Michael Barry

A drug being used to successfully manage Covid-19 patients in hospitals is being withheld from patients in the community, including in nursing homes. (...)

Politicians have been told it “will be a shame, and shameful” if the tolerance that has marked the Decade of Commemorations is lost following the cont(...)

The lengths to which the IRA went to target enemy intelligence officers in the War of Independence is revealed in a photograph album which has never b(...)

The recent dismissal of a Dublin-based Presbyterian Church elder is the latest example of a particularly hard line taken by the church against same-se(...)

Hospitals are being offered a €500 incentive for every patient they move off two expensive high-tech medicines and on to cheaper alternatives, in the (...)

Health authorities in England and Wales have approved the use of the drug Spinraza, leaving Ireland, with Estonia, as the only EU states barring acces(...)

The Government and pharmaceutical companies need to fundamentally reform the approach to setting medicine prices, a spokesman for the major drug compa(...)

It could cost the State up to €500 million to provide public patients with wider access to innovative new cancer therapies in the same way health insu(...)

Commercial rivals to the VHI say they have no plans to follow the semi-State health insurer’s lead by providing wider access to cancer drugs for some (...)

Spiralling drug costs threaten to bankrupt healthcare systems and deny patients access to essential medicines, according to lobby group Access to Medi(...)