Roll-your-own tobacco products could be banned

Industry figures call on Government to reject proposals to ban menthol and roll-your-own products

Minister blames ’extraordinary winter’ and extended flu season for ’rebound’

Elective Caesarean sections are far more common among pregnant women who attend private consultants than among mothers delivering in the public health system

Study says C-section rate 74 per cent higher among women attending private consultant

The direct and indirect cost of overweight and obesity in the Republic was an estimated €1.16 billion

Overweight and obesity costing €1.1 bn in extra health costs, lost days and early death

 Solicitor Caroline Simons arriving at the Oireachtas Health Committee hearings, at Leinster House, Dublin. Photograph: Eric Luke

Analysis: Central difficulty relates to suicide clause and absence of gestational limits as lawyers aired wide disagreements at th(...)

Prof Kevin Malone of UCD at the launch of his report Suicide in Ireland 2003-2008 yesterday. Photograph: Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland

Prof Kevin Malone warns of sending wrong signal to vulnerable young men

Prof Kevin Malone, School of Medicine & Medical Science at UCD. Photographer: Dara Mac Dónaill

Analysis: There was little agreement among witnesses

 Master of the National Maternity Hospital Dr Rhona Mahony  in the neoneathal ICU department of Holles Street. Photograph: Cyril Byrne

It wasn’t long before sparks started to fly as tempers frayed

 Dr Sam Coulter Smyth: the master of the Rotunda Hospital said the inclusion in legislation of suicidal intent as grounds for a termination  posed major ethical dilemmas for obstetricians. Photograph: Eric Luke

Master of Rotunda Hospital says inclusion in legislation of suicidal intent as grounds for a termination not evidence-based

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