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Covidien, a leading global provider of healthcare products, celebrated its 20th anniversary in Galway this week.

The good news story of 250 new jobs to be created at Hollister ULC in Ballina, plus an additional 200 short-term jobs for construction workers over the next year, has been warmly welcomed this week. The US based healthcare company is investing €65 million in expanding its current manufacturing facility in Ballina with an additional 75,000 square feet by end of 2011.

KIlkenny-based Empower Training remains in limbo as the State accreditation body FETAC analyses a report from the centre on alleged irregularities at the centre.

FETAC, the statutory awarding body for further education and training in Ireland, has confirmed that Empower Training, based in Kilkenny, has had access to FETAC accreditation suspended following an investigation into quality issues at the centre.

The Health Information and Quality Authority is calling for feedback from the people of Mayo on proposed new national standards for safer and better healthcare.

A leading local trade union official says he is hopeful that the powerful campaign mounted by the public against the proposed health cuts may influence the HSE West when it wields its axe today (Thursday).

A Corrandulla man who was recently diagnosed with diabetes is calling on the HSE West to provide a foot screening programme and check-up service for sufferers in the region. The condition affects one in 20 people.

We are Irish hearing aid specialists, with over ten years in business in the Leinster area, with qualified hearing aid audiologists.

With 80 per cent of the new unemployed in the last two years under 30, and over 1,000 patients waiting more than three months for a colonoscopy, Cllr Peter Burke believes the latest figures represent “the human cost of failed Government policies” and that “the savage cuts to healthcare are now having a direct impact on patients”.

Men are four times more likely than women to phone in sick due to work related stress a survey has revealed.