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New online test will help detect early signs of dementia

GPs specialising in dementia will provide the online service

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said that “antimicrobial resistance is a global health emergency”. Photograph: Julien Behal/PA Wire

The world is running out of antibiotics, WHO warns

Growing resistance could ‘seriously jeopardise’ progress made in modern medicine

At the opening of the Trinity Centre for Excellence in Ageing and Intellectual Disability, sisters Kathleen Ely and Margaret Shanahan from Thurles. Photograph: Mark Stedman

TCD opens Centre for Ageing and Intellectual Disability

IDS-Tilda underpins Ireland’s status as world leader in intellectual disability and aging research

Sleep has more of an impact on your health than a 50% pay rise

Study shows amount of sleep impacts on feeling of wellbeing

A dog outside a shop on Dublin’s Dame Street in Dublin. File photograph: Frank Miller

Owners of sick dogs more likely to suffer from stress and anxiety

Study finds ‘caregiver burden’ also applies to animal owners

TCD scientists discover how ‘natural killer’ cells target cancer

Findings may explain why people with obesity have impaired capacity to fight disease

Majella O’Donnell at the launch of the Irish Cancer Society’s breast-cancer fundraising campaign “Cups Against Cancer” on Monday

Breakthrough allows identification of resistance to breast cancer treatment

Early detection development by Irish researchers enables different strategy to be put in place

Consultant recruitment has led to a nine-year waiting list for an outpatient appointment at University Hospital Waterford

Ireland’s ailing health service: What consultants say

Extracts from group’s submission highlight long wait times and management problems

Cancelled operations: elective surgery fell 54 per cent between 2012 and 2016, according to the Irish Hospital Consultants Association. Photograph: E+/Getty

Billions required to repair healthcare system, consultants say

Patients at one hospital wait up to nine years to see doctor, according to submission to Government

Central Mental Hospital, Dundrum: Staff at Portlaoise prison have expressed concern prisoners in “dire” need of the CMH have been left on a waiting list so long. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

Bed capacity in the Central Mental Hospital at ‘critical’ level

Waiting list of 29 for CMH, 20 of whom are referrals from Irish Prison Service

The Irish Hospital Consultants Association warned key targets in relation to cancer care were being missed. Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire

Irish hospitals ‘beginning to fail’, senior doctors warn

Consultants’ group says Government needs to invest more than €5bn into health system

Isabel Terry from Cork on her way to Newcastle for a double heart and lung transplant. Photograph: Life on the List Facebook page

Cork woman in UK for heart-and-lung operation after 15-year wait

Isabel Terry told this morning that a match for her has been found

A recent residents’ protest in relation to Apple’s office expansion in Cork. Sinead O’Mahony described the noise from the Apple works as “like a form of torture”.

Apple’s Cork works adversely affect boy with autism, mother claims

Noise from expansion works affecting wellbeing of boy with Asperger’s, mother says

Venous thromboembolism: the umbrella term includes conditions such as pulmonary embolism, when a blood vessel in the lungs becomes blocked. Photograph: BSIP/UIG Via Getty

Mater doctors lead drive to reduce clot-related hospital deaths

Venous thromboembolism is third-largest cause of cardiovascular death

HSE examines plan to move South Tipperary Hospital to different group

Under proposals facility would move to University of Limerick group

The Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association says patients deserve to know they will have access to new medicines at least as fast as patients in comparable European countries

Irish patients have ‘worst access’ to new drugs

Pharma industry calls on Government to increase spending on new medicines

A 24-hour breakdown and recovery service had to be dispatched on a total of 203 occasions during 2016 in response to callouts from stranded emergency ambulances

HSE ambulances needed roadside assistance 200 times last year

Freedom of Information request shows 5% of fleet has travelled more than 300,000kms

The HSE is calling on vulnerable groups to get the flu vaccine, though there is uncertainty about how effective this year’s formulation will be. File photograph: Getty Images

Fears of flu outbreak prompts vaccine call from HSE

Doubling of cases in Australia, NZ leads to concerns of heavy winter flu season in Ireland

Maja Glowacka (5), a junior infants pupil at Scoil Mhuire Naofa primary school in Carrigtwohill, Co Cork who died in the early hours of Tuesday morning

Fundraising drive for family of girl (5) who died in Co Cork

Maja Glowacka, a junior infants pupil at Scoil Mhuire Naofa, died early on Tuesday

Plans for a 40-bed “patient hotel” to alleviate overcrowding at the accident & emergency unit at South Tipperary General Hospital (STGH) in Clonmel were first mooted more than a year ago.

Doctors warn of ‘chaos, danger, degradation’ at Clonmel hospital

Crisis meeting with Harris due as STGH faces winter with many on trolleys in corridors

Caroline Sweeney with her daughters, Jamie and Zara

Mother with rare cancer seeks funds for treatment abroad

Woman (37) told cancer is terminal but wants to extend life for her two children

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