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The Irish Medical Times Blog: March 2009

Trinity professor and Tallaght consultant honoured by University of Athens

Professor Colm Ó’Moráin, Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences Trinity College and Professor of Medicine Tallaght Hospital, was awarded a Doctorate in Science honoris causa by the University of Athens. He is the Chairman of the Public Affairs... Read more

Saving money in healthcare: doing less and doing it better

A health system in the US has bucked the trend of making money by offering more services, the Washington Post has reported. Geisinger Health System tries to show that you can make money by offering elective heart surgery for a... Read more

Decision to postpone CF unit at St Vincent's should be reversed - CF Association

There is enough money to build the much-needed new ward at St Vincent's that will house a 30-bed isolation unit for CF patients – if CF is prioritised, and if the Government takes into account dropping prices of building costs,... Read more

Irish Heart Foundation launches CPR initiative

The Irish Heart Foundation has launchd a new CPR campaign for Happy Heart Weekend, May 14 - 16, 2009. The national heart health charity’s aim is to improve the national survival rate from sudden cardiac arrest by training 80,000... Read more

MEP goes after rogue doctors by proposing EU-wide medical registry

Ireland South MEP Colm Burke wants to amend the Cross-border Healthcare Directive to stop medical professionals who have been struck off the medical register in one member state of the EU from practicing elsewhere. MEP Burke's amendment reads: "There... Read more

Grainne and Sile Seoige help support St Patricks Hospital

Grainne Seoige and Sile Seoige are supporting St Patricks University Hospital, Dublin in the Flora Women’s Mini-Marathon on June 1st. Funds raised for the hospital will go towards a wide range of new and much-needed mental health services including... Read more

New Clinical Director for Waterford Regional appointed

The HSE has appointed Dr Rob Landers to the position of Clinical Director for Waterford Regional Hospital. Dr Rob Landers views his priorities in his role as Clinical Director to be: “To develop a robust clinical governance structure at... Read more

Ireland ranks poorly on European lung cancer report

One of the country's foremost lung cancer experts, Prof Des Carney, says a new report shows that 88 per cent of all Irish patients are diagnosed with lung cancer once they are in the late stages of the disease.... Read more

Crowds protest closure of Bantry General

Just under a thousand people protested Saturday at the closing of Bantry General Hospital. Photo: Tony McElhinney... Read more

Dr John Hillery appointed to pharmacy regulator

Dr John Hillery, the former President of the Medical Council, has been appointed by the Minister for Health and Children, Mary Harney, to the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (PSI) - the industry watchdog of pharmacists and pharmacies... Read more

HSE launches new consent guidelines for hospitals in the South East

Healthcare professionals in hospitals in the South East have new guidelines to follow when obtaining consent for examination or treatment from patients in hospital. Guidelines for Consent to Clinical Examination and/or Treatment can be downloaded here. An example of its... Read more

Medical Schools still heavily reliant on funding from non-EU students

This is what the Medical Council's Head of Education and Training, Dr Anne Keane, has to say about the new Review of Medical Schools: In 2007, substantial progress is evident in the five medical schools that were involved in the... Read more

Surely the iPhone can revolutionise your work in medicine if...

... the Mentalists can do this with them.... Read more

Bionic eye gives man back his sight

Ron, 73, lost his sight 30 years ago from retinitis pigmentosa. He was fitted with a bionic eye seven months ago at London's Moorfield's eye hospital, and he "can now follow white lines on the road, and even sort socks,... Read more

Groundbreaking surgery: girl has six organs removed to remove tumor

Doctors in New York removed the the small and large intestine, liver, spleen, pancreas and stomach of a seven-year-old girl to remove a tumor the size of a tennis ball, Medical News Today has reported. The procedure, which took place... Read more

Surgical castration for sex offenders under debate

"More countries in Europe are considering mandating or allowing chemical castration for violent sex offenders. There is intense debate over whose rights take precedence: those of violent sex offenders, who could be subjected to a punishment that many consider cruel,... Read more

A website for dads in Ireland - will men read it?

Dad.ie is a website that was "conceived" in a "room filled with leaflets, posters and magazines all aimed at mums-to-be" - according to site founder and editor David Caren. The editorial picks at the moment cover issues like the... Read more

Yoga for rockers. And yoga for people who use rockers.

Hot yoga. Cold yoga. Stone yoga. Yoga for moms and babies and yoga for guys too stiff to stretch. Even as the economy twists us all in knots, this mind-body discipline created millennia ago in India appears to be thriving,... Read more

Distracted Kindergarteners 'become gamblers'

Children rated as impulsive by their kindergarten teachers appear more likely to begin gambling behaviors like playing cards or placing bets before they hit middle school, Canadian researchers have said. The study in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine... Read more