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Medicine

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Hospital consultant: 'Everyone in medicine dreads the Friday night on call for the same reason'

Professor Rónán Collins

23 Feb

34.1k

Our Lady of Lourdes

Patient care: Hospital staff did their best for my father but the resources aren't there

Nick McGinley

22 Jul 2024

12.5k

emergency medicine

Opinion: Ireland needs helicopter emergency medicine - it’s the difference between life and death

Dr Brian Burns

26 May 2024

22.4k

Medicine

Some Irish doctors left with 'suicidal thoughts' over 'drawn out' clinical negligence cases

31 Jan 2024

9.3k

measles outbreaks

Dr Catherine Conlon: Catch Up vaccination clinics needed now before measles sweeps the country

Dr Catherine Conlon

29 Jan 2024

10.8k

emergency medicine

Dr Chris Luke: Knives are lethal weapons - we must not sleepwalk into a rise in their use

Dr Chris Luke

25 Jun 2023

9.0k

Medicine

Medicine shortages: Dept Health says 'numerous alternatives available to ensure continuity of care'

19 Jun 2023

12.2k

Medicine

Almost 1 million doses of illegal and counterfeit medicine seized by HPRA in 2022

29 Mar 2023

9.4k

winter surge

Over 200 medicines unavailable in Ireland, including cough syrups and soluble painkillers

9 Jan 2023

28.7k

FactCheck

FactFind: How much does it cost the State to train a doctor in Ireland?

22 Oct 2022

31.3k

Fees

Minister 'disappointed' by BOI decision to end graduate medical student loan

30 Apr 2022

28.2k

booster rollout

GP: When a super-spreadable virus meets a super-spreader event like Christmas we need to pause

Dr Maitiu Ó Faoláin

Updated 16 Dec 2021

36.6k

averted deaths

Covid vaccines have saved 9,000 lives in Ireland among 60+ age group, study estimates

2 Dec 2021

15.2k

Medicine

Opinion: Coping with Long Covid - how exercise and other treatments can help

Dr Jennifer Dineen

9 Sep 2021

18.1k

World Cancer DAy

Consultant oncologist: 'I've seen more advanced cancer cases presenting since Covid hit last year'

Dr Greg Korpanty

4 Feb 2021

35.2k

BALANCING ACT

Final year medicine studies and Leinster career keeping Murphy busy

27 Jan 2021

11.7k

new career

The former Munster centre now helping to fight Covid-19 as a doctor in Cork

9 Apr 2020

24.2k

HIV

'A significant gamechanger': PrEP programme to reduce HIV rates being rolled out from today

4 Nov 2019

10.0k

doctor doctor

A record 1,450 doctors voluntarily withdrew from the Medical Council of Ireland last year

2 Oct 2019

49.5k

Medical Council

Irish doctors urged to stop over-prescribing benzodiazepines and similar drugs

19 Sep 2019

27.7k

Medicine

Mahrez missed Man City's Community Shield win due to doping control worries

4 Aug 2019

18.1k

Medication

Benzodiazepine use in Irish over 65s is higher than international average

8 Jul 2019

31.9k

Health

Clinical trials involving Irish patients 'saved the health service €13m' over two years

20 May 2019

9.1k

Opinion

Opinion: Cancer screening can't provide 100% certainty - but the programme saves many lives

Dr Ciarán Ó Riain

11 May 2019

10.2k

Racing

We've found the cure in feature race, it's Medicine

30 Mar 2019

2.6k

Opinion

Dr Anthony O'Connor: 'I remember the detail of my errors and the guilt and shame I felt are burnt onto my mind'

Dr Anthony O'Connor

8 Dec 2018

39.1k

painkillers

'Any time there is medication involved everyone needs to be very, very cautious'

7 Dec 2018

19.3k

Opinion

Opinion: HIV positive women face a unique set of challenges

Denise Proudfoot

1 Dec 2018

25.3k

Medicine

Explainer: Is Ireland in danger of a medicines shortage because of Brexit?

31 Jul 2018

14.1k

Doctor

Dr Dora Gorman: Ireland's football, hockey and GAA star who just graduated medicine at UCD

24 Jun 2018

34.4k

Revenue

Alcohol, tobacco and medicine seized at Dublin Port

15 Jun 2018

10.5k

longterm illness

Government looking at how to best source 'quality' medical cannabis for new access programme

22 May 2018

16.9k

Irish Patients Association

Breakdown: Average number of public patients per GPs across the country

22 Apr 2018

23.5k

Harry Styles

People are absolutely convinced that Harry Styles' new track is his 'bisexual anthem'

15 Mar 2018

16.8k

blood clotting

'I could never work again after I got sick, that really affected me'

10 Mar 2018

19.1k

Breakthrough

New blood test to detect Alzheimer's disease developed by Irish researchers

7 Mar 2018

15.2k

Climate Change

The Paris Climate Agreement is REALLY expensive... but it could end up saving us money

3 Mar 2018

15.7k

beast from the east

Pharmacists urge people to ensure they have 'supply of essential medicines' before storm hits

27 Feb 2018

11.9k

Journey

'I had to look after this puppy when I could barely look after myself'

18 Feb 2018

21.0k

UCD

Medicine students forced to resit exam after initial Christmas paper revealed to be 'compromised'

3 Feb 2018

27.0k

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