Cystic Fibrosis Ireland expresses concern about younger patients who are at very high risk from the coronavirus but still have not received their jab

Peter Boylan, a former master of the National Maternity Hospital, says hyperemesis gravidarum is a severe condition and it‘s reasonable to expect the drugs payment scheme to reimburse sufferers

HSE says failure to record cohort of vaccine recipient may be due to poor record keeping or a technical issue

The charity, which supports people with mental health problems and learning difficulties, is open to recruiting from hospitality sector as training will be provided

Legal action has been threatened after the HSE said certain beds made available to cater for Covid-19 patients would not be paid for

The news that recent stillbirths are associated with Covid-19 placentitis has reignited the debate on why mums-to-be are at the bottom of the vaccination priority list

Speedy tests for virus could be used alongside the state’s PCR testing programme as country aims for safer eventual reopening

There are still some clouds on the horizon with the threat of new variants, but there is also hope as health workers report real benefits from the rollout of the Covid-19 vaccines

Geriatric specialists say vaccination has reduced the risk hugely, and that leaving the elderly to die alone in homes is ‘inhumane’

Conditions in the Wuhan market may have been an ‘early amplifier’ of the Covid-19 virus. Habitat destruction, the intensification of agriculture, global travel and climate change will be among the main factors in the emergence of even more deadly diseases, experts warn, as ‘we push nature to its limit’

While the vaccine rollout should reduce the number of new Covid-19 cases, the increased transmissibility of the new variant mean progress in suppressing the virus has slowed

HSE considers ending surge capacity arrangements with private hospitals as number of Covid-19 hospitalisations falls

Frustrated doctors snub HSE jobs as talks over the long-promised consultant contract stall

The National Service Plan shows that €200m of the €1.6bn allocated to fighting the pandemic is to be spent on the rollout of vaccinations

Facility will help to establish which vaccines work best for which age groups and if some are more protective than others

Rate of new developments is significantly off the pace required to serve the country’s growing elderly population, property industry experts warn

Almost a year into the pandemic, nations across the EU are still struggling to decide on strategy and jump-start a sluggish vaccine roll-out while the US finally gets its act together

The Covid-19 crisis has laid bare the many shortcomings in our health service, but it’s those at the coalface who understand best what is needed to fix it

Companies must open up their intellectual property rights to enable others to produce vaccines, an Oireachtas committee has been told