DECISIVE new guidelines have been issued to doctors and nurses on the care of patients receiving fertility treatment following an inquiry into the death of a young woman after a reaction to IVF treatment.

COME ON, as Hillary would say, let’s get real here. Nobody was surprised the Taoiseach knew that word and could use it.

MEDICAL card patients will get their prescriptions filled even if pharmacies withdraw from the payments scheme when new cost-cutting measures are introduced tomorrow, Health Minister Mary Harney insisted yesterday.

The group representing the interest of Irish patients has warned that the possibility of another Michael Neary type scandal occurring in the health care system remains.

A disgraced obstetrician who needlessly removed the wombs of expectant mothers performed unnecessary surgery on 39 more women, it emerged today.

THE group representing former patients of disgraced obstetrician Dr Michael Neary has requested an extension of the government’s redress scheme to all women on whom he performed unwarranted medical procedures.

The Minister for Health Mary Harney will face a 'no confidence' vote over the crisis in cancer services as a fifth inquiry into failings in patient care began tonight.

WOMEN who underwent an operation in which their pelvis was broken after childbirth are considering taking the Government to court because it has failed to fulfil promises it made to them over five months ago.

A MAN who subjected a 13-month-old baby girl to a five month ordeal of physical abuse was yesterday jailed for life with a recommendation he serve a minimum of 13 years.

The Fine Gael Party Leader Enda Kenny TD announced today details of the party's candidates for the Senate elections.