Barbeque season looms, and with or without the appropriate weather, there’s a new ingredient that should grace the grill of every meat-eater with even the remotest interest in health: rosemary. Family doctors may soon be giving cooking tips, if research appearing in one journal passes the taste-test. The Food Safety Consortium at Kansas State University [...]
Crumlin Hospital must reduce the number of patients it treats, as cutbacks ‘across the board’ are instituted to save €7 million by the end of the year. Irish Medical Times has learned that the CEO of the hospital addressed hospital staff last week, informing them of cuts that would take place as a result of [...]
Amid mounting anger from the developer Beacon Medical Group (BMG) concerning the proposed new €160 million Women’s, Children’s and Maternity Hospital at Sandyford, in Dublin, a meeting was held on 26 May between the owners of BMG and Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown Council, at which the group threatened to locate the proposed hospital in another local authority [...]
By now, most of the world has learned via YouTube that when you mix Mentos and Diet Coke, you get an explosion. But a quick glance at some other clips shows that the real problem is when you give human beings video cameras. Like this guy, or this guy. Or this guy.
Ed Madden BL on a recent case in which the Supreme Court considered whether a consultant could validly sign a patient’s renewal order under Section 15 of the Mental Health Act, 2001 In 1998, MM developed a dangerous schizophrenic condition involving various delusions which led him to commit criminal acts. In May of that year, [...]
In a letter to hospital management, doctors in University College Hospital Galway (UCHG) have stated that overcrowding in the hospital’s emergency depart-ment could be resulting in patients’ deaths. The letter states that in April 2008, there was a total of 444 patients on trolleys waiting for an inpatient bed. This is compared to 188 patients [...]
The issue of mobile phone companies putting equipment on hospital buildings is back in the public eye once more, following two planning applications in Cork and Dublin. Late last year, O2 Communications (Ireland) Limited applied to Cork City Council for permission to retain six antennae and two link dishes, as well as other equipment, at [...]
Now that Bertie Ahern has exited stage left, people could be forgiven for expecting inadvertent comedy to disappear from otherwise long-winded and boring debates in the Dáil. But don’t worry—it looks like new Taoiseach Brian Cowen will be equally, or even more, entertaining. Since he stepped into Bertie’s shoes less than two weeks ago, Cowen [...]
A Galway man being treated for multiple sclerosis in Holland cannot return to his home in Ireland because of his pain-killing drugs. Mr Noel McCullagh, originally from Ballinasloe, has been legally prescribed cannabis under Dutch law, but if he returns to Ireland with the drug he has been told he will be arrested. He says [...]
Irish actor Colin Farrell is currently shedding weight for a role. A recent photo snapped in Spain shows an emaciated Farrell with hollowed cheeks, sunken chest and stick-thin legs. It is believed that he shed the weight for his latest role as a Bosnia War photographer in a new film called Triage, which is currently [...]
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