Gary Culliton reports on a study that examines trends in Irish neonatal mortality data and compares the rates to those of other countries {openx:269} Prematurity is now the leading cause of neonatal mortality in Ireland, representing a change from previous years, while deaths related to asphyxia have remained largely unchanged, according to a new study.

Appeals have been lodged with An Bord Pleanála against planning permission granted for Owen O’Callaghan’s proposed €80 million private hospital at Lancaster Quay in Cork.

Become a motorcycle god while making money for Temple Street Children’s Hospital, or just simply donate some money to a good cause – that’s the message from the “Irish 66ers” – a motorcycle good-stuff gang who journeys down the mother of all roads every two years.

No child under the age of 18 will ever be admitted to an adult inpatient psychiatric care unit – outside of exceptional cases – after December 2011, the Mental Health Commission announced today (August 27).

Alternative health practitioners should be enlisted in the fight to get children and healthcare workers vaccinated for swine flu, new research has argued.

Dr Garrett FitzGerald writes that we are willing to embrace everyone as one of our own, as long as they are famous and can bring a few more punters into our pubs {openx:269} They’ve gone stone mad below in Clare, a minor enough adjustment.

Dr Mick Molloy ponders the new HPAT test for school leavers wishing to study medicine and wonders if it is possible to devise an entry system to medical school that would be completely fair {openx:269} The first casualties and winners of the new admissions into medicine have been made public this week.

Approximately 80 representatives from Irish and international legal firms met in Dublin on Friday, August 14 in preparation for a major Health Service Executive tender for legal services.

Just got my bike back from the shop.

Up to 16,000 people every week have been logging on to the Health Protection Surveillance Centre’s (HPSC’s) website – www.