DOCTORS, nurses and aid workers left Dublin airport yesterday on an Aer Lingus plane loaded with 27 tonnes of supplies and medicine and bound for earthquake-stricken Haiti.

DOCTORS should undertake communication refresher courses and be able to access industry standard guidebooks to appropriate language when dealing with the ill, a patients’ group said yesterday.

A DOCTOR was yesterday cleared of two charges of serious professional misconduct in the first medical council fitness to practice case heard in public.

The medical profession has expressed concern about a lack of public health inspections at gyms and health clubs throughout Ireland.

People over the age of 65 are being advised to get vaccinated against pneumonia this autumn.