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# Healthcare

Last week
2nd February 2025 - 8th February 2025
Doctor: To achieve universal healthcare, political leadership is needed
Domhnall McGlacken-Byrne
Last month
January 2025
HSE notifies public to stop using four types of vape as EU-wide safety warning issued
Dept of Health has spent €47 million on consultants on delayed National Maternity Hospital
Opinion: Let’s change the game for people living with HIV
Enda McGrattan (Veda Lady)
Your Stories: Have you had to travel abroad to access abortion services?
Delay in rollout of free HRT scheme criticised as 'slap in the face for thousands of women'
Last year
2024
Opinion: We should try to reduce the harm caused by Christmas excess as much as possible
Michael Ledden & Kathryn Ledden
Sudan's doctors bear brunt of war as healthcare falls apart
RSV cases in infants have dropped massively since vaccine programme started in September
Opinion: How the new Irish Government can end HIV transmission by 2030
Stephen O'Hare
Brain injury: Rehab is crucial, but survivors are often forgotten and just left to exist
Dr Karen Foley
Healthcare workers vote overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action amid 'staffing crisis'
Health and the election: 'Our hospital system is faltering and we can't ignore it any longer'
Professor Rónán Collins
COPD: 'I didn't understand why this was happening - I was active, healthy and never smoked'
Denise Croke
If RFK Jr leads Trump's health team, trust in vaccines could be 'undermined' globally
80,000 workers needed to address 'significant' shortfalls in four key areas of infrastructure
Free prescription medicines and 40,000 extra healthcare staff included in Sinn Féin’s healthcare plan
Lynn Ruane: It's time to change our approach to drug use and addiction
Lynn Ruane
Opinion: 'Neuroimaging has shown that psychedelics can increase connectivity in the brain'
Dr Colm Harrington
Safe access zones around abortion providers come into effect from today
Urgent appeal for extra 2,000 blood donations over next four weeks as supply drops
My health story: 'They told me I had a brain tumour – I was absolutely terrified'
Pamela Tully
Four in five pregnant women in Ireland are iron deficient by third trimester, new study finds
Lessons from Ireland: How Colombia can rethink its response to drug use
Tony Duffin & Ana María Restrepo
Free RSV immunisation for newborns to be rolled out next week
Over 5,000 people died or were pronounced dead on arrival in EDs over the last five years
Health watchdog to examine lowering age threshold for BreastCheck screening to women in their 40s
Mater hospital defers 'small number' of surgeries due to IT issues
Miriam Donohoe: The Irish have very strong ties with Uganda - even hurling is big here
Miriam Donohoe
Patient care: Hospital staff did their best for my father but the resources aren't there
Nick McGinley
Bereaved families 'extremely concerned' about scope of HSE probe into baby and mother deaths
HSE chief says recruitment freeze to end tomorrow
Miriam Donohoe: How Ireland has helped transform lives in Karamoja, Uganda’s poorest region
Miriam Donohoe
Conversion therapy in Ireland renounced by healthcare bodies with signing of memorandum today
Hospitalisations and deaths linked to hot weather are set to increase due to climate change
Nearly half a million people waiting longer for medical appointments than Sláintecare targets
UCD professor Mary Horgan named interim Chief Medical Officer following departure of Breda Smyth
Author: 'Finding out I was going to be one of the people to lose sight was a huge shock'
Ann Ingle
Opinion: Ireland needs helicopter emergency medicine - it’s the difference between life and death
Dr Brian Burns
Opinion: On the Repeal anniversary, remember the right to abortion is being eroded globally
Orla O'Connor