Michael Barry
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Drug used to manage hospital Covid-19 withheld from nursing homes
- Health
- April 27, 2020, 02:48
A drug being used to successfully manage Covid-19 patients in hospitals is being withheld from patients in the community, including in nursing homes. (...)

RIC row: ‘Shameful’ if spirit and tolerance of 2016 events lost
- Irish News
- January 22, 2020, 02:00
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(...)

War of Independence discovery reveals IRA spy network
- Heritage
- January 21, 2020
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(...)

Deep rifts over Presbyterian Church’s hard line on same-sex marriage
- Religion & Beliefs
- October 21, 2019, 01:00
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 incentivised to move patients off expensive medicines
- Health
- June 1, 2019, 01:00
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 (...)

HSE to consider funding Spinraza as NHS approves muscle-wasting therapy
- Health & Pharma
- May 15, 2019, 08:02
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(...)

Pricing of medicines needs to be reformed, says IPHA president
- Health & Pharma
- May 15, 2019, 05:45
The Government and pharmaceutical companies need to fundamentally reform the approach to setting medicine prices, a spokesman for the major drug compa(...)

New cancer drugs could cost State €500m
- Health
- April 20, 2019, 01:00
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(...)

Rivals have no plans to follow VHI’s decision on cancer drugs
- Health
- April 16, 2019, 00:27
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 (...)

Drug costs threaten to bankrupt healthcare, says lobby group
- Health & Pharma
- April 9, 2019, 12:50
Spiralling drug costs threaten to bankrupt healthcare systems and deny patients access to essential medicines, according to lobby group Access to Medi(...)