Patients waiting for potentially life-saving gastric band surgery look set to have it done in Britain under a HSE scheme for treatment abroad.

THE heartbroken wife of a man who suffered complications following an operation had to break the devastating news to her “compos mentis” husband that his life-support equipment was going to be switched off.

NEWS that pancreatic cancer treatment services will remain in Cork and not be centralised to Dublin has come as a relief to sufferers living in Munster.

A 26-year-old man whose stomach was unnecessarily removed after he was wrongly diagnosed with cancer broke down as he told the High Court today of his shock after finding out that there had been a mistake in the diagnosis.