A doctor has described allegations he prescribed performance-enhancing drugs to sports stars as "false and very misleading".

Twenty-seven registered doctors in Northern Ireland have a criminal record.

Jose Mourinho had seemingly heard enough, even though he hadn’t come anywhere close to saying enough.

A man with locked-in syndrome has launched a right- to-die legal challenge against guidelines preventing doctors from assisting patients to commit suicide.

Cosmetic procedure patients should be given a cooling-off period before going under the knife for treatment, according to new guidance from the UK's General Medical Council (GMC).

Just one doctor working in a public hospital was reported by the HSE over a 12-month period, it has emerged.

Jose Mourinho expects the summer transfer market to be “like Wall Street collapsing” as rivals attempt to reel in his Chelsea side.

While nearly all health professionals deny a link between the MMR vaccine and autism, rates of measles are rising in the US and the author of the discredited study is unapolegitic, writes Stav Ziv

Al-Zayyat guilty of professional misconduct, says medical council

Britain's Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has written to the British Government’s senior law officer for “urgent clarification” why two doctors accused of arranging abortions based on the sex of an unborn baby will not face prosecution.

A pilot programme is being rolled out across England aimed at reducing a spike in patient deaths on the day thousands of junior doctors start work.

A REVIEW of theatre consent forms at the country’s largest hospital found that only 5% contained a record of the specific risks involved.

A GP in the UK who failed to spot Baby P’s abuse can return to work as a doctor but only under strict conditions, the General Medical Council ruled today.

A GP who failed to spot Baby P’s abuse is not fully fit to resume practising as a doctor, the General Medical Council ruled today.

COMPLAINTS against doctors increased by more than a fifth last year, but people in Ireland are still less likely to complain than people in Britain, according to the Medical Council.

DR ANDREW Wakefield, the-now disgraced doctor who published studies linking vaccines with autism, committed an “elaborate fraud” by faking data, the British Medical Journal has said.

MORE than 20 doctors are currently receiving support from the Irish Medical Council (IMC) to cope with medical problems that could impact on their professional performance.

A doctor accused of failing to spot Tottenham youngster Baby P's abuse days before his death is seeking to have her name removed from the medical register, a disciplinary panel has heard.

IRELAND’S medical watchdog has warned that patients are at risk of serious medical mistakes because EU workforce rules mean common market doctors do not need to pass English language exams to work in this country.

AN IRISH Medical Council (IMC) fitness to practice committee has decided to remove a radiologist from the doctors’ register for failing to co-operate with an inquiry into the quality of her work in Britain.

The matchday doctor at the centre of the ’Bloodgate’ scandal is free to return to medicine and hopes to put an 18-month “nightmare” behind her.

A disciplinary panel today will consider today whether to issue a warning to the match-day doctor at the centre of the ’Bloodgate’ fake injury scandal.

HAVE you been following the Women’s Rugby World Cup? It seems a simple enough enquiry, doesn’t it, that I punted at half-a-dozen or more of my laddish, sports-mad, acquaintances in the past week.

The matchday doctor at the centre of the “Bloodgate” fake rugby injury scandal was told today she can practice medicine again.

A General Medical Council disciplinary panel in the UK today ruled Dr Freddy Patel, the pathologist who carried out the first autopsy on Ian Tomlinson who died at last year’s G20 protest, acted in a way that amounted to misconduct during two earlier post-mortem examinations and his fitness to practise is impaired.

DEPRESSION clouded the judgment of the Bloodgate matchday doctor who cut the lip of a rugby player to cover up his bogus injury, a panel heard yesterday.

Depression clouded the judgment of the “Bloodgate” matchday doctor who cut the lip of a rugby player to cover up his bogus injury, a panel heard today.

The matchday doctor at the centre of the 'Bloodgate' saga did not act in the best interests of the rugby player she cut to cover up a bogus injury, a disciplinary panel said today.

Harlequins chief executive Mark Evans admits the club will never be able to erase the stain of 'Bloodgate'.

A leading surgeon said today “Bloodgate” would not have happened if he had been allowed to inspect the bogus mouth injury of a rugby player.

The matchday rugby doctor at the centre of the “Bloodgate” fake injury scandal said today she was “ashamed” of her role in the event.

The doctor at the centre of the “Bloodgate” scandal will today give her account of events to a disciplinary panel.

HARLEQUINS winger Tom Williams said yesterday he made the matchday doctor at the centre of the ‘Bloodgate’ fake injury scandal “a victim” when he persuaded her to cut his lip.

The player at the centre of the “Bloodgate” fabricated rugby injury scandal admitted today he asked a matchday doctor to cut his lip as part of the deception.

A doctor at the centre of the “Bloodgate” fabricated rugby injury scandal will face a medical disciplinary hearing today.

A police riot squad officer was told today he will not be prosecuted over the death of Ian Tomlinson during G20 protests.

Baby P's GP was suspended by the UK's General Medical Council for 12 months today for a series of failures in his care of the toddler.

A GP who failed to spot Baby P was suffering abuse eight days before the toddler’s death will learn today whether he is to be struck off.

A British GP who breached his professional duty towards Baby P in the months leading up to the toddler’s death faces being struck off after a disciplinary panel ruled today that his fitness to practise was impaired.

A GP breached his professional duty towards Baby P in the months leading up to his death and “deprived” himself of an opportunity to protect the child, Britain's General Medical Council ruled today.

Baby P was probably suffering from eight broken ribs when he saw his GP eight days before his death, the General Medical Council (GMC) in Britiain heard today.

ANDREW WAKEFIELD, now struck off the medical register in Britain because of his dangerous campaign falsely to link the MMR vaccine to autism, is a lucky man that being disbarred from practice is all that has happened to him. Why are there no laws in Britain to prosecute charlatans like him when their lies damage the public health and become common currency worldwide?