Early episodes of Doctor Who which were believed to have been lost have been returned to the BBC, the corporation has said.

A hospital consultant has said the shifts that trainee doctors are forced to work are inappropriate.

David Tennant was worried he wouldn't get asked to appear in the 'Doctor Who' 50th anniversary episode.

'Doctor Who' star Matt Smith says he could play the Time Lord "forever".

Health Minister Dr James Reilly has been told that he needs to make a decision on where build the new National Children's Hospital.

Tallaght hospital is more suitable to house the new national children's hospital now than it was when first considered years ago, according to a former Vice Chairman of the Board of the hospital.

David Tennant has tied the knot with Georgia Moffett.

The number of cases of cancer diagnosed in Ireland each year has risen by more than 50% since the mid 1990s, largely due to the ageing profile of the population.

The Archbishop of Dublin Doctor Diarmuid Martin is admitting that there may be still an ongoing risk to children in Ireland from child sex abusers.

TADRIAN Maguire’s Mr Warbucks made a fine start over fences when easily beating Whatuthink in the Thurles Beginners Chase yesterday.

Connections of promising juvenile Party Doctor are waiting for easier ground before trying to lose the colt’s maiden tag.

Brad Pitt is to star in ‘Sherlock Holmes 2’.

PERSIAN CITY was introduced at 40/1 by Cashmans for the Ballymore Properties Novices’ Hurdle at Cheltenham following his smooth success in the INH Stallion Owners’ EBF Novice Hurdle at Limerick yesterday.

Paul Nicholls plundered his second big prize at Doncaster in as many weeks when I’msingingtheblues landed the williamhill.com Handicap Chase.

Doctor Fremantle fared best of the foreign raiders in the Juddmonte Grand Prix de Paris at Longchamp this evening but was no match for an ultra-impressive winner in Montmartre.

The first six home in the Epsom Derby could all lock horns once again in the Dubai Duty Free-sponsored Irish version at the Curragh on Sunday.

DOCTOR Tomoaki Kato had to remove a lot more than a cancerous tumour during an unprecedented operation on a 63-year-old Florida woman.

A DOCTOR whose name was removed from the British medical register last year can continue to work in Ireland provided he does not work in any independent capacity.

It is a long way from Middleham to Brighton but Captain Webb appeared none the worse for the journey on a bright autumn afternoon on the South Coast.

It has emerged that the Gardaí told the Midland Health Board about allegations of sexual assault involving a department head at Athlone Institute of Technology as far back as June 2004.

DOCTOR Seamus O’Hickey of the Irish Expert Body on Fluorides and Health (Letters, April 13) criticised my letter (April 11) on the serious adverse effects of water fluoridation on people’s health.

Gardaí have spoken to the mother of a Kilkenny school girl who was found dead in her home in November.

Sylvester Kirk’s stable star Elhamri heads the list of 40 juveniles confirmed at the five-day stage for Saturday’s totepool Two-Year-Old Trophy at Redcar.

DOCTOR James Binchy of the Irish Association for Emergency Medicine claims says that “treatment for serious conditions was being delayed as a result of patients having to be transferred from the (new VHI) clinics to hospital A&E departments” (Irish Examiner, June 23).

A DOCTOR who has used unlicensed stem cell therapy to treat multiple sclerosis sufferers has claimed he has had to turn hundreds of patients away because of new EU regulations.

SOME 200,000 bird flu vaccines being stored by the Department of Health could be useless by the time a human pandemic of the virus hits, according to a leading health expert.

Christopher Eccleston sent avid Doctor Who fans sprinting to the shops in search of his trademark leather jacket, but the 10th Doctor Who will have a very different wardrobe.

President Mary McAleese and Taoiseach Bertie Ahern joined hundreds of people today at a service for Irish soldiers who died in war or on peacekeeping duty with the United Nations.

DOCTOR Elizabeth Cullen of the Irish Doctors’ Environmental Association writes again (letters, April 1) about the physiological changes she says are caused by mobile phone systems, and how we need to protect our health from the supposed mobile menace.

US forces launched airstrikes against suspected militant bases in Fallujah and carried out probing attacks on the city’s outskirts, as they prepared for a major operation in the insurgent bastion that has become the symbol of Iraqi resistance.

Doctor Who, whose screen exploits prompted a generation to hide behind their sofas in terror every Saturday, has been named the greatest science fiction character of all time.

DOCTOR John Kelleher and his 129 junior doctor colleagues at Waterford Regional Hospital are losing a minimum 100 in pay for every day they are on the picket line.

DOCTOR John Kelleher took home 3,000 euro last month.

Four farms in Co Meath are under Department of Agriculture restriction tonight because of the foot and mouth scare.