Alex White and Minister for Health James Reilly. “In spite of soothing noises from Minister of State Alex White, the fact is that nothing has been done after two-and-a-half years.” Photographer: Dara Mac Donaill

Suffering the pain of so-called austerity is bad. Listening to luxuriously upholstered State pensioners like John Bruton tell us that it’s all (...)

RONAN McGREEVY The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) has said that the Gut(...)

Under fire: two Irish cardiologists have criticised the film made by George Lee (above)

George Lee’s recent RTÉ documentary on heart disease has been criticised by two Irish cardiologists who contributed to the programme. Bro(...)

Switching to low-fat milk to curb your toddler’s weight gain doesn’t seem to work, according to a new (...)

Patricia Dunne’s three children often suggest now that they all walk to granny’s house and leave the car at home. It might sound like a small t(...)

Sinéad Hamill at her home in Stillorgan. Photograph: Cyril Byrne

I was a fit and healthy child and teenager, playing volleyball, basketball and tennis in school and riding horses until I was pregnant with my (...)

Newborn babies at the Neonatal Unit, Rotunda Hospital. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh

The national archive of the Guthrie heelprick test cards is a unique, priceless and irreplaceable resource of immeasurable medical and societal(...)

Blood samples’ destruction
  • Health
  • March 13, 2013, 15:54

The planned destruction in some three weeks of more than one million blood samples from newborn babies is causing concern among medical special(...)

The Irish Heart Foundation
 today launched a national campaign to
 has called for a halt to the destruction of newborn screening card blood samples which could save the lives of extended family members of more than 1,000 young victims of Sudden Cardiac Death. Pictured are mothers from the SADs support group with photos of their deceased sons: Monica Martinfrom Rialto (who lost her son Connor, aged 16, in 2005)
, Eileen Nevinfrom Clondalkin (who lost her son Stephen, aged 18, in 2007)
, Sally Hegarty 
from Rathfarnham (who lost her son Rory, aged 16, in 2009) 
and Maureen KellyChair of the SADS Support Group (who lost her son Daragh, aged 21, in 2003)
. Photograph:
Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland

GENEVIEVE CARBERY Families and young people have been urged to request newborn blood samples held by the State, before over a million of (...)

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