Families faces a €105 rise in health insurance each year, while adults will have to pay almost €40 more, as the country’s largest insurer has once again pushed up its prices.

A CAMPAIGN to raise awareness of male-specific cancers has been launched by VHI Healthcare in association with the Men’s Cancer Alliance.

Changes to VHI’s corporate structure will have no impact on customers or its policies or health cover, said Leo Varadkar, the health minister, yesterday.

Kya deLongchamps looks at the planning needed to keep those uncoordinated, but fearless, babies and toddlers safe wherever they might be this summer

Excess sugar and carbohydrates — not physical inactivity — are behind the surge in obesity, health experts have claimed.

Thousands of people could have diabetes and not even realise it, according to a study that reveals the extent of the problem.

The health insurance price war is expected to hot up over the coming weeks as providers fight to win younger insurers before new penalties apply for taking out cover for the first time.

Q. I am 24 weeks pregnant. I had a dose of the flu last year and I am worried about getting it again. Can I get the flu vaccine?

Vhi have announced a price cut on some of its health insurance plans.

Pre-tax profits at the country’s second largest health insurer, Laya Healthcare, last year increased by 5% to €5.25m.

Smart consumers can get “phenomenal” health insurance deals if they ask the right questions.

Male skin cancer diagnoses have surged by 21% in just five years, a major national awareness campaign has warned.

I’ve had a couple of episodes of lower back pain over the last year which lasted for a few weeks each time. 

Health insurer VHI made a 2013 profit after tax of €65m compared to a profit of €54.3m for the previous year.

* I am a woman in my late 30s and have donated blood over the last few years.

I recently had my cholesterol checked as part of the occupation health programme run at work. It was 6.5 but I hadn’t fasted before the test.

* I had a chest infection recently and visited my GP. He measured my blood pressure, it was 145/95.

Some families will have to pay up to €300 more for private health insurance as a result of VHI’s decision to increase a number of its corporate plans from next month.

BEING kept awake night-after -night, tending to a new infant, can be exhausting.

Thousands of Bord Gáis electricity customers are to be hit with a 2.2% price hike from March as its winter price freeze comes to an end.

Ireland’s second largest private health insurer, Laya healthcare, is to hike its charges by an average of 20%.

Older people will have to pay almost €300 more for health insurance after the county’s largest health insurer has yet again pushed up its prices.

Late entrants to the private health insurance market should be penalised, according to a report commissioned by the health minister.

Health chiefs are set to investigate claims by a senator that there was “a cover-up” by management at St Vincent’s Hospital over the fraudulent charging of health insurers for cancer drugs.

The Dail's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is to call in the board of St. Vincent's Hospital after claims of fraud by Senator John Crown.

There has been a 16% rise in the number of men treated for prostate cancer in the last five years.

VHI Healthcare said in the past five years, it has seen a 16% increase in the number of its customers being treated for prostate cancer.

Almost 210 private health insurance policies are being cancelled every day.

An ever increasing number of Irish emigrants, who take out special expatriate health insurance with VHI, made a record €6.6m in claims last year.

About 64,000 people gave up their private health insurance cover last year.

Health insurer VHI has confirmed an average increase of 6% in its premiums from next month.

As private health insurers ring in the new year with a series of premium hikes, customers can expect further hardship in 2013 under government plans to charge insurers for private patients who use public hospital beds.

Don’t let your child eat spicy food, acidic drinks and very salty foods if he suffers from mouth ulcers and avoid giving him hard food like toast and crackers.

The younger your kids drink the more likely they are to suffer alcohol-related problems later in their lives, a new study reveals. Arlene Harris reports.

The VHI struck a six-figure deal with a private consultancy firm so it could benefit from the advice of its former chief executive who resigned from his post last year.

The Health Minister Doctor James Reilly has welcomed the European Commission's ruling that the Government must abolish its State guarantee to the VHI.

All cancer patients will be able to access vital, long-delayed treatment at a leading hospital after private health insurance holders were initially told their treatment would be blocked.

Vhi Healthcare have announced the appointment of Mr John O'Dwyer as Chief Executive of the company.

There are “very significant gaps” in the private hospital provision of cancer, cardiac, and orthopaedic services across the southern region.

WE’VE waited all year for summer to come and want to make the most of it. But what about our children and their sensitive skin which needs particular care when the sun shines or even when the skies are clouded over?

THE main role of the contraceptive pill is to prevent unwanted pregnancy but it has also been known to have other side effects.

Vhi Healthcare has recorded a surplus after tax of €7.4m for the 12 months to end December 2011, the company said today.

HARD figures on the amount of tax relief that goes unclaimed every year are not easy to find.

Health Minister Dr James Reilly has said that private health insurers should be reducing the cost of their premia, not hiking them.