John Crown

Coronavirus: Motorists must slow down to avoid overburdening hospitals – RSA

Gardaí, medics and Minister for Transport concerned at increase in road deaths

Coronavirus: Cases in Republic rise to 785 as Government response criticised

Ministers move to address shortcomings in the €203 pandemic unemployment payment

Coronavirus: Government to ramp up support for laid-off workers

Employers will be allowed to top up State’s €203-a-week unemployment payment

Medics raise concerns about staffing levels as HSE stocks up on ventilators

HSE orders more ventilators to cope but shortage of ICU staff may be bigger problem

Covid-19 a greater menace to the elderly and vulnerable

Opportunistic nature of virus evident in data emerging from outbreaks in western countries

Almost half of cancer drug trials may show exaggerated effects – study

Research claims trials between 2014 and 2016 raises ‘serious concerns about low standards’

Access to cancer drugs for private patients ‘incredibly unfair’

Consultant oncologist says inequity between public and private healthcare ‘very troubling’

Pay for new cancer drugs with €3 hike on price of cigarettes, says John Crown

Oncologist says immunotherapy treatments are too dear and costs need to be reined in

Galway singer with cervical cancer seeks access to clinical trial

Áine Morgan believes immunotherapy drug Pembrolizumab can offer her a lifeline

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Eurovision mania kicks off on the ‘Late Late’ while self-confessed quiz nut Jeremy Clarkson hosts special edition of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’

Airwaves give as good as they get in the eye of Storm Ophelia

Storm Ophelia brings out the best from radio’s presenters, as each show gives us their own take on Monday’s hurricane

Outcomes improving for women with metastatic breast cancer

Conference at St Vincent’s will discuss advances in how disease is being treated

St Vincent’s should declare its independence, experts say

Leading medics call on facility to outline its position amid National Maternity Hospital row

Planned move of National Maternity Hospital in jeopardy

Board of St Vincent’s to review move to religious-owned site in wake of controversy

Why one of Ireland’s most famous schools is going Gaelscoil

Synge Street in Dublin 8 is turning to the Irish language to restore pupil numbers

Sarcoma patients protest outside HSE headquarters

Group calls on St Vincent’s to continue employing specialist in sarcoma Alexia Bertuzzi

Stroke patients are no less deserving than cancer patients

Decisions on new treatments should not be driven by media or political attention

Cancer patients will die over new drug delays, say doctors

Lifesaving drugs denied to seriously ill patients by slow HSE decision-making

Living with cancer: ‘Combined surgery and pembro kept me alive’

Numerous controversies over huge costs of drugs have erupted. What price do we put on life?

All you need to know about tight race for those Seanad seats

Sidelights of Irish political life: Car parks, farm lanes and enduring absence from home

Kathy Sheridan runs the rule over maverick medic John Crown

Senator and professor has an unassailable zeal for cancer research and health service reform

Disgrace that Seanad still being elected in archaic way

Precedents do not augur well for real reform

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