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The Irish Medical Times Blog: August 2007

Flip-flop fears

Beware flip-flops and sandals! Never mind the faux pas of wearing socks with these articles of clothing, there is more trouble afoot in the land of casual footwear.... Read more

Four wheels good, two wheels bad!

Call me cynical but something tells me that more money needs to be invested in the ambulance service in Derry.... Read more

Warning to tourists: avoid the hospitals (and the shops) but the pubs are great

Recently I was looking through the Lonely Planet's (aka the wanderer's Bible) newly updated guide to Ireland. The difference between the Lonely Planet books and many other travel guides is how they are not written by staff writers, or... Read more

Things to avoid at a beer festival: A. Being eaten by a bear

We, the authors of Viscera, have been slow to accept the argument that alcohol (even the tiniest amount, we're told, amounts to binge drinking), is the cause for all the world's evil.... Read more

An onion-based tonic

'Grandma still feels draft' Is the world getting you down? Are you fed up with the eejits, ineptitude, rudeness, exploitation, etc that can confront you on a daily basis in today's society. Well let me point you to a... Read more

OTC child medication debate gets louder

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an advisory to all parents to stop giving cough and cold medication to children under two years of age. The extreme step has been taken so the FDA can reassess... Read more

Drink or drugs? That is the question.

With a sore throat that was shooting pain into my left ear, I went out last Friday night to have a few pints of porter (five, to be exact) at the local GAA club where there was a bit... Read more

Scalpel! Suction! Renoir!

Photo courtesy of Julie70 Forget the Museum of Modern Art in Kilmainham or the National Gallery in Dublin city centre. If you want to appreciate art go to the Ulster Hospital in east Belfast. Come to think of it,... Read more

Popty Ping

Is the world going mad? This may or may not be true, but I was informed by a friend who has an eight-year-old son that his child is being taught a hybrid form of Irish. No longer it appears is... Read more

It's time to stigmatise fat people

Here's a good read in Slate about how perfectly legitimate healthcare studies get ruined by politically correct researchers too timid to back up the obvious conclusions of their findings. Research in the New England Journal of Medicine found that... Read more

Help Eddie Gault now!

Would you expect to be diagnosed with bowel cancer and then sent home to wait for an appointment to see a consultant, with only paracetamol to ease your pain? Believe it or not, that is the disgraceful situation in... Read more