A major US task force on prostate cancer has recommended against PSA screening for men over the age of 75. The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), updating its 2002 report, concluded that there was insufficient scientific evidence to recommend screening for all men, and found inconclusive evidence that early detection improves health outcomes. The [...]
Professor Aviva Tolkovski from the University of Cambridge presented a paper on the mechanisms of neurodegeneration at the second National Meeting of Neuroscience Ireland at NUI Galway. The conference also looked at strategies to promote regeneration of neurons, which may advance the discovery of new therapies for degenerative diseases, enhancing the quality of life for [...]
The company behind the north east’s GP out of hours co-operative has just stated that it made a post-tax profit of nearly €714,000 last year. North East Doctor On Call Limited recently lodged documents with the Companies Registration Office which showed a profit of €713,000 in 2007, compared to one of €763,813 in 2006. Its [...]
The Health Service Executive South has published its seventh annual ‘Overview of Drug Misuse’ report (2007), which covers the five counties of the south-east region: Waterford, Wexford, Carlow, Kilkenny and South Tipperary. The report gives a breakdown of alcohol and drug misuse based on information supplied from statutory and voluntary treatment services, education and prevention [...]
NUI Galway’s Department of Surgery will host the largest surgical conference in Ireland, the 33rd Sir Peter Freyer Memorial Lecture and Surgical Symposium on 5-6 September 2008. Dr Ernest E. Moore, from Denver General Hospital, will deliver the Memorial Lecture at 5. 00 pm on the first day of the conference, in the University’s Arts [...]
The average age at which opiate dependent teenagers tried any illegal drug was just over 12 years, according to a new study carried out among patients at the Drug Treatment Centre Board. Eighty-three per cent cited cannabis as the first illegal drug they used. The study looked at Irish teenagers on methadone treatment and found [...]
New research has thrown doubt on the effectiveness of introducing a large-scale vaccination programme for cervical cancer. Prophylactic vaccines for human papillomavirus types 16 and 18 (HPV-16 and HPV-18) may not provide life-long immunity, and their overall effect on the development of cervical cancer is not known, according to a study published in the New [...]
Many breast cancers could be missed in Limerick while women await the roll-out of BreastCheck there, according to Limerick East TD Kieran O’Donnell (FG). According to the Institute of Public Health in Ireland, Limerick at had the lowest life expectancy for females in Ireland – at 79.3 years. “At present all vital routine mammography screening [...]
Tony Craig was born and reared in Dublin. He was educated at Armagh Road and Templeogue College. He studied Medicine at RCSI on St Stephen’s Green and qualified in 1979. He interned at the Richmond Hospital and from there, he began a career in surgery, working in various parts of the country including Navan, Cork [...]
Ireland has been chosen to host the 10th World Down Syndrome Congress next year. The event will run across four days from August 19 to August 22 and is expected to attract over 2,000 delegates from across the globe. The Congress will take place in the Helix and DCU, with a State Reception to be [...]
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