Prison officers who have to deal with the death of an inmate often experience a “ripple effect” in their personal lives, and many would like to the see the Irish Prison Service employ dedicated peer support officers.

Just over one third of heart attack patients experience what doctors describe as the ‘Hollywood heart attack’ — breaking into a cold sweat, grimacing and falling to the ground, it has emerged.

THE number of late diagnoses of developmentally displaced hips in young children is on the increase and a shortage of community health doctors is partly to blame.

BOUNCED cheques and emergency tax rates are among the difficulties faced by former staff of a private hospital in Cork city which closed just five months after it opened.

Nearly all mental health patients have been treated unfairly because of their condition, a survey revealed today.

THE challenges of breast-feeding and the type of back-up available is the subject of a nationwide survey which will help inform how breast-feeding support services can be improved.

Twenty-four-hour drinking in Northern Ireland pubs could be introduced within two years it was revealed today – as an addiction expert warned of round-the-clock binge dangers.

Two professors were shot today at the University of Arizona’s School of Nursing in Tucson.

The world’s first ever specially trained nurses with a postgraduate degree in disaster relief nursing graduated today from the University of Ulster.