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The Irish Medical Times Blog: August 2009

I wonder if some town hall meetings might help educate the public about H1N1

On today's Irish Times website there's an article saying that the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) has suggested that children who develop swine flu symptoms should be given a face mask by their parents to help prevent them spreading the... Read more

FG Spokesperson on Children accuses Cowen of inaction on sunbeds in 1999

Legislation banning the use of sunbeds for people under 18 is long overdue, and Taoiseach Brian Cowen could have done something about it as Minister for Health, according to Alan Shatter TD, FG Spokesperson on Children. From Shatter's FG press... Read more

Temple Street charity bike gang to hit Route 66 again in 2010

Become a motorcycle god while making money for Temple Street Children’s Hospital, or just simply donate some money to a good cause – that’s the message from the “Irish 66ers” – a motorcycle good-stuff gang who journeys down the... Read more

Play an infuriating game while you have ten minutes free

Newcross Healthcare Solutions have developed a game called Emergency Surgery. It's a rather silly time waster that has absolutely no benefit to anyone who is not excessively bored. Yet, Newcross has done something rather deviant and made it an effective... Read more

Programme in US puts med students in nursing homes

Watch this interesting video about Kristen Murphy, a 38-year-old medical student in the US (studying to become a geriatrician) - who lived as a resident in a nursing home in order to better understand needs of the elderly.... Read more

More on swine flu: Do you know what ‘herd immunity’ is?

Effective immunisation for a pandemic occurs when enough people get the jab and create a “herd immunity” in a community. New research from the Emerging Health Threats Journal argues that alternative health practitioners are key in creating herd immunity... Read more

Beacon Hospital to participate at a Lance Armstrong Foundation event in Dublin

The Beacon Hospital will be represented at the premiere LIVESTRONG Global Cancer Summit in Dublin, next week (August 24-26), a spokesperson has announced. The Summit is the start of the LIVESTRONG Global Cancer Campaign, an effort of the Lance Armstrong... Read more

Futuristic European brain stimulation project could have therapeutic applications for neurology

A consortium of European academic institutions and research groups are working on a four-year project to study and develop advanced, non-invasive computer-to-brain stimulation technology. We will probe the limits of non-invasive computer-to-brain interfaces by carrying out research using improved... Read more

Irish people are using the web to get quality information and updates on swine flu

The website of the Health Protection Surveillance Centre has seen the number of weekly visitors increase by 300 per cent since the WHO declared the Swine flu outbreak a pandemic. The site typically got 5,000 or 6,000 unique visitors every... Read more

The IMT photo gallery is up and running again

The world-famous IMT Photo Galley is back! So if you have some time and want to take a look at which colleagues are attending which conferences, or who's winning prizes, or giving speeches, click on the link above, or click... Read more

North Tipperary ambulance drivers to start strike on August 19

Emergency ambulance services in Nenagh, Thurles, and Roscrea will continue, but no other ambulance services, starting on August 19, according to SIPTU, which is representing ambulance drivers in a dispute with management. What’s going on? Here’s the statement from SIPTU:... Read more

Controversy over cancer stem cells and potential new therapies

From the New York Times: Many researchers believe that tumor growth is driven by cancerous stem cells that, for reasons not understood, are highly resistant to standard treatments. Chemotherapy agents may kill off 99 percent of cells in a tumor,... Read more

Book launch for former healthcare columnist Dr Juliet Bressan

Dr Juliet Bressan is launching her new novel, Entanglement (Poolbeg Press), this evening (August 13) in Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, Dublin 1, at 6:30 p.m.... Read more

Who cares if Professor Stephen Hawking lives or dies?

An editorial on Investor's Business Daily argued that the NHS would consider Stephen Hawking's life "worthless." The editorial was changed to reflect the fact that Hawking actually lived in the UK and received treatment under the NHS. The Guardian... Read more

Vatican begins to stockpile black eldeberry to combat swine flu

The folks at Black Eldeberry want you to know that the Vatican has ordered triple the amount of black elderberry - 600 bottles compared to 200 bottles last year. "...showing that divine intervention may work miracles, but when it comes... Read more

Swine flu vaccine trials underway in UK

The University of Leicester and University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust are carrying out Britain's first swine flu vaccine trials. From the press release: Dr Iain Stephenson, a consultant in infectious diseases at the hospital and clinical senior lecturer at... Read more

Summer school for secondary-school teenagers and medical students from Ireland

Medical students and those thinking of studying medicine will have the opportunity to participate in a Summer School designed to prepare them for a career in medicine this month. The Doctors' Academy Summer School in Manchester - 17th August (Monday)... Read more

To GPs: Interested in participating in a 24-hour BP study?

Take part in the RAMBLER II study (Role of Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring in General Practice). This text has been taken from this week's Irish Medical Times. It follows an article, written by cardiologist Prof Eoin O'Brien, about the importance... Read more