Build4Life raised millions with the aim of opening an adult in-patient ward at CUH for CF patients. Legal issues and disagreements have left it in limbo, reports Catherine Shanahan.

A study aimed at tailoring cystic fibrosis (CF) treatment to each patient’s particular infection at any one time will begin in Ireland and internationally in the coming years.

Even in hurling, multi-skilled sport and all that it is, every team still needs a bruiser or two, a big banger who can take and give the knocks in the rough-and-tumble of the all-important possession battles around the half-forward and half-back war zones.

IT’S a story familiar to our health system: a reliance on the goodwill of others to help provide an essential service. In this case, a new unit for adults with cystic fibrosis.

THE Medical and Scientific Council of the Cystic Fibrosis Association of Ireland is made up of healthcare professionals and scientists who look after children and adults with cystic fibrosis in the Republic.

WORKERS at one of the country’s biggest smoke-free hospitals are under fire for smoking in nearby residential estates.

THE HSE must fast-track the development of a specialist cystic fibrosis (CF) unit at Cork University Hospital (CUH) to care for patients in Munster with the disease.

THE number of adult cystic fibrosis patients treated at Cork University Hospital is set to be double the official guidelines within 18 months, it has emerged.