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Clara Caslin, a 23-year-old student: ‘I knew that something was seriously wrong but I tried to hide it because I was afraid of the doctor.’ Photograph: Alan Betson
‘I asked my surgeon if I would live and he said he didn’t know’

In September 2011, I started suffering from extreme stomach cramps, diarrhoea and fever which, over time, continued to get worse. I knew that somethin(...)

John Power: ‘It is important as a leader to create a vision that people buy in to.’
Inside an Irish medical tech company...Aerogen

I left school at 16 and trained originally as a draughtsman, gaining my design engineering qualification and later an MBA through night school. So, my(...)

With only 5% of policies fully covering emergency care in private hospitals, the vast majority of those who become seriously ill while undergoing treatment in private hospitals are in danger of being financially penalised or denied care. Photograph: The Irish Times
Doctor warns on emergency care cover in private hospitals

People could die because health insurance companies do not fully cover emergency care in private hospitals for patients who suffer complications while(...)

Clockwise: Dr James Crew, chairman of the Sanata Clara Valley Medical Centre and Berkeley survivors Niall Murray; Hannah Waters; Aoife Beary; and a recovering Clodagh Cogley
California hospital starts road to recovery for Berkeley injured

The brain injury and spinal cord centre at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, 80km south of San Francisco, is busy with doctors, nurses and suppor(...)

Dhara Kivlehan (left), who lived with her husband Michael (right) in Dromahair, Co Leitrim, died in the Royal Victoria hospital, Belfast, in September 2010, a week after giving birth at Sligo Regional Hospital.
Woman had renal failure six days before death, inquest hears

An obstetric registrar at Sligo Regional Hospital found that Dhara Kivlehan was in acute renal failure on September 22nd, 2010, six days before her de(...)

David Greene who was fatally injured in an assault in Melbourne last year. Photograph: PA
Parents of David Greene say they cannot forgive son’s killer

The pre-sentencing hearing for Luke Wentholt, the man who murdered Irishman David Greene during a party in Melbourne in August last year, was held in(...)