Former British and Irish Lions player, Dr Jack Kyle has been honoured as Patron of Neri Clinics at the official launch of the Sligo-based charity. Neri Clinics was established by a group of Irish doctors who developed a primary healthcare centre at the Linda Township in Lusaka, Zambia. The clinic provides health-care services at a [...]

Dr Garrett Lawlor has been awarded a fellowship a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital — one of the leading academic medical centres in the US. The Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Fellowship offers a tenure at the Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre (BIDMC), Boston, which is associated with Harvard Medical School. [...]

Two doctors are among the nominees for this year’s Sakharov Prize, the European Parliament’s award for defenders of human rights and democracy across the globe. A Palestinian obstetrician in Gaza and a doctor from the Democratic Republic of Congo are among the ten candidates. Dr Izzeldin Abuelaish, a Palestinian obstetrician in Gaza, has treated both [...]

THE FOCUS will be on Malaria as a global health problem on April 25 when the World Health Organisation holds the third annual World Malaria Day. The disease continues to affect 40 per cent of the world’s population. It infects more than 500 million people each year and kills more than one million The burden [...]

World TB Day took place this week with the main events held in Brazil, where the disease kills 20 people every day. The ‘2009 World Health Organization Global TB Control Report’ was released on the day. It was also officially announced that ministers from countries with a high burden of multidrug-resistant TB would meet in [...]

THE LABOUR Party plans to publish a Private Members’ Bill within the next 10 days seeking to outlaw female genital mutilation (FGM). Health spokesperson Jan O’Sullivan said it was time for Ireland to join other European and some African countries in outlawing the ‘barbaric practice’. She added the Government had refused to take legislative action, [...]

Former British and Irish Lions and Irish international rugby team medical chief Dr Gary O’Driscoll has joined former ‘top-four’ Premiership side Arsenal. Arsenal has announced that it has appointed Dr O’Driscoll as the new club doctor replacing Dr Ian Beasley, who has taken up a role within the England national setup. Dr O’Driscoll has been [...]