Overview

Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is frequently diagnosed in young people within their reproductive years thereby having a significant impact on family planning decisions. The diagnosis of IBD in a young woman may have implications on their fertility, future pregnancies, modes of delivery and the...

Long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) is the term to describe the types of contraception which involve very little user effort and, as a result, have been shown to be the most effective options for women who really want to avoid pregnancy.

In Ireland most women opt for condoms or the combined oral...

Treating any cancer in pregnancy is complex and a carefully tailored treatment plan is required at all stages, with consideration to the needs of the mother and risks to the foetus. 

Every case of pregnancy-associated cancer should be discussed in multidisciplinary team meetings for series and sequence of...

Case study 1

A 62-year-old woman was recalled by the BreastCheck screening programme due to a suspicious 0.9cm abnormality in her right breast on a screening mammogram

This abnormality was not palpable on clinical examination. She had a background history of hypertension only. She had no family history...

Diabetes mellitus is an umbrella term for a group of metabolic disorders that are universally associated with hyperglycaemia and affect one in every six pregnancies.¹ Pre-gestational diabetes refers to diabetes diagnosed prior to pregnancy and includes type 1 and type 2 diabetes, while gestational diabetes...