Mater Hospital performs new heart valve procedure for patients too high-risk for open surgery
A major step forward has been made A new treatment being offered at Dublin’s Mater Hospital could give high-risk heart patients an option that would previously have been unavailable to them. The hospital has begun carrying out percutaneous mitral valve replacement, a minimally invasive procedure designed for patients who may not be well enough to […]
2 days ago
Skyclarys: The €288,000 drug that 200 Irish patients still cannot get
The summer’s health story isn’t going away A demonstration outside Leinster House, a letter signed by 47 members of Fianna Fáil’s parliamentary party, and now a face-to-face meeting with the company that makes the drug. Skyclarys has become one of the most politically awkward health stories of the summer, and it is not going away. […]
3 days ago
Skyclarys: HSE to reconsider Friedreich’s Ataxia drug funding
When will a decision on Skyclarys be made? The HSE Drugs Group meets on Tuesday to reconsider whether to fund Skyclarys, the first treatment shown to slow the progression of Friedreich’s Ataxia. Around 200 people in Ireland live with the rare neurological disease and have campaigned for the drug to be made available on the […]
1 week ago
Synthetic drugs: Poisonings double in Ireland in three years
Doctors sound alarm The number of suspected poisonings involving synthetic drugs reported to Ireland’s National Poisons Information Centre has doubled in just three years, according to new HSE data, as doctors warn that many of the substances cannot be detected by routine hospital tests. The drugs are designed to replicate the effects of cocaine or […]
1 week ago
Cobh woman to get hip surgery after mother confronted Taoiseach
Hip surgery funded after 15-year wait A 19-year-old woman from Cobh is to receive specialised hip surgery in the United States following years of campaigning by her family. However this all came about after her mother confronted Taoiseach Micheál Martin last year, as reported by RTÉ News. Katie Byrne, who has cerebral palsy, a dysplastic […]
2 weeks ago
INMO warns of summer trolley crisis as over 600 left without beds
Trolley crisis worst at University Hospital Limerick The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has urged the HSE to “get a handle” on a summer trolley crisis, with more than 600 patients left without a bed in hospitals across the country. The figures were reported by the Irish Mirror. According to the latest INMO figures, released […]
2 weeks ago