A German haematologist may have found a potential cure for AIDS, though the cost and complexity of the treatment makes unlikely it will be tried on a large scale. The breakthrough appears to be that Dr. Hütter, a soft-spoken hematologist who isn’t an AIDS specialist, deliberately replaced the patient’s bone marrow cells with those from [...]
Unprotected Text – a second-year med student and blogger in the UK – offers a lively and spirited critique of homeopathy, which he says has no place in medical school. “I personally believe that homeopathy is by and large a pile of shit,” he writes. Is homeopathy breaking into traditional medical training under the guise [...]
Beacon Medical Group’s appeal against refusal of permission for a €160m maternity hospital in Dublin’s Sandyford has been rejected by An Bord Pleanala, Irish Medical Times has learned. Constraints on water and drainage were cited as reasons for rejecting the appeal, along with deficiencies in transport facilities. The firm applied for planning permission for the [...]
The only news anyone is talking about today is the Irish Times poll that shows support for the Taoiseach and Fianna Fáil in tatters. It’s no surprise to see the popularity of a sometimes-perceived-as-irascible Taoiseach plummet during a recession. What does surprise me (as a foreigner) is that, as Fianna Fáil has lost support, Fine [...]
Just 108 additional and 98 replacement consultant posts have been approved since the Government came into office in June 2007, well short of the 2,000 extra consultants promised in its Programme for Government. According to figures released by the National Hospitals Office (NHO) for 1 June 2007 to 1 October 2008, a total of 206 [...]
A decision on the possible relocation of the limb-fitting clinic at St Finbarr’s Hospital to an alternative site in Cork city could be made by the end of the month. Minister of State at the Department of the Environment Deputy Michael Finneran confirmed that as part of the ongoing reconfiguration of services within the Southern [...]
Things are getting better in the Irish health service. Ireland climbed one spot in the Euro Health Consumer Index (download the .pdf), from 16 to 15. According to the latest rankings, there have been significant improvements in waiting times over the last few years with Ireland scoring highly for waiting times for major not-acute operations [...]
Here’s a clip of a Thought Leader from Portland Oregon who’s got the secret to business success. Health service not doing to well? Need more beds? Need more consultants, staff, etc.? Nope, you need a Red Ball. And you need to play with it. You don’t have a red ball? How do you get up [...]
The co-located hospital at Beaumont in Dublin has been granted final planning permission, with conditions, following an appeal to An Bord Pleanála, Irish Medical Times has learned. Construction work is due to commence in the first part of next year. The appellant, Socialist Party Leader Joe Higgins, said he was “very disappointed. This will allow [...]
Alcohol reduces brain volume, IMT has reported in its Clinical Times section. “There was a significant negative linear relationship between alcohol consumption and total cerebral brain volume,” the researchers reported. While I’ve yet to see evidence that reduced brain volume has an effect on brain function, it’s fair to say that 15 years ago, before [...]
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