Anyone who thought they were alone in being half incredulous, half severely annoyed over the language used by the HSE in their press releases and statements can relax—IMO CEO George McNeice received a round of applause today at the AGM for joking about it. In his annual address to delegates here in Kilarney, George spoke [...]
Too few shops and licensed premises refuse to sell cigarettes to under-18s, a report by the Office of Tobacco Control has revealed. According to the OTC, almost one in two shop retailers and two in three licensed premises were willing to sell cigarettes to children under 18. The problem is one of an ID standard, [...]
The first rapid blood-test for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) but, as yet, it cannot be confirmed when the test will be available in Ireland. Traditional microbiology-based cultures require 24-72 hours to return results, but the BD GeneOhm Staph SR test can detect both MRSA and [...]
New research has found that health professionals working in antenatal care should better prepare women for labour and that antenatal programmes must ‘get real’, since most women are ill-prepared for the experience. A Newcastle University team studied all published literature on women’s expectations and experiences of pain and pain relief during labour, and found a [...]
A new study has found that having a large belly in middle age increases the risk of developing dementia in old age. Researchers from the US and Sweden showed that overweight and obese people with large bellies have double or triple the risk of having dementia later (Medical News Today). This is not the first [...]
Demi Moore on the act of using blood-sucking leeches as a detox therapy: “You watch it swell up on your blood… then when it’s super drunk it just kind of rolls over like it is stumbling out of the bar.” I would like to be the first to slap myself on the forehead and sigh.
The Health Service Executive has confirmed that waiting times for routine procedures at the Cork University Maternity Hospital are up to a year, while women who need urgent operations have to wait a month and a half. Mr Gerry O’Dwyer, Hospital Network Manager for the Southern Hospitals, told that area’s Regional Health Forum recently that [...]
A new cardiothoracic surgery unit at University College Hospital Galway is still waiting for more than half the number of nurses it requires, after assurances by the HSE two months ago that the unit would be commissioned, the Director of the unit told Irish Medical Times. “The volume [of cardiac surgery cases] is building, but [...]
Greg Baxter reports on the success of the acute medical admissions unit at St James’s Hospital, which has had a major impact in reducing mortality rates. The message, when you boil down all the facts and figures, is that 3,000 deaths of acute medical patients annually, across the country, are avoidable. The impact of the [...]
Chantal Sebire, the French woman with a very rare from of cancer whose court application for an assisted suicide was rejected, has been found dead in her home. The case highlights the necessity for continued debate on euthanasia and ‘mercy killing’. Such a debate has been ongoing in France since the case came to light. [...]
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