On today’s Irish Times website there’s an article saying that the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) has suggested that children who develop swine flu symptoms should be given a face mask by their parents to help prevent them spreading the virus to other family members. Now, if I had to put a face mask on [...]
Legislation banning the use of sunbeds for people under 18 is long overdue, and Taoiseach Brian Cowen could have done something about it as Minister for Health, according to Alan Shatter TD, FG Spokesperson on Children. From Shatter’s FG press office: “Ten years ago, in April 1999, I tabled a Dáil Question to the then [...]
Become a motorcycle god while making money for Temple Street Children’s Hospital, or just simply donate some money to a good cause – that’s the message from the “Irish 66ers” – a motorcycle good-stuff gang who journeys down the mother of all roads every two years. They’ve raised €1.5 million euro on our four previous [...]
No child under the age of 18 will ever be admitted to an adult inpatient psychiatric care unit – outside of exceptional cases – after December 2011, the Mental Health Commission announced today (August 27). The Code of Practice under the Mental Health Act 2001 has been amended to end the admission of children to [...]
Newcross Healthcare Solutions have developed a game called Emergency Surgery. It’s a rather silly time waster that has absolutely no benefit to anyone who is not excessively bored. Yet, Newcross has done something rather deviant and made it an effective social networking information gathering drone. They’ve made it a Facebook app. Deviant is the wrong [...]
The expert in charge of Ireland’s Cancer Control Programme has said he would like to remain in the country and continue his work after his contract finishes at the end of the year. Professor Tom Keane said Ireland was still a very big part of his life and he would like to stay on. “I [...]
Opposition from vested interests was the greatest challenge to implementing the Cancer Strategy, Health Minister Mary Harney told a major international cancer conference today (August 24). “Very often people see the losses for a particular institution and do not see the gains for the patients we are trying to deliver a better outcome for.” Speaking [...]
Watch this interesting video about Kristen Murphy, a 38-year-old medical student in the US (studying to become a geriatrician) – who lived as a resident in a nursing home in order to better understand needs of the elderly.
Effective immunisation for a pandemic occurs when enough people get the jab and create a “herd immunity” in a community. New research from the Emerging Health Threats Journal argues that alternative health practitioners are key in creating herd immunity – since parents known to favour alternative medicine were particularly opposed to vaccination. They believe that [...]
The Beacon Hospital will be represented at the premiere LIVESTRONG Global Cancer Summit in Dublin, next week (August 24-26), a spokesperson has announced. The Summit is the start of the LIVESTRONG Global Cancer Campaign, an effort of the Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF). From the press release: Beacon Hospital is looking forward to participating in the [...]
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