Following the publication of research earlier this week relating to the high proportion of surveyed doctors...

The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) has published a health technology assessment (HTA) recommending that...

A Bill providing for mandatory open disclosure of specified serious patient safety incidents has been published...

Minister for Health Simon Harris has launched a new national clinical guideline on the appropriate prescribing...

Packed with goodness and flavour and containing virtually no carbohydrates, there is nothing not to admire...

Adam Kay is a phenomenon. A former junior doctor, Kay is now an award-winning comedian and...

The airway physiology and the bacterial burden of the airways, skin and gastrointestinal tracts do not...

In the previous issue of the Medical Independent (MI), we revealed how the Department of Public...

The Head of Research for the Irish Cancer Society Dr Robert O’Connor has told this newspaper...

At its executive management meeting in October, the National Cancer Control Programme (NCCP) discussed the patients...

A number of concerns have been outlined in a recent draft report on lung cancer services,...

The timescale under which patients should receive a colonoscopy appointment, following a positive faecal immunochemical test...