A new study into the accuracy of pharmaceutical product advertisements has revealed that almost 7 per cent of claims made in the ads are unpublished or unsupported by evidence. Two GP registrars with the HSE Eastern Regional GP Training Scheme at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) did the research, and studied 171 claims made in ads [...]
Pharmacists have called for greater restrictions on over-the-counter (OTC) medications containing codeine, by suggesting a scheme similar to that in Australia where people need ID to buy certain drugs. The Chairman of the Irish Pharmaceutical Union’s (IPU) Community Pharmacy Committee Mr Darragh O’Loughlin said anecdotal evidence suggests there is a problem in Ireland with a [...]
An Irish doctor working at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, has won a major award for cancer research with a drug designed to help women who have trastuzumab-resistant breast cancer. Dr Brian Hennessy received an ASCO, given by the American Society of Clinical Oncology, which are handed out annually to “promising investigators [...]
The Health Service Executive’s (HSE’s) Medical Education, Training and Research Committee approved more than €3.5 million in ring-fenced funding to the postgraduate training bodies, training facilities, and HSE librarians, according to the HSE 2006 Annual Report. The committee, chaired by Prof Muiris X Fitzgerald, is responsible for devising strategy and policy in education, training and [...]
The new medical school in the University of Limerick (UL) is still waiting approval from the Medical Council before the first Irish intake of graduate entrants begins in September. The council’s accreditation team visited the medical school a few weeks ago and their report must be cleared by the Education and Training Committee before being [...]
Junior doctors are happy with the relationship between themselves and non-medics in hospitals and are also positive about the overall atmosphere in the institution where they work. The findings are revealed in an Irish Medical Organisation’s (IMO) survey of non-consultant hospital doctors, which 284 non-consultant hospital doctors participated in. The survey found that 42 per [...]
Mobile mammography screening trailers and digital imaging equipment are being bought by BreastCheck. The National Breast Screening Programme has awarded a contract to a company to provide the trailers for its Dublin, Cork and Galway centres. However, it has not specified publicly how many will be bought or how much they will cost. It is [...]
Junior doctors’ representatives are looking for exemptions for pregnant NCHDs so they do not have to do on-call work from the 24th week of their pregnancy and do not have more than 10 hours a day from their 28th week on. The Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) said that it wants full locum cover to be [...]
The Grangegorman Development Agency’s is being forced into spending between €1.5 million and €2.5 million over four years to hire an organisation to provide it with a wide range of services, due to its lack of employees. The Agency was established two years ago to oversee the development of the 73 acre Grangegorman site, where [...]
Knowledge of testicular cancer, the incidence of which has doubled in the last 20 years in Ireland, is very poor among Irish men. Just 17 per cent admitted to being examined by their doctor for the disease. Researchers from the Medical School in University College Cork (UCC) asked 200 Irish men in their 20s, 30s [...]
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