Rebecca O’Malley, the woman who was given a false all-clear for breast cancer and subsequently had to have a mastectomy, has responded to the HSE’s plan to implement recommendations arising from the HIQA report into her case. In a press statement, she states: Yesterday’s highly visible publication of the Implementation Plan by the HSE is [...]
An “elite suppressor” from Baltimore, USA, may reveal the secret to an AIDS vaccine, scientists have reported in the Journal of Virology. The woman, who was infected by her husband (who acquired HIV through IV drug use), naturally suppresses the virus: Tests showed that immune cells known as CD8 T-cells from the wife stalled HIV [...]
Fine Gael Health Spokesperson, Dr James Reilly, who is not at all known for hyperbole, has delivered some rather severe marks to on the health service, and, it seems, general aptitude. These are direct quotes from a press release we received from Deputy Reilly’s office: The Health Minister can only be described as ‘a promising [...]
Dr Michael Maher is using an innovative new procedure at the Mater Private Hospital that slashes radiotherapy treatment times. One of the most innovative new radiotherapy procedures for breast cancer – still in Phase III trials around the globe – is taking place in only one hospital in Ireland, and it’s a private hospital. In [...]
The pill reduces women to mere instrument for the satisfaction of male desires; it can, directly or indirectly, be a cause of infertility, which can cause much heartache especially to women. The pill can also cause congenital abnormalities, including Down’s Syndrome, in offspring of women under 40. It probably leads to increased divorce rates by [...]
Beacon Hospital has been awarded Joint Commission International Accreditation (JCI). The JCI hospital standards are intended to stimulate continuous, systematic and organisation-wide improvement in daily performance and in the outcomes of patient care. Beacon Renal, also located in the Beacon Medical Campus, is the first ambulatory dialysis unit in the world to be awarded a [...]
An increasing number of NCHDs, both Irish and non-EU, are opting to work in Australia and New Zealand as locums, a spokesman for an Irish locum agency told Irish Medical Times. Mr David Van Der Vegt, co-owner of Cork-based Locum Express, said NCHDs working as locums in Ireland are ‘getting sick of the conditions – [...]
It’s not whether Michael Phelps represents an “intermediate form” between today’s human being and tomorrow’s, though if he gets eight golds – which will give him 14 total – we might as well show him to the Creationists as proof of evolution. No, that’s not the question. The question is, can pollution in Beijing hurt [...]
This is a pretty good list from Kaboose.com – exactly the kind of films you can watch when you don’t have the strength to get off the couch. Seems to me that sick and hangover are interchangeable, though Viscera does not recommend a hangover.
Dr Jane Doe from Two Weeks on a Trolley is feeling sick. She’s got two options – go in and make everybody else sick, or stay home and fall out with hospital management. There’s got to be a better way, she says. And there is, just not in Ireland. Thanks to the Biopsy Report for [...]
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