Mothers who lose a child to suicide are at risk of suicide themselves and should be offered specialised support.

Thousands of Irish children as young as 11 are suffering mental health problems that without proper help could lead to life-long illness, research shows.

Almost one third of employers say staff are coming to work sick even though it is having a negative impact on productivity and morale in the workplace.

A LEADING medic has resigned his fellowship of the country’s largest postgraduate medical institution in protest at its failure to condemn the detention and torture of nurses and doctors in Bahrain.

A PRIMARY school forced to defer re-opening because of a TB outbreak will be expected to make up lost days during the remainder of the school year.

AN IRISH pioneer in cancer research has been elected head of a prestigious European medical association.

A LEADING poet, a distinguished High Court judge, a pioneering cancer specialist and the head of a global construction giant will be honoured by their former college today.

WORK is due to start early next year on a €10.5 million expansion of the emergency department at Waterford Regional Hospital.

EXPECTANT mothers can half the chances of undergoing an emergency Caesarean if problems with a baby are first spotted by ultrasound scans during pregnancy.

DOCTORS are to be trained in the mid-west for the first time at University of Limerick.

ANY doubts about the two-tier quality of the Irish health service are swiftly dispelled by today’s analysis of the highly revealing Irish Examiner/Lansdowne Market Research survey of maternity services in the Republic.

MORE than eight-in-10 drug users who are on methadone to wean them off heroin continue to use cannabis, and some also use cocaine regularly, according to new research.

THE body count will continue to rise in Monaghan, community activists claimed last night, because the local hospital must continue to function without emergency surgery.

THE lifespan of breast cancer patients could be extended by almost a third thanks to a breakthrough in research by Irish scientists.

CAVAN General Hospital remained on call for emergency surgery last night despite the suspension of two of its three consultant surgeons.

BISHOP Eamonn Casey’s former parishioners in the Diocese of Galway would welcome him back, according to a new survey.

RAPE prosecutions have collapsed because inexperienced and ill-trained GPs are being drafted in to carry out specialist forensic examinations, the Mid-Western Health Board claims.