Prof Ray Mcdermott News Today

Potentially life-saving medicines may not be available next year due to Coalition decision not to provide required funding

Cancer medicine is undergoing a revolution, with scores of new treatments targeting specific tumours coming on stream

Public patients may now have to wait up to two years longer than all private patients for access to innovative therapies

Laya Healthcare and Irish Life Health must be unsettled as leading oncologists clearly direct patients to rival VHI

Two cancer patients and two oncologists raise concerns about how customers of private health insurers Irish Life and Laya Healthcare are losing out on access to new cancer treatments

Health insurers Irish Life and Laya Healthcare are ‘hiding behind’ the lengthy approval process for treatments, say oncologists Prof Ray McDermott and Prof John Crown

Cancer of the testicles has a survival rate of 95 per cent, meaning there exists a significant cohort of survivors to participate in research

Andy Creevy says his wife’s health improved almost immediately after starting trial

DUNSHEE, Jeffrey : Acknowledgement notice DUNSHEE - Jeffrey (Vermont USA and Dublin Ireland). On the first anniversary of his death, February 19, Jeff is very lovingly remembered by his family and friends in Ireland, USA and around the world. Sharen and Margaret would like to thank our family and friends for their support, and for the condolences offered by so many at his funeral. We extend our appreciation to those that travelled from afar, who wrote, and visited. Every message was appreciated...