By Gary Culliton.

By Catherine Reilly.

Dear Editor,  A recent statement from the College of Psychiatry deplores the absence of guidelines from a Department of Health Committee for general practitioners in accessing “suitable psychiatrists” in order to assess a pregnant woman showing signs of “suicidality” and how a local HSE psychiatrist might be bypassed, should there be concerns about that psychiatrist’s “ideological stance on abortion” by

Patients named Brady could be at an increased risk of requiring a pacemaker compared with the general population, say Dublin researchers in a study published in the BMJ, which shows a link between people’s names and their health.

Leading GP Dr Austin O’Carroll clearly tells Catherine Reilly, reporting on the annual Crystal Clear MSD Health Literacy Awards, why health literacy matters.

Doctors may need to treat high blood pressure in women earlier and more aggressively than they do in men, according to scientists at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.

By Gary Culliton.

Dear Editor,  I was puzzled by the report of the new diagnostic centre in Mitchelstown (IMT, 20.

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By Gary Culliton.