Coombe Hospital
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Women who go private to give birth more likely to have Caesarean
- Health
- September 29, 2020, 00:31
Women who go private to have their baby are almost three times more likely than public patients to have an elective Caesarean section, according to a (...)

Maternity services: ‘Nobody has seen Covid and flu together yet – that’s the scary part’
- Parenting
- September 15, 2020, 06:01
“Winter is coming . . . ” The Rotunda hospital’s director of midwifery and nursing, Fiona Hanrahan, evokes a Game of Thrones mantra to convey the sen(...)

Study will examine if lockdown impacts level of allergies among newborns
- Health
- August 17, 2020, 17:14
Irish researchers will examine if coronavirus restrictions result in an increase in allergies among babies born since March, due to reduced exposure t(...)

Has lockdown reduced the number of premature babies? This doctor thinks so
- Parenting
- July 7, 2020, 06:00
Mandy Daly still wonders if she hadn’t got on to a plane, would she have not gone into premature labour and her daughter not had to cope with the comp(...)

Covid-19: Pregnant women report significant rise in anxiety
- Social Affairs
- May 15, 2020, 19:25
Anxiety in pregnant woman has increased due to Covid-19 , a study by the Coombe hospital, Dublin indicates. In all 71 women in their second and third(...)

Fintan O’Toole: We must not allow coronavirus pandemic to rob us of grief
- Opinion
- March 24, 2020, 05:00
My grandfather died of an infectious disease, tuberculosis, in 1932 when he was in his early 30s. My mother’s little sister Frances died in 1939 when (...)

The Coombe unlikely to be moved to new site at children’s hospital ‘for years’
- Health
- January 2, 2020, 01:00
Plans to move the Coombe Women & Infants University Hospital in Dublin to a site by the new national children’s hospital at St James’s are unlikel(...)

Coombe hospital obstetrician appointed HSE clinical lead for abortion
- Irish News
- December 31, 2019, 01:12
Dr Aoife Mullally, an obstetrician at the Coombe hospital in Dublin, has been appointed HSE clinical lead for abortion, a year after the service was i(...)

‘Heavy onus’ on Coombe to provide information on mother’s death
- Social Affairs
- December 2, 2019, 19:51
There was a “heavy onus” on the master of the Coombe maternity hospital, Dublin, to ensure all information relating to the death of a young mother a w(...)

Coroner flags Savita guidelines ahead of McEvoy inquest
- Social Affairs
- October 14, 2019, 18:39
HSE protocols drawn up following the death of Savita Halappanavar should be studied by legal representatives in advance of an inquest into the death o(...)