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Losing a child in Ireland: ‘We held Beatrice together until her heartbeat slowed and faded away’ irishtimes.com/health/2025/09…
Doubts grow that planned State elective hospitals will be built before 2030s irishtimes.com/health/2025/09…
National Orthopaedic Hospital staff seek boycott of Israeli company’s medicines irishtimes.com/health/2025/09…
Spinach and mixed salad leaves by Garden of Eden recalled after listeria found irishtimes.com/health/2025/09…
Finance Minister not convinced single budget can reduce child community care waiting lists irishtimes.com/health/2025/09…
Number of children on community healthcare waiting lists rises to 42,000 irishtimes.com/health/2025/09…
Final maternity hospital due to switch entirely to electronic records by end of year irishtimes.com/health/2025/09…
National Ambulance Service staff reject deal aimed at addressing long-running row irishtimes.com/health/2025/09…
The modern Irish GP: How a new kind of doctor is reinventing general practice irishtimes.com/health/2025/09…
Disability rights strategy ‘very vague’ and lacks ambition, says activist irishtimes.com/health/2025/09…
Sedative known as the ‘coffin tablet’ makes up large quantity of seized medication here irishtimes.com/health/2025/09…
Doctor who failed to refer ‘red flag’ patient for mammogram should be suspended, urges Medical Council irishtimes.com/health/2025/09…
Girls keep telling me by message that they want to stop dating me irishtimes.com/health/your-we…
Severe reaction to bee stings is potentially life-threatening and demands emergency care irishtimes.com/health/2025/09…
Childhood cancer: ‘I had this thing in my head that, until somebody tells me, it’s not real’ irishtimes.com/health/your-we…
Prostate cancer: ‘Getting the news was a shock – I was 49, very fit and had no symptoms’ irishtimes.com/health/2025/09…
For the first time in a long time, my body shrugged the exertion off irishtimes.com/health/your-we…
How do I spot if my child has . . . heat exhaustion? irishtimes.com/life-and-style…
Raising Limerick hospital chief’s salary ‘in best interests’ of operations, staff told irishtimes.com/health/2025/09…
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