Women paying privately for cervical smear tests are receiving their results within two to three weeks from the same laboratory that is taking up to seven months to get results back to public patients
The government’s health reform team asked to be moved out of the Department of Health, due to c...
Irish patients have access to fewer new medicines than those in other EU countries – and they wait longer to get them
The HSE’s interim chief Anne O’Connor is among those shortlisted for the director general job...
Two years after it was conceived as an idea, we have an action plan for reform of the health system. Many critics say this is too little too late, with suspiciously little detail on where the funding is to come from for the ten-year plan
‘Shocking’ figures show little progress made in planned Sláintecare reform programme
A spokesperson for junior education minister Mary Mitchell O’Connor said 'no decision had been made' as to whether the positions would be open to transgender applicants
With skincare brands making ever more ‘scientific’ claims about the anti-ageing benefits of their products, where does the truth lie? Susan Mitchell investigates
HSE says Spinraza drug for SMA sufferers would cost €38 million over five years, as pharma giant clocks up global annual sales of $1.72 billion
Doctors will be forced to prescribe cheaper drugs under plans being drawn up by the medicines reg...
In all the noise surrounding the Children’s Hospital fiasco, a multitude of other broken promises have been swept under the carpet
Under the proposal, which was made to finance minister Paschal Donohoe, Blackrock Medical said it was interested in purchasing the property and buildings. It said the HSE could then enter into a lease for a 25-50 year term
Professor Michael Barry, who heads up the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics (NCPE), was speaking after the HSE informed Biogen, manufacturer of Spinraza, it would not fund the drug
Doctors say consumers are risking ‘life-altering’ consequences by opting for cheap fillers and are increasingly turning up in hospital emergency departments
The former clinical director of CervicalCheck advised against offering women a free out-of-cycle ...
