A Lancet editorial has urged delegates at the first-ever Global Forum on Human Resources for Health convened by the Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA) in Kampala, Uganda, to seek ambitious goals. The issue has taken a close look at health inequities between rich and poor countries. The editorial discusses the “haemorrhage of health professionals from [...]
Scientists are working on ways to help train people to reach orgasm by letting them observe their own brain patterns, the Los Angeles Times is reporting. A pair of scientists also think they have discovered why people with severed spinal cords can experience orgasms: Rutgers University’s Komisaruk and retired Rutgers professor Beverly Whipple, coauthor of [...]
This is according to Evolutionary Psychology. So what else is new?
The UK’s Health Secretary is trying to reverse the sick-note culture, according to the Independent (UK). Alan Johnson said: “The evidence shows that far from being bad for health, work is generally good for people’s health. In fact staying in work or returning to work is often in a patient’s best interests. Meanwhile, Dr John [...]
If you live on a street with lots of nighttime illumination, you are more likely to get breast cancer, the Washington Post is reporting. By overlaying satellite images of earth onto cancer registries, researchers discovered that women who “live in neighborhoods with large amounts of nighttime illumination are more likely to get breast cancer than [...]
Over fifty consultants and GPs in the northeast — angry at the Health Service Executive’s (HSE) proposed service cutbacks in the area — have formed an advocacy group and are demanding the HSE consult with them over any changes in the region that will impact on patient care. At a meeting in Monaghan last week [...]
More than half of all new entrants to the Irish nursing register in 2006 came from outside the European Union (EU), according to a new study from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). These nurses also did not intend to stay in Ireland on a long-term basis, the study found. Over half of [...]
The HSE has asked Deputy Joe Costello (Labour Dublin Central) to stop “unauthorised contact” with Mater Hospital patients, where he protests every Saturday over hospital conditions. “I received a letter from Phil O’Neill, HSE Head of Operations and Clinical Support,” Deputy Costello told the Dáil. “It stated: ‘I am writing to express the hospital’s concerns [...]
Greed impacts on our health. No. Not over eating or over drinking. Private developers. Look at the myriad of new estates that have sprung up all over Ireland in the last 10 years of so, most of which have pretentious bloody names and market themselves as family orientated. But how many of them do you [...]
It looks like an agreement on the new consultant contract may be headed for another protracted and excruciating standoff, as the Secretary General of the IHCA and the Chief Executive of the HSE-EA sent some rather nasty letters to each other decrying the lack of progress on a detailed document that, presumably, consultants can accept [...]
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