The HSE and Road Safety Authority (RSA) have warned parents and young people to be extra vigilant when taking part in Halloween activities this evening. For my part, I can say that youngsters are far less likely to hurt themselves this year, since they are too busy shooting bottle rockets at me on my way [...]
“When my children were babies, I’d hold them in my arms and watch them drift off peacefully – it was like watching a miracle.” – Neil Epstein, in the Guardian. As an erstwhile and occasional insomniac (I hope the term has not changed to “person with the condition of insomnia” just yet), the only thing [...]
The cessation of acute services at Monaghan General Hospital will result in an impossible burden being placed on Cavan General Hospital in its absence – equivalent in medical admissions to those at St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin, a local GP and campaigner has claimed. “That says it all. We’re going to do St Vincent’s workload [...]
New research in the Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health looks at the effects of working more than 40 on-call hours a month on doctors. The study showed that doctors had a hard time coping with on-call duties while dealing with another risk factor such as heavy drinking, smoking, obesity, and low physical activity. [...]
John McCain may have thrown away the presidency because of a biological imperative in men to forget the future when the encounter the sight of a pretty woman, according to a piece in today’s Washington Post. The author has based her speculation on a 2003 study that showed men were very bad at thinking ahead [...]
A new report commissioned by Dublin City Council has warned that traffic capacity is set to double shortly, while there is no more room for cars in the city centre. The report states that it may be necessary for traffic to be removed from the city to allow the city to function. My first thought: [...]
Crumlin Hospital has published the independent review report of the investigation into the removal of the wrong kidney from patient XY in 2008. That and a press statement can be found on the hospital’s website.
“I was interested in the liberatory, activist aspects of it – to do for neurologically different people what feminism and gay rights had done for their constituencies.” This is a quote from an Australian woman, Judy Singer, who first put forward the term neurodiversity as a way of presenting autism as an alternative way of [...]
A New York Magazine survey of 50 top doctors – so it’s a year old, so what? – found that more than half (28) of those surveyed said doctors have God complexes, but when asked if they had God complexes themselves, only two answered “Yes.” So do doctors have bad perceptions of each other, or [...]
Dara Gantly reports on a cross-border initiative on renal care that has won a major European award. A cross-border initiative aimed at improving the care of kidney patients in rural areas in Ireland and Northern Ireland has received a major European award for excellence. h4. Nephrological care The European Health Forum Award for 2008 has [...]
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