UK man paralysed in road accident loses 'right to die' court battle
Paul Lamb wants the legal right to end his life with the help of a medic.
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Paul Lamb wants the legal right to end his life with the help of a medic.
More than 8 million citizens carried a card in 2013 compared to the previous year.
Gerry Conlon spent 14 years in prison for an IRA bombing that he played no part in.
Alex White says a special section of the HSE will be tasked with dealing with those that have already had their medical cards revoked.
The campaign wants the law changed so that any child diagnosed with a serious illness or congenital condition automatically gets a full medical card.
Those launching the campaign said they will maintain a presence outside Government Buildings until legislation is changed.
The dead included men and women aged from their 60s to 80s.
The company’s CEO said that it would employ a third party to “make due compensation” to victims and their families.
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Members of the GRA’s executive council said there is a need for a new system to address this, as well as legislation with harsher penalties for anyone who attacks a member of the force.
The children were extremely young, with some dying from syphilis, convulsions, heart failure and malnutrition.
The disease affects 9 million people around the world every year.
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An online petition has been started by a councillor who was horrified by the death of a teenage girl in Dublin.
Mercy University Hospital has confirmed a case of the Influenza H1N1 today.
The syndrome which has no known cure has appeared in five children in the US.
An outbreak of a “flu-like” illness has effected the hospital.
The Irish management team will start to piece together their starting XV this evening but the outside centre has a big training session ahead of him.
The child, who became ill at the weekend, has been transferred to a hospital in Glasgow.
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The man had also been suffering from unspecified diseases, and died at a hospital in Zaragoza.
Dignitas helped a total of 202 people to die last year.
Later today, Sharon’s body will be taken from the Knesset to his farm in southern Israel for burial.
The independent report contains 32 recommendation on how to reduce costs for the health insurance market.
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Twin sisters Kelly McCarthy and Kristen Maurer were both diagnosed with breast cancer only months apart.
More than 371 million people in the world have diabetes, but one in two of us could be unaware that we have it.
New proposed changes to the One Parent Family Credit have been announced – and separated parents are not happy.
The council said most healthy people will recover quickly from the infection but those with poor immune systems could become severely ill.
A major new study also shows that strokes caused by high blood pressure and unhealthy lifestyles were now to blame for over half of stroke deaths.
Access to health services is key to leaving homelessness behind – which is why Budget 2014 is so damaging to the Government’s commitment to end long-term homelessness by 2016, writes Niamh Randall.
Good citizenship in conjunction with some collaborative working between communities and government could build better and healthier communities, writes Anne-Maree Quinn.
The singer had earlier asked the Fine Gael TD Alan Farrell to explain the comments he made about the state of her mental health.
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Long-time Lourdes helper Lloyd Murphy writes about what the pilgrimage means to him – and to the pilgrims who visit the little French town each year in search of peace, companionship, and time to forget about illness.
The body charged with assessing the cost effectiveness of drugs for the HSE said two cancer treatments are too costly.
However the study in The Lancet found that opioids – such as heroin – are the biggest cause of death and illness of all illicit drugs.
The first signs of having the disease include body tremors, but this new test could give a diagnosis before symptoms present.