Sheila Wayman

Dublin hospital is ‘failing to meet the specific needs’ of newborns requiring intensive care, doctors say

Dr Ann Hickey this month told management of Children’s Health Ireland she could no longer continue as neonatology lead due to inaction on outdated systems of care

We should stop calling this phase of life the ‘terrible twos’, as many toddlers’ traits are a formula for grown-up happiness

It is time to push back against judging over breastfeeding and birthing, say medical couple

Women with gestational diabetes have been added to a ‘game-changing’ HSE programme that focuses on a list of chronic conditions

Mary-Ann O’Brien remembers her husband and their time setting up and running the Jack and Jill Children’s Foundation

A mother describes the lengths all of her family had to go to in order to help her son deal with his drug dependency so that they could begin to recover and get on with their lives

Doctors check all newborns but these clinical examinations will miss some

Having felt a sense of shame and failure for years, bariatric surgery proved life-changing for electrical contractor Joe Meade

Disadvantaged groups, however, continue to be disproportionately affected by an overall rise obesity over the past 30-plus years

We can’t hold back the years, but we can influence the pace of our biological ageing and focus on the positives

Many men will struggle in the postnatal period but finding support can be difficult

Golfer Pádraig Harrington is proactive about raising awareness of oesophageal cancer, the incidence of which has grown about fourfold in the Western world in the last four decades

Epilepsy: With every new referral, ‘we literally put on our detective hats and scrutinise the story’

A new prehabilitation initiative gives guidance to patients on how to improve their chances of having no complications and a faster recovery