The new national children’s hospital is unlikely to be ready until 2019 “at the earliest”, according to sources involved in planning the projec(...)

Minister for Health James Reilly has announced the re-organisation of Irish hospitals into six largely autonomous groups aimed at providing imp(...)

Registration and inspection of residential centres for children and adults with disabilities are is to begin later this year for the first time(...)

Minister for Health James Reilly will today announce what he claims is the most fundamental reform of Irish hospitals in decades after Cabinet (...)

Responding to the 2009 swine flu pandemic cost the State over €70 million in anti-virals, vaccines and specialist equipment, according to a new (...)

More than 115,000 prescriptions for Viagra were filled in 2011, according to new figures from the Department of Health. The cost of pres(...)

Sunbed parlours which allow under 18-year-olds to use their machines face substantial penalties under legislation being(...)

Doctors, dentists and other self-employed health professionals are awaiting with trepidation an imminent decision by the Department of Health o(...)

The Irish Medicines Board says it has “no immediate issues” with a number of leading new blood thinners which have been the su(...)

Irish obstetricians deliver more than twice as many babies as their counterparts in Britain and Northern Ireland, figur(...)