A South African woman who has been detained in hospital after refusing to accept treatment for a suspected case of drug resistant tuberculosis has been detained lawfully, the High Court has ruled. Mr Justice John Edwards said this was one of those rare cases where an order to detain a person in order to protect [...]
Revenue received from the car park at Beaumont Hospital over the past four years has exceeded €3 million. Current annual income from the facility up to September stands at €617,384, with last year’s revenue amounting to €819,579. For the years 2005 and 2006, the income generated was €811,356 and €794,860 respectively. The controversial car park [...]
Energy fiend has a helpful death calculator for you: how man of a certain type of drink would it take to kill you, based on your weight. It would take about 170 espressos to kill me. That makes me feel a lot better about the four cups of coffee I’ve had in the last three [...]
A number of buildings – including listed buildings costing €1.5 million — at our Lady’s Hospital in Cork, have lain idle and have been vandalised, the report of the Public Accounts Committee reveals. Our Lady’s Hospital (grey building) closed in 1991, and was sold. Our Lady’s Hospital Complex comprised the Our Lady’s Hospital building along [...]
Construction on a new mental health unit at Letterkenny General Hospital could commence as early as March next year, the Health Service Executive (HSE) has confirmed. The proposed-built, single-story, 1,790 square-metre facility is being funded via the National Development Plan, and contractors have until December 5 to express their interest in the development. Demolition of [...]
Over €4 million is to be paid by the Health Service Executive to a company that will assist with involuntary admissions of psychiatric patients. The HSE recently announced that the contract, worth €4,128,326, was awarded to Kalbay Limited of Santa Maria House in Naas, County Kildare. The documentation announcing the award did not state for [...]
Mexico Medical Student, a long-running and popular medical blog, defends the right of doctors to publish opinions and musings outside the context of peer-reviewed scholarship. Despite calls by some organisations for stricter rules about blogging ethics, a Medblogger Code has already been drawn up – a code of ethics voluntarily created by medical bloggers themselves. [...]
Tallaght Hospital (AMNCH) launched a new initiative when it used a robot to assist in removing a large colon cancer tumour from a patient. This was the first time that a patient in Ireland had such a major colorectal procedure performed using the VIKY robotic system. Speaking about the event, Mr Paul Neary, Consultant Laparoscopic [...]
Bacteria that can cause life-threatening Legionnaires Disease has been discovered in the water supply at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda. Legionella was discovered in a ‘random routine sampling of water outlets’ at the hospital and an information session for all staff was held last Monday. No patients or staff have acquired legionnaires disease [...]
An American study has found that children who live in areas with heavy precipitation when they are under three years of age have higher rates of autism, as IMT has reported in Clinical Times. The study was published in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. While debates continue about the possible trigger effects of [...]
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