A new study has revealed that although the majority of students in Ireland believe that depression is a very real problem, just over one-quarter (27 per cent) would know what to do if someone close to them was suffering from the condition. The results of the ‘Mind Yourself – Lundbeck Mental Health Barometer 2008’ reported [...]
A number of groups have announced their intention to step up their campaign against co-locating private hospitals on public hospital sites. Ahead of this week’s planning inquiry in Cork, the Campaign for a Real Public Health Service says the plan to build a co-located facility side by side with Cork University Hospital (CUH) is not [...]
Child and adolescent psychiatrists need to spend less time in clinical meetings and more time seeing patients, a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin has told Irish Medical Times. Prof Michael Fitzgerald, speaking following the launch of the first ever national survey on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), said long waiting [...]
A building in Limerick that was to have been used as a medical centre and a library is to be turned into a bank instead. Dunnes Stores Limited and Kaithal Limited were granted permission to change the use of the building on the Clonmacken Road in Caherdavin. Limerick County Council granted permission for the change [...]
Bupa, Britain’s largest private medical insurance provider, saw its half-year pre-tax surplus fall by just over nine per cent to £156.5 million, largely due to its decision to quit the Irish market last year. The organisation, which as a provident association makes a ‘surplus’ as opposed to a ‘profit’, said the drop was expected, not [...]
A group of doctors who hold frequent meetings through the medium of the Irish language are to stage their autumn gathering on Saturday, September 27 in St John of God’s Hospital in Stillorgan, Co Dublin. Acadamh na Líanna will host the meeting, the theme of which is Health Care Issues of the Elderly in the [...]
New standards on information security in the health sector have been issued by the International Organisation for Standards (ISO), an international body composed of representatives from various national standards organisations. The new guidelines address the increasing use of wireless and internet technologies in healthcare delivery, and the consequent growth of electronic exchange of personal health [...]
A new inpatient and clinical research facility is to be built at St James’s Hospital in Dublin. Planning permission was recently granted to the largest hospital in Ireland for the three-storey building. A number of conditions were attached to the decision, one of which was that the hospital must pay nearly €480,000 to Dublin City [...]
GP and medical columnist Dr Juliet Bressan has published a novel, called Snow White Turtle Doves, through Poolbeg Press. Dr Bressan is a full-time GP specialising in substance abuse, and works for a drugs and AIDS service she helped to develop. The book is a romantic thriller set in New York, Ireland and Iraq. The [...]
A new type of surgery for high-risk heart patients was carried out for the first time in Ireland this month. The keyhole procedure, for patients suffering from aortic valve stenosis, was performed in in Blackrock Clinic on 10 September. The new technique, which is covered by the VHI, enables doctors to insert a replacement valve [...]
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