# treatment - Friday 23 November, 2012
# Cancer
# Cancer
MitaMed has begun a clinical trial in Cork and Dublin hospitals for its treatment for colorectal cancers.
# treatment - Wednesday 31 October, 2012
# Mental Health
# Mental Health
Una Butler’s husband took his own life in 2010 after killing their two young daughters.
# treatment - Friday 19 October, 2012
# Hospitals
# Hospitals
Dr James Reilly, Minister for Health, said that hospitals have achieved success in reaching a target list for inpatient and day case treatments.
# treatment - Monday 15 October, 2012
# Pakistan
# Pakistan
Malala Yousafzai (14), was attacked on her school bus last week for campaigning for the right to education.
# treatment - Tuesday 9 October, 2012
# Rats
# Rats
The research, carried out by the University of Guelph in Canada, used rats to better understand what led to the condition.
# treatment - Wednesday 3 October, 2012
# Child Abuse
# Child Abuse
Executive director Maeve Lewis said there is a huge need because fewer than 5 per cent of sex offenders end up in prison.
# treatment - Tuesday 2 October, 2012
# Drug Addiction
# Drug Addiction
Coolmine Therapeutic Centre says it urgently needs €100,000 from the State in order to keep its mother and child facilities for drug addicts open.
# treatment - Monday 24 September, 2012
# Cancer
# Cancer
However the drug will have to be approved in the HSE’s reimbursement process before it can be made available to medical card patients.
# treatment - Monday 27 August, 2012
# Health
# Health
Study published in The Lancet concerns new drug which could help half of all heart failure patients.
# treatment - Monday 20 August, 2012
# Katie Taylor
# Katie Taylor
The boxing champion spent the day with some of her younger fans…
# treatment - Friday 27 July, 2012
# Ovarian Cancer
# Ovarian Cancer
Study on drug resistant ovarian cancer cells could lead to more personalised treatment of the cancer.
# treatment - Saturday 7 July, 2012
# Aine Lawlor
# Aine Lawlor
The Morning Ireland presenter made a surprise return to the airwaves yesterday morning, and will chat with Miriam O’Callaghan on her show tonight.
# treatment - Saturday 9 June, 2012
# Opinion
# Opinion
Living wills would remove doctors’ God-like ability to decide what happens to people who may be approaching the end of their life, writes Liam Twomey
# treatment - Friday 18 May, 2012
# Opinion
# Opinion
The singer has been horrified by a report on the state of a building which houses counselling services for teenagers – and argues that it is indicative of how some children are being ignored by the State.
# treatment - Tuesday 15 May, 2012
# OneHundred
From The Daily Edge
# OneHundred
“I’m looking for characters…I’m not looking for 100 good-looking people.”
# treatment - Sunday 13 May, 2012
# Read Me
# Read Me
Last year, Ciaran Behan was admitted to a mental health unit. He describes the terror he felt – and what happened over the next two months.
# treatment - Wednesday 25 April, 2012
# Ellie Madden
# Ellie Madden
Ellie Madden spent five months in Boston receiving life-saving treatment for an oesophageal condition.
# treatment - Monday 2 April, 2012
# HSE
# HSE
The deaths took place in a private nursing home over the past two weeks. Minister for Health Dr James Reilly TD has discussed the matter with HIQA, who will visit the home tonight.
# treatment - Saturday 17 March, 2012
# Multiple Sclerosis
# Multiple Sclerosis
MS Ireland has led calls for the drug Gilenya to be made available here after a decision by regulators in the UK. But a European agency has been investigating the manufacturer after reports of the drug’s possible role in the death of 11 people.
# treatment - Monday 27 February, 2012
# Jobs
# Jobs
The company is to invest €330 million at a new plant in Kinsale.
# treatment - Thursday 16 February, 2012
# Waste Water
# Waste Water
A report from the Environmental Protection Agency says half of the plants in urban sectors are failing national and EU standards.
# treatment - Wednesday 15 February, 2012
# Daily Fix
# Daily Fix
In today’s Fix: household charge campaign; health service ‘reduction’; and the best way to get onto a crowded bus…
# treatment - Sunday 12 February, 2012
# Treatment
From The42
# Treatment
It has been confirmed that the ex-New Zealand great’s first transplanted kidney has failed.
# treatment - Thursday 9 February, 2012
# Health
# Health
Blood Transfusion Service finding it difficult to retain staff for specialised job with anti-social hours.
# treatment - Wednesday 30 November, 2011
# Recall
# Recall
The Irish Medicines Board said it was a purely precautionary measure.
# treatment - Friday 25 November, 2011
# Xolair
# Xolair
The Asthma Society of Ireland (ASI) has called for improved access to Xolair, a drug for severe allergic asthma.
# treatment - Tuesday 8 November, 2011
# Cystic Fibrosis
# Cystic Fibrosis
The ‘Podhaler’ is a wireless inhaler that reduces the time needed to receive antibiotic treatment from almost an hour a day to just five or six minutes.
# treatment - Monday 10 October, 2011
# Trouser... Eel
From The Daily Edge
# Trouser... Eel
The Chinese man ended up getting a little more than he bargained for when he went for a spa treatment that used live eels.
# treatment - Sunday 25 September, 2011
# Treatment
From The42
# Treatment
Former wing shifted to Auckland hospital with problems related to his kidney transplant, reportedly.
# treatment - Monday 19 September, 2011
# Breakthrough
# Breakthrough
Leader of the study, Dr Joe O’Sullivan (pictured) described it as “a huge step forward” in the fight against prostrate cancer.
# treatment - Tuesday 30 August, 2011
# Experiments
# Experiments
The experiments took place in the 1940s and included people being injected with syphilis and other illnesses, by what were described as “unethical” researchers.
# treatment - Monday 29 August, 2011
# Health
# Health
A hospital in Taiwan has admitted to transplanting HIV-infected organs from one donor into five different patients.
# treatment - Sunday 28 August, 2011
# Campaign
# Campaign
Sean Lyne is suffering from stage four cancer and has discovered a clinic in the US that could offer him a life-saving treatment.
# treatment - Thursday 11 August, 2011
# Opinion
# Opinion
Homeopathy is based on discredited claims, but it makes a lot of money, writes science blogger David Robert Grimes.
# treatment - Saturday 6 August, 2011
# Hugo Chavez
# Hugo Chavez
The Venezuelan leader underwent surgery on a tumour in June.
# treatment - Friday 8 July, 2011
# treatment - Thursday 30 June, 2011
# Family Affair
# Family Affair
Medical Council’s ethical guidelines discourage doctors from treating their own relatives.
# treatment - Wednesday 1 June, 2011
# Health
# Health
Some of the National Treatment Purchase Fund’s role will be taken over by the new Special Delivery Unit, which will focus on eliminating patient waiting lists.
# treatment - Thursday 14 April, 2011
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