Vaccine Expert Challenges Minister Harney on HPV Vaccine for Children:8th Feb 10
Ireland will have to work hard to ensure that girls being offered the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine get all three doses if the country wants to guarantee maximum protection against the...More >>
Doctor Protests New Irish “Ethical” Guidelines for Aborting Babies:28th Jan 10
Doctor Protests New Irish “Ethical” Guidelines for Aborting Babies
A Waterford doctor has criticised a recent ethical guide from the Irish Medical Council, calling its...More >>
Pregnant Mothers in Life-Threatening Situations: Irish Doctors “Will Intervene...:18th Jan 10
Pregnant Mothers in Life-Threatening Situations: Irish Doctors “Will Intervene Always”, Euro Court Told
In 2008, up to 700 women developed complications during pregnancy that...More >>
IFPA Using “Scaremongering” to Impose Abortion, Says PLC:11th Jan 10
IFPA Using “Scaremongering” to Impose Abortion, Says PLC
One of the groups sponsoring a legal assault on Ireland’s abortion law is being “irresponsible and disingenuous” in...More >>
End-of-Life Forum in Ireland Gets More Than 140 Submissions:30th Nov 09
A forum on the end of life, an initiative of the Irish Hospice Foundation, says it has completed the “listening phase” of a year-long public consultation on dying. As part of “the national...More >>
New Ethical Guidelines for Irish Doctors Published :26th Nov 09
New Ethical Guidelines for Irish Doctors Published
The new ethical guidelines of the Medical Council of Ireland require doctors to treat both a mother and her unborn child....More >>
Acceptance of People with Down Syndrome is Saving Lives in Ireland :9th Nov 09
Up to 50 per cent of pregnant mothers attending a Dublin maternity hospital who learn they’re carrying a child with Down Syndrome decide to abort the child, says a leading obstetrician.
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People Near Death Not Dying Where They Wish To, Says Care Expert:2nd Nov 09
There is a serious mismatch between where people want to die and where they actually do die, according to a leading expert in end-of-life care. Tessa Ing, head of End of Life Care Strategy at...More >>
Irish Research Questions Accuracy of Pregnancy Health-Monitoring Techniques:29th Oct 09
Foetal kick charts, used to determine whether a pregnancy is progressing well, are inaccurate and doctors should stop using them, according to Irish researchers. Around five per cent of doctors...More >>
Revelation about Pro-Euthansia Professor’s Talk at CUH Ethics Forum:19th Oct 09
An investigation by Family & Life into controversial ethicist Prof Len Doyal’s invitation to speak at Cork University Hospital in April in favour of legalising euthanasia has discovered—through...More >>