Charlie Gard's parents have ended their legal fight over treatment for the terminally-ill baby.

Charlie Gard's parents are considering their next steps ahead of the latest High Court hearing in a five-month legal battle over whether the terminally-ill baby should be treated by a specialist in America

Medics from Great Ormond Street Hospital in England are meeting two international experts and Charlie Gard's mother to discuss the 11-month-old's condition.

The parents of terminally-ill baby Charlie Gard have been told to spell out fresh evidence which might persuade a judge to let them take their child abroad for treatment.

A US hospital has offered to ship an experimental drug to the UK to help treat terminally-ill Charlie Gard.

Pioneering gene editing research has put the UK at the forefront of the next scientific revolution. Madhumita Murgia wonders if the rest of the world is ready for it or not.

Realisation that someone isn’t typically male or female can emerge at different life stages, writes Helen O’Callaghan.

A little girl with a complex bowel condition is to under- go vital medical tests at Great Ormond Street this weekend.

The head of research at the Irish Cancer Society has praised the designer of immune cell therapy which was used to reverse leukaemia in a one-year-old girl, and said it demonstrates how important such research is.

They’ve overcome so much in their short lives that starting big school tomorrow should be a breeze for Ireland’s best-known twins.

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The first organ donation from a newborn baby in the UK has taken place, described as a “milestone” by the doctor who arranged it.

A boy who was born without any ears has had a pair created from his own ribs – based on his mother’s ear shape.

A boy born without any ears has had a pair created from his own ribs.

Did you hear about the cyclists that got married in the middle of a bike race? It sounds like a joke – and that’s how it started. But it sounded such a good idea that Gary Watson and Lisa Russell went ahead and actually did it.

It was a day she thought would never happen. But thanks to the generosity of the Irish public, her Christmas miracle has come true.

The mother of twin girls born with the same medical condition, who raised €34,000 in just three days to fund a vital procedure abroad, is making final arrangements for their trip to a UK hospital.

Boy band Rough Copy have been voted out of the ‘X Factor’ – leaving solo acts Sam Bailey, Luke Friend and Nicholas McDonald to fight it out in next week’s final.

The man who established the world’s first interactive ambulance service for sick children has offered to transport twins born with a rare life-threatening condition to London for a vital procedure.

A British toddler is preparing to go home for the first time in her life after spending almost three years at Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Former Republic of Ireland midfielder Damien Duff has spoken of the “longest four hours” of his life as his baby son underwent heart surgery.

Christmas presents destined for sick children in an intensive care unit have been stolen from a hospital.

The advances made in medicine over the past century and a half have been phenomenal.

A team of British doctors have successfully separated twin girls who were born joined at the head.

A TEAM of British doctors has successfully separated twin girls who were born joined at the head.

One of Ireland’s second most famous set of twin brothers after pint-sized pop duo Jedward missed his chance to mingle with royalty on the final day of the Queen’s visit to Ireland.

A FOUR-YEAR-OLD boy has become the smallest person in Britain to have a successful lung transplant.

THERE’S passion aplenty round Peter and Anna Warburton’s west Cork heartland.

A man will appear in court in Britain today charged with the murder of a 14-month-old boy.

Dutch supermodel Lara Stone has won “significant” damages from French Playboy after the magazine published unauthorised photographs of her, lawyers said today.

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.

A senior doctor who claimed Baby P could have been saved if her warnings had been heeded is suing Britain's National Health Service (NHS) for compensation, it was revealed today.

SURGEONS hope the groundbreaking surgery carried out on 11-year-old Ciarán Finn-Lynch will lead to arevolution in regenerative medicine.

The London parents whose sleeping baby twins were attacked by a fox said it was probably a “freak occurrence” but they are still too frightened to leave doors and windows open.

THE mother of Ireland’s little fighters has told how she believes their remarkable spirit will help them overcome their disability.

YOUNG twins Hassan and Hussein Benhaffaf who were separated in complex surgery in London in April are to receive a civic reception at Cork City Hall next week.

Twin baby girls mauled by a fox as they slept remained in hospital today as London Mayor Boris Johnson said councils should “focus on their duties for pest control”.

British detectives investigating the discovery of a baby’s body at a railway station have traced the mother of the child.

British detectives said today they urgently want the mother of a new born baby found dead at a railway station to come forward.

THE mother of conjoined twins Hassan and Hussein Benhaffhaf, who returned home this weekend, has joked that she hopes Cork City Hall “will be big enough for everyone” as celebrations continue following the boys’ speedy recovery.

IT WAS the moment they dreamt of but feared would never happen. After weeks of unimaginable stress, parents Angie and Azzedine Benhaffhaf enjoyed their happy ending as they brought their little fighters home to Ireland.