The association representing the bulk of the country’s GPs is holding an extraordinary general meeting tomorrow against a backdrop of no engagement with the Department of Health on how it plans to roll out a doctor-led abortion service.

Tireless humanitarian and Chernobyl charity founder, Adi Roche, has received the highest honour from Royal College of Physicians of Ireland in Dublin.

Some TDs are the puppets of the publicans, according to the Transport Minister Shane Ross.

The late tycoon Edward Haughey was a keen collector with deep pockets, writes Des O’Sullivan.

A national obesity treatment strategy could save the State at least €56m over a decade, medical experts believe.

Healthcare in Ireland faces an “apocalyptic scenario” if radical steps are not taken to change it, says cancer expert Dr Tom Keane.

Tackling the pricing on alcohol is a priority to ease ‘urgent crisis’ here, says top medic.

UCC's Dean of Medicine Professor Mary Horgan has been elected as the first female president elect of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland.

In the wake of a National Archives of Ireland survey Dr Ciara Breathnach and Dr Laurence M. Geary call on Minister Simon Harris to legislate for our now vulnerable medical heritage.

Health experts have urged the Government to introduce long-promised minimum pricing laws in a bid to break our love affair with alcohol.

Health Minister Leo Varadkar said yesterday it was a “great regret and a great tragedy for the country” that the planned building of the new national children’s hospital took so long.

It may seem counterintuitive for an eminent health body to be seen to advocate the use of e-cigarettes.

A pair of incredibly rare Kinsale silver trefid spoons which Weldons will bring to the National Antiques and Vintage Fair in Limerick.

Hundreds of families are waiting more than a year to access genetic services in Ireland, it has emerged.

Des O’Sullivan looks at 20th century Irish art at de Vere’s auction.

Around one in eight admissions to an emergency department resulted in an “adverse reaction”, with 70% of events preventable, research reveals.

A rejected Fianna Fáil candidate has become the latest addition to the diverse grouping of the Independent Alliance (IA).

The cost of spirits, cans of beer, and bottles of wine will increase under health measures designed to reduce binge drinking and the harmful effects of alcohol.

An east Cork woman who successfully led a 77-day expedition to rescue 100 gold- miners trapped in freezing conditions in British Columbia in the 1800s is being honoured in her home town, writes Christy Parker.

2016 is set to be another landmark year in the history of the GAA, after it was confirmed yesterday that blood testing would be carried out in the association for the very first time.

Fianna Fáil has claimed it will not rely on a range of tax hikes to reform the health service if it gains power after the next general election, saying a €320m hole in its annual investment plans will be funded by taking money from other government areas.

More than 200 Indian doctors working in the Irish health service continue to be ineligible for career-essential training posts despite treating patients on a daily basis, an anomaly repeatedly condemned by the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO).

Alcohol companies have no role to play in tackling Ireland’s drink problem.

On the night of her election as Labour leader on July 4 last year, Joan Burton told party members — bruised as they were by the local election results — that it was time now to govern with the head and the heart.

LET’S raise a glass to the new Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015 which is essentially designed to protect us from ourselves when it comes to our love affair with booze, writes Alison O’Connor.

The new laws setting out a minimum price for alcohol have been broadly welcomed both by campaigners and drinks industry groups.

Cash-strapped patients could face yet more health insurance price hikes in the coming weeks, despite fresh Government attempts to force down market costs.

The unforeseen health problems for long-term HIV sufferers due to their anti-retro viral drugs are to be examined as part of a €13.5m medical research funding drive.

Ireland’s water has been fluoridated for 50 years. That’s time enough for improvements in oral health and to show there have been no documented medical side effects.

Our diet has expanded since the 1950s, to include exotic dishes and ingredients, but so have our waistlines, says Helen O’Callaghan

Some of the country’s top medics have called on the Government to ban the advertisement of sugar-sweetened drinks to children.

E-cigarettes should be banned in public places because they “normalise” smoking, a leading medic has said.

Children with potentially fatal food allergies are forced to wait up to three years to be tested because hospital screening services cannot cope with demand.

Boys may be included in the schools vaccination programme against the human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, it emerged yesterday.

A hospital consultant has likened e-cigarettes to heroin substitute methadone as he revealed two children have presented at an emergency department having been poisoned by liquid nicotine.

A life has been saved every day since the workplace smoking ban was introduced a decade ago, according to figures released to mark its anniversary.