The doctor who discovered PSA wants to change the way we screen for prostate cancer: “The medical community is slowly turning against P.S.A. screening. Last year, The New England Journal of Medicine published results from the two largest studies of the screening procedure, one in Europe and one in the United States. The results from [...]
On October 15, 2009, Irish Medical Times published this story, in which Mr Robert Quinn, Director, Quest Diagnostics Ireland, said that the opening of a Quest office and incorporation in Ireland “were further confirmation of the company’s long-term commitment to Ireland and Europe.” This morning, this comment was received on that story: I have been [...]
A man comes into the ER and yells, ‘My wife’s going to have her baby in the cab!’ I grabbed my stuff, rushed out to the cab, lifted the lady’s dress, and began to take off her under-wear. Suddenly I noticed that there were several cabs — and I was in the wrong one. More [...]
As part of IMT’s ongoing special report on the HPAT exam, our reporters have brought you more sample questions. See how well you do.
When people with disabilities play characters in a sitcoms that lampoon politicians, celebrities, and everyone else on earth, do they automatically lampoon themselves as people with disabilities? In a recent episode of Family Guy, an animated American sitcom known for unforgiving sarcasm and satire, a girl named Ellen, who has Down syndrome, says that her [...]
In what’s being called a breakthrough, a man who has been unconscious for five years was able to communicate with doctors using functional magnetic resonance imaging, a type of scan that allowed doctors to detect when the man changed thoughts. From the Irish Times: …The doctors scanned the man’s brain while he was asked to [...]
The Lancet has now issued a full retraction of the paper, authored by Dr Andrew Wakefield, linking autism and MMR. The text of the retraction is available on the Lancet. Dr Wakefield, who now lives and works in the US, said the findings were “unjust and unfounded.” The Huffington Post has said “not so fast.”
A blog associated with the NYU School of Medicine is worth some free time, if you can spare it: Literature, Arts & Medicine. From an entry on the literature written by nurses: …As I see more and more narrative medicine courses offered to medical students, I wonder why many nursing programs still fail to utilize [...]
A new website, Lose the Blues has been launched at University College Cork (UCC) aimed at students experiencing depressive symptoms. The website is designed specifically for 18- to 24-year-olds who may be experiencing “low mood to cope with their experiences.” As well as providing information on depression and links to national and international support services, [...]
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