Professor Neil Greenberg, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London By Aoife Connors Emergency departments may be more stressful for doctors and worse for their mental health than war zones in Iraq are for soldiers, new research has suggested. UK army troops deployed to Iraq have described their overall health as ‘good, very good or excellent’ [...]
ProPublica, an independent, non-profit US news service that produces investigative journalism, has published a searchable database of doctors who have taken payments from seven drug companies in the past two years for acting as speakers at pharmaceutical events. The seven companies who have released the information include: Eli Lilly, GSK, AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Merck, Johnson & [...]
A recent study on ‘Alcohol and Drug Use’ amongst students attending the University College Cork (UCC) student health centre has found that more than 98 per cent had begun drinking alcohol by the age of 15.9 years. The aim of the study was to determine the alcohol and drug use, and associated consequences, amongst third level [...]
“Telemedicine for stroke thrombolysis was a radical step for both my personal and professional life. In addition, it showed me how telemedicine could facilitate social networking of a nature totally different to that commonly imagined.” Prof Desmond O’Neill, consultant physician in geriatric and stroke medicine, writing on ‘Social networking, telemedicine, and stroke’ in the BMJ Group Blogs [...]
The Medical Council, which has recently taken it upon itself to be more open as it strives to enhance accountability in its statutory role to protect patients, has just developed a new initiative designed to empower younger, more tech savvy patients — its first videocast. The videocast, which went online last week, features Medical Council [...]
Mammography screening may cut breast cancer death rates by 26 per cent amongst women affected in their 40s. The study, published online in the journal Cancer, co-authored by Dr Stephen Duffy, an Epidemiologist at the University of London, and Dr Laszlo Tabar, Professor of Radiology at the University of Uppsala School of Medicine in Sweden, [...]
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