“Hope is perfect”
Parents of children with Down syndrome have said that the Rotunda needs to examine the message it is giving parents after the master of the maternity hospital, Dr Fergal Malone, said that 95% of babies diagnosed with Down Syndrome in the hospital were aborted. Malone, who was a vocal supporter of legalising abortion, told the […]
A leading oncologist has warned that societies urgently need to focus on finding cancers that were missed while the world was preoccupied with Covid-19. Professor Karol Sikora, who has been an oncologist for 50 years and was formerly the head of the WHO’s cancer program, made the comments this week on Twitter. “If we catch […]
“Timely diagnosis and treatment seriously improves survival chances”
When I was pregnant with my baby girl, Líadán, we were advised at a scan that there might be an issue and sent to Dublin to have her checked out. At 24 weeks gestation, she was diagnosed with Trisomy 18, the same condition that doctors mistakenly believed was the prognosis for Baby Christopher Kiely whose […]