A new state-of-the-art, 64-slice computed tomography (CT) scanner has been purchased for Cork University Hospital (CUH). The scanner cost €1.1 million and will be used to scan patients with cancer, cardiac and neurology-related illnesses. The main advantage of the new scanner is the speed at which an examination can be completed, giving better quality images [...]
Next year, women could buy a test to determine whether they have the gene mutations that increase the risk of breast cancer for less than the price of, oh, a pregnancy test.
Many patients do not understand their ED care or their discharge instructions, and most of them don’t even know they lack that understanding, and show inappropriate confidence in their comprehension and recall, according to a study in the Annals of Emergency Medicine. An article in the New York Times about the research highlights one rather [...]
The introduction of the ‘Teaghlach’ model of care at Clonakility Community Hospital has seen the hospital being rewarded with additional funding of D50,000, which is part of the HSE’s Innovation Fund 2008. The new approach to caring for patients will see the hospital receive a total of €100,000 over the next two years. The Innovation [...]
The average number of patients seen per day at the Hermitage Medical Clinic’s Emergency Department (ED) is between ten and 15 and since opening on May 26, up to 600 patients have been seen there. Up to 150 of these patients have been admitted into the hospital, in Lucan, Co. Dublin. The ED was officially [...]
From Waterproofing Your Child to Hot Topics In Urology, the Diagram Prize celebrates the oddest of odd book titles. Medical research has provided one of the richest seams over the years: A Pictorial Book Of Tongue Coatings, A Colour Atlas of Posterior Chamber Implants, or Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: A Personal View. This country has made [...]
Ken Walters, a man who thought his stroke was ‘yet another wretched episode in the disaster that was my life’, discovered that it gave him new abilities – and a compulsion to create art. According to Mr Walters, he had never so much as doodled in his life. What does this say to the nature/nurture [...]
An Irish judge has thrown out drugged driving charges against a young driver, ruling that the presence of marijuana in his urine did not mean he was necessarily “stoned out of his mind.” Question is, if US states that have “zero tolerance” drugged driving laws operate on the same standard criticized by an Irish judge, [...]
A psychiatrist in Britain argues that we are already using drugs as a means of improving our future conduct: a subtle form of moral assistance. He writes that patients use drugs for prosocial reasons – hoping to do the right thing. I can’t help but wonder how nightmarishly tepid a world would be of homologous [...]
New research published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry has claimed a strong link between cannabis use and the onset of psychosis at a younger age. The Results: Regarding the effect of cannabis use, a significant gradual reduction on age at onset was found as dependence on cannabis increased, consisting in a decrement of 7, [...]
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