An estimated 3m medication errors are made in Irish hospitals per year, one mistake per hospital patient per day, according to the health watchdog.

AN AUSTRIAN scientist has managed to remove and freeze ovaries in sheep and successfully replace them, in a move he says could allow women to have children into their 60s and 70s.

President Thomas Klestil of Austria has died a day after being airlifted to hospital suffering heart failure, a spokeswoman for Vienna’s General Hospital said.