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Politicians shun doctors meeting over new alcohol sale restriction measures

Junior health minister Marcella Corcoran Kennedy was left redfaced last night as Fine Gael senators and TDs initially shunned a meeting with some of the country’s top doctors over new alcohol sale restriction measures.

Thu, 24 Nov, 2016

Number of young adults with alcoholic liver disease quadruples

THE number of young adults who have developed alcoholic liver disease has almost quadrupled in just 14 years, new research has found.

Thu, 24 Nov, 2011

Painkiller caused fatal liver failure

THE family of an elderly widow who died of liver failure caused by a recently banned painkiller backed calls yesterday for improved reporting of the dangerous side-effects of drugs to the country’s medicines watchdog.

Fri, 01 Jun, 2007

Arthritis drug caused liver failure, inquest hears

A COMMON drug used in Ireland to ease arthritis pain was linked yesterday to acute liver failure in an elderly widow who died last year.

Fri, 04 May, 2007