Ireland needs to step up clinical research to boost therapies for patients – report

Each patient in a clinical trial will generate a benefit of about €13,500 to economy

Call for audit of pregnant women who took anti-epilepsy drug

FACS Forum says 400 children may have been born with foetal valproate syndrome

Government should spend more on medical research - charity group

HSE should appoint ‘research tsar’, says Medical Research Charities Group

Health Experience: ‘At the moment Luke’s rare disease is stable but we don’t know what the future holds’

At six months, Annemarie O’Dowd’s son developed alarming symptoms and was diagnosed with cystinosis, a rare genetic metabolic disease

Clinical trials in Ireland: the framework

Department of Health warned of ‘another thalidomide’

Use of valproate in pregnancy linked to developmental problems in children

Under control of Crumlin hospital, genetics unit faces issues of ethos

Centre will become department in Our Lady’s, Crumlin, which has Catholic ethos and whose chairman is Archbishop of Dublin

Review highlights flaws in conduct of medical research

Less a problem of funding than networking, says academic reviewer