Mistakes are being made in a high number of drug treatments given to children in hospital, either when prescribing or administering the medicines, new study has revealed. Although most of the mistakes were unlikely to cause serious harm, a small number of cases were potentially fatal, prompting the study’s authors to call for more effective [...]
Researchers in Britain have questioned the recent decisions by some hospitals there to ban flowers. Researchers from Imperial College London surveyed the literature and talked to patients and staff at the Royal Brompton Hospital and the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital about their attitudes toward flowers. A 1973 study found flower water contained high bacteria counts. [...]
More research is needed before consumers can be reassured that electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are safe, according to two leading experts. Andreas Flouris and Dimitris Oikonomou, from the Institute of Human Performance and Rehabilitation in Greece, wrote that say that ‘our knowledge on the acute and long-term effects of e-cigarette use is, at best, very limited’. [...]
Clinical Update – Alzheimer’s: Evidence from clinical trials show that the behavioural disturbance features of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) can be helped. A subset of patients with dementia can experience significant behavioural disturbance, and it can completely alter their personality. However, undoubtedly some of those patients have been helped by drug treatments, a leading Irish expert [...]
Clinical Update – Alzheimer’s: It is thought that in Alzheimer’s disease, accumulations of amyloid deposits (amyloid-beta, known as Ab) destroy synapses, the major communication networks in the brain. Work by a group led by Dr Cora O’Neill, Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry at UCC, has focused on trying to find affected pathways in the brains of [...]
Clinical Update – Alzheimer’s: With the emergence of scan technology over the past 20 years, medics have the potential to investigate the living brain, allowing the ‘moving target’ of degeneration to be observed. Thus the ability of pharmacological treatments to slow down progression of neurodegenerative diseases can be observed. A Canadian paper (Gauthier S et [...]
Clinical Update – Alzheimer’s: Senior Research Fellow at TCD’s Institute of Neuroscience Dr Michael Ewers believes that as there are so many different compounds in the pipeline, the expectation is that in the near future, a potential treatment to delay progression of Alzheimer’s can be brought to market. While large human trials are under way, [...]
Continuing their series on ‘Notes from the Endocrinology Clinic’, Dr Frances Hayes and Prof T Joseph McKenna examine polycystic ovary syndrome Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the commonest endocrine disorder in young women. It has recently been defined by the presence of at least two of the following: oligomenorrhoea or amenorrhoea; hyperandrogenism manifest by clinical [...]
A soccer-specific exercise programme that includes individual instruction of athletes appears to reduce the risk of knee injuries in young female players, according to a new Swedish study. In the study, doctors assessed an intervention programme specifically designed to reduce the risk of soccer-related knee injuries among 1,506 13-to 19-year-old Swedish female players. The programme [...]
Moderate physical activity performed in midlife or later appears to be associated with a reduced risk of mild cognitive impairment, whereas a six-month high-intensity aerobic exercise programme may improve cognitive function in individuals who already have the condition, according to two new reports. The first followed a study in which doctors conducted a randomised, controlled [...]
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