In the second article of a new monthly series on general science in Irish Medical Times Laurence O’Dwyer writes about the memory process and how a small snail has helped scientists to understand the workings of the memory of more complex creatures like human beings. Without memory, we are lost and locked out of our [...]
Fewer patients undergoing gallbladder surgery at one major public teaching hospital sustained injuries to their bile ducts or other complications after trainee surgeons’ work hours were reduced, according to a new American report. In the study, doctors analysed the medical records of 2,470 patients who underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Overall, 1,353 procedures were performed before the [...]
Receiving a liver from a donor older than age 60 does not appear to be associated with transplant failure, death or recurrent disease in the next five years among transplant patients with the hepatitis C virus, according to a new report. That report followed a study in which American doctors analysed data from 489 adult [...]
Dr Sardar U. Khan writes on otitis media with effusion in children and how GPs can offer the best treatment options. General practitioners are required to diagnose a number of common ear pathologies on the regular basis. In particular, otitis media with effusion (OME) can be well managed in primary care if a reliable diagnosis [...]
According to John Keats, in his poem The Human Seasons, ‘Four seasons fill the measure of the year; There are four seasons in the mind of men.’ One of many literary figures to compare the phases of life to the seasons, Keats was also a medical man and a Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries. [...]
Issues surrounding remission in schizophrenia were the principal themes at the recent annual conference of the Association of Community Mental Health Nurses of Ireland (ACMHNI), which was held in Athlone. Since the early 1990s, the treatment of schizophrenia has changed dramatically with the arrival of a range of atypical anti-psychotics, an audience at a Janssen-Cilag [...]
The average age of a first-time mother in Ireland has gradually increased over time and is now thirty years old. At the same time, age of first intercourse is decreasing and is now 18.2 years. Families tend to have one or two children and families of three or more children are the exception, rather than [...]
Individuals who visit dermatology clinics for tattoo removal are more likely to be women than men, and may be motivated by the social stigma associated with tattoos and negative comments by others, according to a new report. Researchers surveyed 196 individuals who visited one of four dermatology clinics in Arizona, Colorado, Massachusetts and Texas for [...]
Children who are bilingual before the age of five are significantly more likely to stutter and to find it harder to lose their impediment than children who speak only one language before this age, new research has suggested. The researchers base their findings on 317 children, who were referred for stutter when aged between eight [...]
Carbon dioxide laser resurfacing appears to be an effective long-term treatment for facial wrinkles, according to a new study. In the study, doctors assessed 42 women and five men whose average age was 52 years and who underwent carbon dioxide laser resurfacing on their entire face between 1996 and 2004. Some 45 per cent of [...]
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