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Father-of-two opposed to vaccinating children challenges judge’s refusal to...
A FATHER-of-two who is opposed to his children receiving vaccinations is challenging a judge’s refusal to postpone an order that the shots be given. The father wants a stay on a decision by made by a...
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Patients at risk as only minority of healthcare staff get flu jab
ONLY a minority of staff in HSE-run hospitals and nursing homes are getting the winter flu jab, putting patients at risk. Figures for last winter show that the take-up was just 17.4pc among hospital...
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State Claims Agency in the spotlight over handling of sensitive medical cases
The State Claims Agency, the organisation that manages personal injury and property damage claims against the State, tends to go about its work quietly, without impinging much on the public...
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Babies should be given ‘routine’ vaccine for tummy bug
Giving children aged six weeks to 32 weeks the oral rotavirus vaccine would help cut the risk of the serious condition that affects both the stomach and the intestine. The recommendations are contained...
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Protein could lead to prostate cancer vaccine
Researchers at Nottingham Trent University have identified characteristics in a protein which may not only be able to stimulate the body’s own defences to attack tumour cells, but which could also help...
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Parents must pay €88 for meningitis B vaccine
The vaccine is not yet available for free, and a top-level advisory committee is still looking at whether it should add it to the normal schedule of jabs given to children. Meningitis Research...
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Controversy over vaccine
Theresa Heaney (December 14th) wonders “why have parents not been told that Hiqa says the vaccine does not guarantee protection against cervical cancer with this vaccine?” As any medic will confirm,...
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Needle-free vaccine to take sting out of whooping cough
Scientists have come up with a new vaccine that doesn’t require needle injection and is safe enough for a newborn baby. The research group included a team from NUI Maynooth and a company has already...
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Fear for patients over health workers’ low flu jab take-up
PATIENTS and elderly residents are being put at risk of flu because of low numbers of staff in HSE-run hospitals and nursing homes who are getting the winter flu jab. Figures for last winter show that...
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Vaccination for MMR shows ‘marked’ improvement
Some 93 per cent of children in Ireland have received the MMR vaccine by two years of age, a “marked” improvement on previous years, the HSE’s disease surveillance arm said. The Health Protection...
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