A leading health economist has criticised the recently-agreed consultants’ contract, saying that it will not result in any extra hours being worked or in any extra productivity, and that the impact on patients will be a negative one. Under the recently-agreed deal — due to cost tens of millions of euro extra each year — [...]
Gary Culliton speaks to Prof Colin McGuckin about the many therapeutic uses for cord-blood stem cells A ‘bubble child’ from Northern Ireland has received a cord blood transplant at a facility run by Ballymena-born Prof Colin McGuckin in Newcastle, England, giving her a new immune system and a new chance of life. The transplant procedure [...]
GPs will be treated the same as pharmacists when it comes to deciding on changes to their fee structure, according to Mr Paddy Burke, Assistant National Director of the Primary Care Reimbursement Service, who has confirmed this week that the competition law ban on negotiating with independent medical contractors will affect GPs. Because the HSE [...]
A growing trend in the United States is an e-healthcheck, where online doctor visits are becoming more common and are now covered by insurance There are many reasons why a visit to the doctor’s surgery could actually worsen your health. A combination of germ-infested offices, outdated magazines, bad elevator ‘muzak’, no parking spaces and long [...]
“Chewing gum is a simple solution to the recovery of bowel function after gastrointestinal surgery – a problem that has troubled patients and physicians for decades,” Medical News Today reports. Research published in Urology has shown that “gum chewing may speed the recovery of bowel function after cystectomy and diversion. These findings are consistent with [...]
Health promotion in Ireland is less effective because it it is conceived and aimed at the wrong groups in society, according to one of the authors of a new report which details the extent of Ireland’s respiratory disease. The INHALE report found that Ireland had the second highest rate of respiratory disease in Europe — [...]
Mary Anne Kenny looks at a proposed pilot scheme for the UK, which would see changes to the GP sick-certificate system Whose responsibility is it to monitor employees’ sick leave – bosses, patients or doctors themselves? The UK’s Health Secretary Alan Johnson has concluded that doctors have to play a more active role, and says [...]
The number of people affected by neurological conditions could rocket to over 800,000 in ten year’s time and put considerable strain on neurological services, according to a report by the Health Service Executive (HSE). The report The Strategic Review of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology Services, produced by the Population Health Directorate of HSE said that [...]
All specialists offering weight-reduction surgery for the morbidly obese should establish a patient database, the The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) has urged. It has published its first ever guidelines for delivering obesity surgery, which are ‘overdue’, said Director of Surgical Affairs, Prof Arthur Tanner. The RCSI warned that there is a paucity [...]
Gary Culliton speaks with Dr James Martin of the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Clinic, UCC, on his research into the immunology of asthma It is increasingly the view in Europe — more even than in North America — that probiotics and the intestinal bacteria may be crucial in the treatment of allergy and asthma. “I’m interested in [...]
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