Bolton midfielder Fabrice Muamba is continuing to make “strong and steady improvements” in his recovery from a cardiac arrest as he celebrates his 24th birthday.

With the cold snap continuing the decimate the racing fixture list, the British Horseracing Authority have moved to lessen the damage by adding three further all-weather fixtures for next week.

HEALTH authorities have been unable to establish conclusively whether a doctor registered to work in Ireland and responsible for a number of botched procedures in Britain ever practised here.

NORTHGATE INFORMATION SOLUTIONS which provide payroll services to St Vincent’s, St Michael’s and Beaumont hospitals in Dublin and Mercy Hospital in Cork, as well as to six of the former Health Boards around the country, announced the acquisition of Link HR Systems yesterday.

The so-called “Piano Man” has been discharged from care in Britain, it was confirmed today.

Hospital bosses in Britain are considering moving Bibles from patients’ bedsides because of concerns about offending non-Christians and spreading the superbug MRSA, it emerged today.

POLICE have been called in to investigate claims that a hospital involved in a legal fight over the treatment of a seriously ill baby has been administering drugs to hasten the child’s death.

The legal row surrounding the black twins born to a white couple after an IVF blunder will be taken back to the British High Court tomorrow.

Genetic testing has established that the white woman who gave birth to black twins after an IVF treatment error is their biological mother, it was disclosed today.

A WHITE couple has had black twins after a mix-up at a British fertility clinic.

Torex has announced the acquisition of Irish company McKeown Software for a maximum total consideration of Stg£11.75m, made up of £7.5m in cash and the rest to be in cash or Torex shares.