The country’s three main children’s hospitals have begun postponing elective procedures due to mounting pressure on the system ahead of the peak winter months.

A consultant dermatologist misdiagnosed ringworm in two children as seborrhoeic dermatitis of the scalp and as a result prescribed an inappropriate treatment which added to their discomfort and pain, the Circuit Civil Court was told Tuesday.

A nine-year-old boy who was struck by a car as he crossed Aungier Street,Dublin, at a pedestrian crossing has been awarded damages of €32,000 in the Circuit Civil Court.

A mother watching her 13-year old son play a hurling match helped save his life after a sliotar blow to his chest stopped his heart beating.

A hospital has unreservedly apologised in the High Court to a 52- year old woman who was given the incorrect 'normal' diagnosis for a breast cancer gene test nine years ago but is now seriously ill with ovarian cancer.

The developers of the National Children’s Hospital have submitted claims for additional costs worth some €12m since February.

Helen O’Callaghan talks to two leading doctors who are driven to find targeted therapies with minimum long-term toxicities to treat childhood cancer.

Teenager Aaron Gallagher has cystic fibrosis, and after six weeks in hospital, he is happy just to be back with his family for Christmas, says Áilín Quinlan

Remember the name – Irish animator Gary Gill is one to watch, thanks to his hit cartoon and new book, ‘The Day Henry Met’, writes Marie Toft.

Our Lady's Children's Hospital in Crumlin is to review all transcriptions of a cancer gene test after what it believes was a "transcription error" in one case.

Carrick on Suir Motor Club’s kindness and generosity shows little sign of abating.

A girl attending a creche affected by an E.coli outbreak had to undergo dialysis after a severe strain of the superbug caused kidney failure.

A nine-year-old girl who cannot walk or talk and who has a profoundly curved spine cannot get on a waiting list for spinal surgery until she undergoes an MRI, scheduled for April 2019.

Butterfly Skin is a beautiful name for a horrific disease that can lead to aggressive cancer. Even a hug can be painful.

Eighty-three Irish children have been sent to England in the past six years to be psychologically assessed for confusion over their gender identity.

He can remember hurtling down the hill on his cousin’s bike, moving at a nonsensical pace, the summer breeze buffeting his face. 

Mum of two Elaine-Sarah Comerford is one of a number of people with intestinal failure whose lives are at an increased risk because of a lack of specialist care.

The flu has claimed 92 lives over the winter so far. Most of those who died were aged 65 and over.

January was the worst month on record for hospital overcrowding, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) has said its figures show.

2,700 cyclists attended hospital with injuries received in road accidents in Ireland in 2015 and 2016. That’s nearly four a day, according to figures released by the HSE.

Baby Culann MacNeill of Knocknacarra in Co Galway had been born with DiGeorge syndrome, which results in poor development of several body systems.

A nurse said a doctor facing allegations of poor professional performance for his treatment of a child who had chicken pox told her he had seen blood-test results, but had failed to write these on a medical chart.

Almost half of the children on hospital trolleys yesterday were waiting more than nine hours for a bed, it has emerged.

Obese children have far less of the “natural killer” (NK) cells that play a crucial part in helping the body fight off diseases such as type 2 diabetes and certain cancers, a new study has found.

Serious maladministration, identified in public hospitals where patients are skipping the queue at the expense of other possibly urgent cases, must be tackled immediately, Social Democrats TD Róisín Shortall has urged.

Ireland’s long-awaited National Children’s Hospital has been named after the phoenix, and like the mythical firebird, it has risen from its difficult past.

"Now, more than ever, support is critical to ensure that sick children have the best care and treatments available."

There is no extra money to bail out the HSE despite its €100m overspend so far this year.

Colm Cooper’s first port of call when considering the offer of a testimonial evening in his honour was the GAA’s Director General, Páraic Duffy.

Hearing her daughter cry at night from some unidentified pain nearly broke Catherine Looney’s heart.

Children are waiting 18 months to see a cardiologist, it has emerged, writes Evelyn Ring.

Children are waiting 18 months to see a cardiologist, it has emerged.

It was “awful” that over 20,000 women did not get a foetal anomaly scan last year, a leading professor of obstetrics told a Dáil committee yesterday.

A girl who died 10 years after suffering injuries consistent with shaken baby syndrome fought "an amazing fight", according to her mother.

A decision on the cost- effectiveness of offering the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to boys is not expected until September next year, it has emerged.

Two Government ministers have backed plans for an imminent review of the religious patronage of more than a dozen hospitals across the country, after Health Minister Simon Harris publicly confirmed he is planning the move.

A new hi-tech 3D service in Cork to analyse the walking patterns of children with complex disabilities will help some avoid painful surgery, including having bones broken and re-set.

Here’s a sneak peek:

Ronald McDonald House provides ‘a sense of normal’ for families with children confined to hospital in Dublin, writes Deirdre Reynolds.

A woman whose grandmother and aunt died of ovarian cancer as a result of the faulty BRCA1 gene faces an 18-month wait for a test to determine if she has inherited the gene.

Surgery, scheduled for next week, has been cancelled for a schoolgirl whose crippling scoliosis condition forced Minister for Health Simon Harris to admit he was ashamed.