The Health Service Executive (HSE) is urging anyone recovering from colds or 'flu to give themselves plenty of time to recover.

THE first death has been reported from the drug-resistant superbug originating in South Asia.

PEOPLE travelling to countries like Pakistan and India are bringing back with them a new superbug that is resistant to almost all antibiotics.

A PATIENTS’ advocacy group has called for new guidelines on the prevention and control of the potentially fatal superbug Clostridium difficile (C diff) to be made mandatory.

ASSISTED human reproduction (AHR) laws must be flexible enough to make allowances for scientific advances and changes in what societies deem acceptable, an Irish fertility expert warned yesterday.