VHI Healthcare is cutting fees paid to hospital consultants and GPs by five per cent, under a new agreement due to come into effect tomorrow.

The European Commission on health has adopted its official recommendation for EU member states to create a smoke free Europe by 2012.

HIQA has published a Report on Recommendations for a Unique Health Identifier for Individuals in Ireland.

The deadline for the Irish Healthcare Awards is looming: entries must be received by 3 p.

As the last bits of free time drift irretrievably out of my week, there’s no hope of me trying to keep up with news.

Two new Irish-made DVDs for patients with PKU, and their families, aim to help them to make the necessary lifestyle changes.

The Fitness to Practise Panel of the General Medical Council (GMC) in the UK is due to complete its latest sitting of the public inquiry into Dr Andrew Wakefield this Friday, June 26.

IRISH scientists have developed a supplement that slows the progression of the world’s leading cause of blindness.

Most men attending urology clinics would be willing to donate prostate tissue to a biobank for cancer research.

Claire Callanan of Beauchamps Solicitors reports on a case in which a medical reporter — despite having no commercial interest in a drug — was fined for ‘advertising’ it.