This shift in the toads’ behaviour coincided with disruptions in the ionosphere, the uppermost electromagnetic layer of the earth’s atmosphere, which were detected using very low frequency (VLF) radio sounding.
Tallaght poorly served by scant GP services
March 31, 2010 By 1 Comment
Two representatives of the Tallaght Hospital Action Group have met the Chairman of the Tallaght Hospital inquiry, Dr Maurice Hayes, to discuss the review into the delay in reporting radiological examinations and the management of GP referral letters at the hospital. Triona Murphy, chairperson of the Action Group, and Jim Lawlor claimed that the immediate [...]
Framework on palliative care for dementia close
March 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment
An innovative action research project was launched on March 19 on the palliative care needs of people with nonmalignant diseases. Following a national competition, Clare Mental Health Services for Older People secured €100,000 in research funding over two years to develop a national framework for palliative care in dementia. The part-time research project officer, Marissa [...]
Mater Private joins Health Link project
March 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The Mater Private Hospital has become the first private hospital in Ireland to join the online national Health Link project, which is a web-based messaging service. The software transmits patient information including results and referrals securely over the internet. Over 1,800 GPs across the country use Health Link. The programme improves efficiency by reducing the [...]
Chairman appointment at Coombe Hospital
March 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The Coombe Women’s and Infants University Hospital (CWIUH) has announced the appointment of Aidan O’Hogan as Chairman of the Hospital Board of Directors. O’Hogan joined the board of CWIUH in 2007. He was Managing Director of Hamilton Osborne King auctioneers from 1995 to 2003, and thereafter held the position of chairman of the company until [...]
Irish doctors discuss environmental health hazards
March 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The Irish Doctors’ Environmental Association will hold a public meeting on Saturday, April 17 at Trinity College Dublin, Ui Chadhain Lecture Theatre, Arts Building. At noon, Olle Johannson, Associate Professor at the Karolinska Institute will discuss the heath hazards of electromagnetic radiation (i.e. wireless technologies and mobile phones). Download the full programme.
Highlights from a week of IMT’s opinion, analysis, letters and feature articles
March 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Does the freedom to die enhance lives? Shane Leavy reports on a recent talk in Ireland by the controversial Australian Dr Philip Nitschke, who took part in the world’s first legal, physician-assisted suicide in 1996. Who decides the health agenda? Shocked by the scandal at Tallaght, Dr Ruairi Hanley laments that our healthcare priorities seem [...]
Hospice foundation to fund first paediatric palliative care consultant
March 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
A national development committee for children’s palliative care should be established, the Irish Hospice Foundation has warned. There are an estimated 1,400 children with life-limiting conditions in Ireland and about 350 deaths every year, the majority of which in the first year of life. The Foundation has committed itself to funding Ireland’s first paediatric palliative [...]
Move on children’s hospital
March 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The CEO of the HSE has been requested by Health Minister Mary Harney to propose an outline governance structure for the operation of the new national children’s hospital. Prof Brendan Drumm informed the Board of the Executive that the Minister is anxious that such a governance structure be established ‘well in advance’ of the transition [...]
Crumlin eating disorder unit gets green light
March 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment
An eating disorder unit is to be set up in the new National Paediatric Hospital for six to eight inpatient children, Prof Fiona McNicholas, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at Crumlin Hospital, told the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health recently. A priority would be to cluster some beds in Crumlin Hospital, which could become the interim [...]
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