The Department of Health has indicated that not extending total emergency department (ED) waiting time measurement to 27 hospitals by the end of this month would constitute a ‘fundamental failure’ on the part of the HSE. Secretary General Michael Scanlan informed HSE CEO Prof Brendan Drumm late last year that it was ‘essential’ the Executive [...]
The long-awaited Prospectus report into critical care services still remains unpublished more than a year after its completion. The report has called for the number of critical care beds to be increased by 45 per cent from 289 to 418, and for this total to increase to 579 by 2020. The system does not have [...]
The Fiona Bradley Award has been presented to Dr Margaret Bourke during the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Association of University Departments of General Practice in Ireland on 19 March. The foundation was established following the death of Dr Fiona Bradley in 2002. Dr Bradley’s contribution to medicine began in 1978 when she entered Trinity [...]
New research shows it may be safe for patients taking thyroxine replacement to have low but not suppressed thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) levels. The research, presented at the Society for Endocrinology BES meeting in Manchester last week, shows that it may be safe for patients to take slightly higher doses of thyroxine than are currently [...]
Case management appears to be associated with more appropriate follow-up and shorter time to diagnostic resolution among low-income women who receive an abnormal result on a mammogram, a new Canadian study has found. In the study, doctors included 2,252 participants in the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Programme, which funds breast cancer screening [...]
The Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council (PHECC) plans to air a series of adverts on TV, in cinemas and on the web to promote cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) skills among the general public. The cinema and TV advertisement will be part of the ‘Citizen CPR’ awareness campaign aimed at the general population, which will promote compression-only CPR. [...]
The Irish Thoracic Society (ITS) is urging people not to be complacent about tuberculosis (TB) on World Tuberculosis Day today (March 24). In 2006, 465 cases of TB (11 per 100,000 population) were notified to the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC). This marked an increase on the 2000-2005 rates between 9.7 and 10.6 per 100,000 [...]
IMPACT trade union members have discovered hundreds of examples of elderly clients, distressed, frightened and confused by the correspondence received from the Primary Care Reimbursement Service (PCRS) unit in Dublin where medical card applications are processed. A submission made by IMPACT to the Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children has stated that medical card processing [...]
A new white blood-cell that could be used to treat asthma has been discovered by Trinity College researchers. The cell, called nuocyte, will be involved in the development of new treatments for asthma and other allergic diseases when the body makes an inappropriate response to environmental molecules. Nuocyte was discovered by using parasitic worms to [...]
Women can reap the benefits of milk in their exercise and training regimes, according to a Canadian study published in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise. It investigated two groups of women to see which group would gain muscle mass and lose fat mass after resistance exercise. One group consumed fat-free skimmed milk, while [...]
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