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Chair of national children’s hospital development board to step down
- Irish News
- January 22, 2021, 19:52
The chair of the board developing the national children’s hospital is to step down at the end of next month, The Irish Times has learned. The resigna(...)

Five experts, five tips: Heart experts on good heart health
- Health & Family
- January 20, 2021, 06:01
1 Dr Paddy Barrett Consultant cardiologist at Blackrock Clinic “Eighty per cent of early heart disease is preventable. Eighty per cent of the factors(...)

Hospital ICUs activate ‘surge plans’ for Covid wave
- Health
- January 6, 2021, 02:45
Intensive care units are ramping up preparations to be ready for a further increase in the number of critically ill patients with coronavirus in the p(...)

Online choir music to the ears of Irish doctors during the pandemic
- Health & Family
- November 25, 2020, 06:01
Choirs became one of the first groups advised to stop meeting in person when the Covid-19 pandemic began to spread across Europe in February and March(...)

Potential therapies for rheumatoid arthritis discovered by Irish scientists
- Health
- November 12, 2020, 21:19
A team of Irish scientists has pinpointed two potential avenues for developing treatments of rheumatoid arthritis – a painful inflammatory disease aff(...)

Europe needs ‘serious acceleration’ in fight against Covid-19, warns WHO
- Health
- October 27, 2020, 01:16
Europe needs “serious acceleration” in the fight against Covid-19 as it has fallen “well behind this virus”, World Health Organisation (WHO) head of e(...)

Tallaght doctors query safety of reopened paediatric unit
- Health
- September 10, 2020, 01:00
Doctors at Tallaght University Hospital have questioned the safety of its newly reopened paediatric unit to treat seriously ill children. Anaesthetis(...)

Coronavirus: Doctors ‘concerned’ over child abuse risk during pandemic
- Social Affairs
- July 3, 2020, 07:59
Irish doctors are concerned that children in families under increased stress due to Covid-19 are at risk of abuse, a consultant in paediatric emergenc(...)

Coronavirus, compassion and care: The isolation and loneliness is just harrowing
- Opinion
- May 5, 2020, 05:19
I am a healthcare chaplain in Tallaght University Hospital and, as with hospitals all over Ireland and indeed the world, we have been confronting the (...)

Sláintecare more relevant in post-Covid-19 world than ever before
- Opinion
- April 14, 2020, 05:00
All over Ireland in recent weeks, people like me who work in the health service have experienced a strange sensation: Overt, unabashed pride in the se(...)