An Bord Pleanála is due to decide on the planning appeal for a new 160-bed hospital on the Mount Carmel campus by July 7.

A TV production company is looking for Irish doctors with the ‘x-factor’ to audition for new health show.

A RESEARCH programme for an emerging technique that uses light and other forms of radiant energy to understand more about the inner working of cells and tissues has been launched with an inaugural conference at the RCSI.

Labour Equality Spokesperson Kathleen Lynch has slammed “the point-blank refusal of the Government to adopt HIQA recommendations for standards in dealing with people with special needs.

ONLY three per cent of people suggested generic drugs as a way to reduce prices in a survey of Irish consumers’ awareness and attitudes to the cost of medicines.

Dr Robert O’Sullivan on the diseases that still bear the names of Nazi doctors — now thought to be despicable criminals and murderers.

Women with bulimia nervosa appear to respond more impulsively during psychological testing than those without eating disorders, and brain scans show differences in areas responsible for regulating behaviour, according to a new report.

An analysis of previously reported studies has found that women who are obese during pregnancy have an increased risk of delivering a child with such birth defects as spina bifida and neural tube defects, although the absolute increase in risk is likely to be small.

A new study has found that women from socially-deprived backgrounds are more than twice as likely as women from affluent backgrounds to develop type 2 diabetes.

Major jobs cuts in the HSE’s community services will be unveiled within the next few days, Chief Executive Prof Brendan Drumm has revealed in an exclusive interview with Irish Medical Times’ website.