Patients in the UK won’t get to completely eliminate hospitals, but now their votes will mean fines and pay rewards, following the publication of a report, Higher Quality for All, by the Health Minister, Lord Darzi. “For the first time, patients’ own assessments of the success of their treatments and the quality of their experiences [...]
Fertility experts in the UK have recommended that a one-egg approach to IVF be used in order to reduce multiple births, the BBC is reporting.
Something to distract you on the weekend. Did you know: Intelligence and myopia go together because the growth of both the brain and the eyes has a common genetic base. Crucially, the genes responsible for myopia have to be turned on by an environmental trigger. In the distant past, that trigger was not around, so [...]
There were 1,236 fewer people in possession of a full medical card in Co Donegal on June 1 this year compared to a month earlier. That is a fact. The Primary Care Reimbursement Service (PCRS) said so. It should know, as it is part of the HSE, and it is the PCRS’s job to collate [...]
Did you know, for instance, that a pilot must wait four hours after taking Viagra before flying a plane? Take the Discover Health Sexual Health Quiz and learn what percentage of married women have sex two or more times a week.
The creation of new drugs for pregnant women must not be left to the free market, the editors of PLOS Medicine write. An “analysis of the drug pipeline for obstetric disease between 1980 and 2007 found just 17 new drugs undergoing evaluation between the preclinical and preregistration phases. This number compares with 660 new drugs [...]
It would be more cost-effective for Ireland to knock down its existing high-acuity hospitals and re-build them according to evidence-based design, than to attempt to renovate them, according to an expert in hospital design. Speaking in Dublin last week, Prof Roger Ulrich, Director of the Center for Health Systems and Design in Texas A&M University, [...]
The State could be facing up to 1,500 legal claims, and a bill of €500 million, from people with MRSA, according to the State Claims Agency. Ciarán Breen, director of the Agency, has told the Dáil Public Accounts Committee that they are currently dealing with around 100 claims relating to MRSA. He said that if [...]
The HSE is going ahead with implementation of an unpublished report on medical laboratory restructuring, it has been revealed. Last week an organisation representing laboratory scientists — the Academy of Medical Laboratory Scientists (AMLS) – accused the HSE of implementing the report ‘by stealth’ and called upon the HSE to state its intentions regarding the [...]
Don’t hide healthy vegetables (like pureed spinach, broccoli, etc) in kid-friendly foods like peanut butter in order to get children to eat healthier. It could make them less likely to eat greens as an adult.
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