Ban is part of ‘extraordinary measures’ introduced ‘in the interests of patient safety’

Medically accurate information available to those losing baby in first trimester

Pregnant woman taken to hospital after stress of incident caused high blood pressure

Facilities and staff shortages compromising care for 2,000, Diabetes Ireland claims

Thousands of porters, caterers, healthcare assistants to be balloted over pay dispute

Evan Cullen (9) has cerebral palsy which also affects left side of his body

My Options will provide the names of GPs and hospitals offering abortion services

Draft plans on terminations also call for conscientious objectors to opt out in 'timely manner'

‘Johnny taxpayer’ is being forced to pay for unnecessary inductions, conference hears

St James’s Hospital has one of the highest no-show rates nationally, figures show

‘If you want to torture people, send them to A&E’ – southern nurses hit out at lack of plan

Controversy about ethical codes overstates church influence in healthcare

Gynaecologist: Doctors cannot provide same care to women having terminations abroad

Michelle Harte missed many weeks of cancer treatment due to Eighth – Prof Louise Kenny

Irish women can be trusted to make the right decisions about their treatment, says medic

Couple told to wait for heartbeat to stop in pregnancy that would not go to full term

Two plans to set out infrastructure priorities and plan regional development

In the meantime, screening at the onset of labour ‘would be very positive and help reduce damage until vaccination is available’

Researchers in Cork are now using Artificial Intelligence to detect seizures as they occur

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

Pricewatch: Should our pregnant reader give birth in the public or private system?

Officials who took part in TV debate felt they were ‘thrown under the bus’ by Minister

Gynaecological outpatient waiting list shrank 20 per cent after audit, says chief

Simon Harris says health service decision making and not funding to blame for issue

Unacceptable that over 4,200 women currently awaiting procedures - Minister

Second theatre critical to cutting 4,200 waiting list for gynaecological procedures

Rotunda Hospital welcomes year’s first child while Limerick home birth goes off script

Doctors find provisions of Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act ‘stressful and difficult’

A day on the wards at Limerick University Maternity Hospital with a lactation consultant

Taking care of a sick child for a number of years is very demanding on families

Sinéad Scanlon describes the traumatic birth and death of her son Milo in March 2015

Mother’s harrowing story to inquest of how ‘we watched him gasp ... he died in my arms’

Liability admitted as child sued HSE over treatment following birth in Cork in 2011

The machine can process big data and could offer new insights into medical treatment

Appeal by HSE against basis on which €15.9m awarded to boy (9) is rejected

Profs Geraldine Boylan and Louise Kenny are directors of UCC’s Infant Centre

Cillian O’Leary is victorious in the men’s while Nollaigh Hunter takes the women’s

Child is first reported case in world free of parents’ mucolipidosis gene after PGD process

Mother and child both doing well after dramatic delivery en route to hospital

Exhibition opening in Galway will tour Limerick, Cork and Dublin