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The Irish Medical Times Blog: December 2007

I like smoking in my car!

Sometimes journalists just hit the nail on the head. Earlier this year, Professor Luke Clancy, of the anti smoking organisation, ASH, called for smoking in cars to be banned. Following this, there were those who wholeheartedly agreed with him, and... Read more

Kick away the MRSA with stress balls

Using squeezy stressballs to kill MRSA is not as crazy as it sounds according to a Cumbria-based manufacturer who claims to be both sane and sober. Urofoam www.urofoam.co.uk has launched a new collection which is coated with an NHS-approved anti-bacterial... Read more

Try something new at Sainsbury’s

Sainsbury’s – who through their spokesperson (should that be smokesperson?) Jamie Oliver are always urging us to ‘try something new’ are now funding a study undertaken by MS Society in the UK www.mssociety.org.uk that examines the use of a chemical... Read more

Belfast's miserable Christmas thieves

Thieves who broke into Father Christmas's grotto in Belfast last weekend, practically snatched money away from terminally ill children. Some genius or geniuses decided it would be great craic to break into Santa's workshop, just outside Belfast City Hall, and... Read more

You can't spell success without UCC

Reading the medical press is an education in itself on many levels - there are some interesting columnists out there. One of them is UCC graduate Dr John Ryan who now lives in Boston. In his latest column for one... Read more

Bono, Bikes and Barry O'Brien

One of the issues brought up in the previous entry by Randall Chipkar http://www.motorcyclecancer.com — aside from the fact that motorbikes may give you cancer - is the question "Is it a paradox that thousands of motorcycle riders participate in... Read more