s earthquake zone against measles and other diseases ahead of winter, but they warned they may not have enough money to finish the job.

DOCTORS have called for an immediate increase in acute hospital beds and an end to tax breaks for private facilities with the money spent instead on the public health system.

DOCTORS will eachreceive in excess of €40,000 if they accept a deal which will pave the way for treating 200,000 patients under a new limited medical card.

DOCTORS developing a new private hospital in Waterford say their facility is ideal for radiotherapy services for public and private patients in the region.

DOCTORS yesterday sounded a new warning over a virulent multi-drug resistant strain of HIV that can trigger full-blown AIDS within four months of infection.

DOCTORS have called for clear guidelines before plans to allow public hearings into complaints against them pass into law.

DOCTORS approached for advice on drugs in sport are often unsure which over-the-counter (OTC) medicines contain a banned substance, a survey has found. Of the GPs who took part in the research, 74% believed Sinutab contained a banned substance.

DOCTORS will for the first time have to charge VAT on certain medical services following two European Court of Justice landmark judgments.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern will seek to quell simmering tensions over the controversial Hanly report at today’s Fianna Fáil parliamentary party and Cabinet meetings.

DOCTORS want the price of a packet of 20 cigarettes to be increased by €2 in next month’s Budget.

DOCTORS have appealed to parents and schools to discourage children under the age of 16 from using mobile phones.

DOCTORS will have to repay millions wrongly given to them for treating up to 20,000 medical card patients who were either dead or ineligible, the Department of Health insisted last night.

DOCTORS last night warned that patients on waiting lists will have their operations deferred if a series of one-day strikes are rolled out nationally next month.

Russian authorities are preparing to send home a US aid worker who was reportedly held hostage by Chechen rebels.