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# Health

All time
Opinion: A million people have no health cover as low-paid families are excluded from access to the medical card
Felim O'Rourke
5 Mar 2019
34.7k
95
Another measles outbreak confirmed, this time in north Dublin
4 Mar 2019
36.3k
64
Taoiseach on suspicious package: 'Come after us, don't come after our staff or families'
4 Mar 2019
33.3k
87
Hair health 101: we asked two experts about the reasons and remedies for female hair loss
3 Mar 2019
6.6k
8
Opinion: 'E-cigarettes may be an effective tobacco cessation tool but at what cost to society'?
Des Cox
2 Mar 2019
21.4k
51
Poll: How do you feel about religious symbols in hospitals?
28 Feb 2019
52.2k
173
'Look in my child's eyes and tell him his life is not worth saving': Parents call for access to medication
28 Feb 2019
10.4k
28
'A price has been put on the value of life': HSE will not reimburse drug for children with rare condition
Updated 25 Feb 2019
23.5k
62
Opinion: There is a wonder-drug that all schools should be prescribing
Niall Moyna
25 Feb 2019
58.2k
14
'When we tried to explain PKU to people in the past, they'd say we were mad, things are different now'
24 Feb 2019
34.1k
1
'He has a chance at life now': HSE grants access to drug that could help boys with rare condition keep walking
22 Feb 2019
22.9k
5
'Unenforceable and unworkable': Government given legal warning over alcohol ad restrictions
21 Feb 2019
21.4k
42
Inquiry to be considered after children reassured hearing was fine only to be told years later of impairment
20 Feb 2019
10.7k
6
'I'm happy for the project to continue': Simon Harris rules out re-tendering children's hospital
16 Feb 2019
18.8k
98
34 people have died from the flu so far this season
14 Feb 2019
21.0k
23
'Think of us as you tuck into your turkey': Letters reveal nurses' fury at Varadkar over annual leave comments
12 Feb 2019
47.9k
60
The Labour Court is intervening in the nurses' strike
Updated 11 Feb 2019
43.6k
113
'Simon Harris has to go': Sinn Féin to table motion of no confidence in health minister
11 Feb 2019
20.7k
132
Nurses 'strongly condemn' protest outside Simon Harris' home
Updated 10 Feb 2019
116k
112
Opinion: Prevention is better than cure so there is no point in taxing vitamins
Ciara Wright PhD
10 Feb 2019
18.2k
37
'This campaign has to succeed, it is our time': Tens of thousands march in support of nurses and midwives
Updated 9 Feb 2019
71.4k
218
Talks over nurses' strike end at Labour Court
8 Feb 2019
21.0k
47
Varadkar has 'total confidence' in health minister Harris over children's hospital overrun
Updated 8 Feb 2019
16.6k
99
'Omnishambles': Call for Harris to be fired over children's hospital overrun but he says he 'behaved appropriately'
Updated 7 Feb 2019
28.5k
90
'We're absolutely wrecked, we're afraid we'll make a mistake': Psychiatric nurses will have to work through night again
Updated 6 Feb 2019
41.5k
46
Ambulance staff announce three more days of strike action
6 Feb 2019
9.6k
22
'Slow drive' Dublin protest as young GPs say 'they will not stay in the country' under current contract
Updated 6 Feb 2019
43.3k
120
Opinion: Miscarriages are part of nature - so why is the subject still such a taboo?
Darragh Quinn
6 Feb 2019
14.1k
31
'A major national emergency': Government called to resolve nurses' strike as 50,000 patients affected this week
5 Feb 2019
17.4k
60
INMO calls ministers' invite to talk about issues other than pay 'massively disrespectful' and 'cynical'
Updated 4 Feb 2019
25.8k
118
Opinion: We need to remove the stigma around lung cancer - no one should be blamed for getting it
Anne-Marie Baird
4 Feb 2019
17.0k
24
'Rats out of the HSE': Protesters want external probe into claims abortion details were leaked
4 Feb 2019
18.6k
57
Just 2% of safeguarding concerns reported to HSE come from people experiencing alleged abuse
3 Feb 2019
7.0k
9
'You wouldn't tell a child they couldn't have chemo, but our son is being denied the medication he needs'
3 Feb 2019
19.4k
17
Varadkar confirms that children's hospital review WILL be able to find individuals accountable
3 Feb 2019
18.6k
94
Anti-abortion protesters say they received 'reliable information' on abortions taking place in Drogheda hospital
1 Feb 2019
74.0k
208
Nurses to meet tomorrow to discuss adding further strike dates
1 Feb 2019
10.9k
38
Breakfast may not be the most important meal of the day after all
31 Jan 2019
51.1k
35
'The relationship between nurses and the HSE is like a bad marriage': Nurses on strike all over country
Updated 30 Jan 2019
31.0k
160
Three-quarters of Irish people support nurses as 24-hour strike kicks off around the country
30 Jan 2019
17.0k
99
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