Batman star Christian Bale has met survivors of the Colorado cinema shooting, and thanked medical staff and police officers who responded to the attack that killed 12 people and injured 58 others.

An Irish-born attorney ranked as one of America’s top lawyers has won a record medical malpractice suit in New York.

A MEDICAL centre in Killarney has secured planning retention but strict conditions have been imposed by An Bord Pleanála.

Shot politician Gabrielle Giffords was “even more alert” and progressing well, her chief doctor said, a day after beginning intensive rehabilitation in Houston, Texas.

Crowds cheered Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords as she left a Tucson hospital where she stunned doctors with her recovery two weeks after being shot in the head in an assassination bid.

IRELAND’S first stroke centre, which opens in Cork within weeks, will be the most advanced of its kind in Europe.

THE death of Jeffry Picower, accused of profiting more than $7 billion (€7.7bn) from the investment schemes of his longtime friend Bernard Madoff, will make it more difficult for suing investors to recoup their money, attorneys have said.

MALLOW will be the first area in the country to get a fully integrated primary healthcare centre involving a total investment of €25 million.

Hundreds of worried pilgrims crowded around a photo display at a medical centre in Mina, Saudi Arabia, today, scanning anxiously for pictures of loved ones who may have been among the 362 people killed the day before in a deadly stampede.