A CONFERENCE in Rome yesterday observed, via satellite link, a revolutionary hip replacement operation at Mayo General Hospital.

THE opening of a €10.5 million, orthopaedic unit in Castlebar due to employ 78 people has been cancelled by the Western Health Board just three weeks before it was scheduled to open.

A YEAR-LONG trial of US-style stun guns was launched in Britain yesterday with senior police officers insisting that there was no direct evidence they can cause death.