The Health Minister James Reilly has said he is ruling out an inquiry into the case of Surgeon Michael Shine for legal reasons.

FORMER South African president Nelson Mandela went home from hospital yesterday after suffering an acute respiratory infection.

RECENTLY I received details of the latest cost-saving measure in the last budget – the restriction of dental services for adult medical card-holders to a service for relief of pain and infection.

A SURGEON, who has agreed to be censured by the Medical Council for failing to provide a medical report for a teenage road traffic victim, said his patients were his primary concern, not the interests of the legal profession.

A SURGEON has warned scuba divers against using heat packs on deep dives after treating a man who received severe burns in a freak accident off the Cork coast last year.