Suzanne Cotter

Thousands of young people are being offered a free dose of the MMR vaccine in an attempt to contain the biggest outbreak of mumps in a decade. The He(...)

Parents in some of the wealthiest parts of the State have been slowest to have their children vaccinated, unpublished figures show. Uptake of the MMR(...)

The origins of the word for the disease are lost in time, but most probably come from the “grimace” of the sufferer who finds swallowing painful. Mump(...)

The Health Service Executive (HSE) has appealed to the public to be vigilant for the symptoms of meningitis after three people died from the condition(...)

As a woman with congenital rubella syndrome, I would like to discuss vaccinations and speak from experience. My twin sister and I share this same birt(...)

Parents have been urged to ensure their children’s vaccinations are up to date as a measles outbreak grows. Forty suspected cases of measles have bee(...)

Some 93 per cent of children in Ireland have received the MMR vaccine by two years of age, a “marked” improvement on previous years, the HSE’s (...)