Minister Josepha Madigan has come under fire after her constituents received a letter confirming that a methadone clinic will not be located in their area.

It’s International Men’s Health Week and greater awareness is needed about our vital organ, says Geraldine Walsh.

Almost one in four Irish women have experienced an unplanned or crisis pregnancy, according to new research.

A 64-year-old woman has given birth to healthy twins following her second successful pregnancy at an advanced age, a doctor in northern Spain said.

A new project to develop personalised heart treatments is being launched today, to coincide with European Heart Failure Awareness Day.

Arsene Wenger was adamant he had no need to reproach himself after shoving Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho in yesterday’s 2-0 loss at Stamford Bridge.

People who smoke 20 cigarettes a day are racking up bills of more than €200,000 over the course of their life, while “social smokers” are tripling the risk of heart failure without even realising it.

A project designed to promote safer use of a potentially deadly medication has won a quality award.

Ireland’s abortion laws are being challenged in a landmark European court hearing today which could overturn the Republic’s sovereign right to protect unconditionally “the life of the unborn”.

Ireland’s abortion laws are being challenged in a landmark European court hearing which could overturn the Republic’s sovereign right to protect unconditionally “the life of the unborn”.

PLANNING permission was granted yesterday for a co-located private hospital on the grounds of the Mid-West Regional Hospital in Limerick.

THE Irish Heart Foundation has dismissed as “ludicrous” a plan by one of Britain’s leading medical experts to give everyone over the age of 55 drugs to lower their blood pressure.

International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge has conceded some Olympic endurance events could be affected by pollution in Beijing.

GETTING down and dirty in the garden is an excellent form of exercise, a doctor has claimed.

THE number of malaria cases in Ireland has doubled in the past year, as a new survey shows that most travellers are not concerned about the risk of the disease.

The hospital caring for Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon said early today that there was no change in his condition overnight, and doctors planned to bring him out of a medically induced coma.