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 [...]
The Washington Post is reporting that AIDS researchers gathered in Montreal yesterday heard encouraging results from studies of three strategies for preventing HIV infection using pharmaceuticals, particularly in women. Two experiments in monkeys showed that antiretroviral (ARV) drugs, given by mouth or by vaginal gel, were highly effective in blocking infection by the virus that [...]
Doctors, nurses and other medical professionals are being urged to volunteer for a life-changing trip to the poorest country in the western world. Haven, a new NGO set up by entrepreneur Leslie Buckley, aims to build houses and start community development programmes in Haiti. The organisation seeks at least 10 medical professionals to join its [...]
The Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform should strongly consider introducing specific legislation that would outlaw female genital mutilation (FGM) in Ireland. The Joint Oireachtas Com-mittee on Health and Children also wants to prohibit parents of Irish-born children from sending their offspring to countries to have the procedure carried out. The call came on [...]
Ireland’s Dr Philip Dodd took part in the inaugural concert of the World Doctors Orchestra in Berlin last May, playing first violin. Dr Dodd is Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability at TCD and RCSI. A Consultant Psychiatrist for St Michael’s House services, the largest voluntary State-funded intellectual disability service provider in [...]
US drugmaker Pfizer is to buy rival Wyeth in a deal worth $68 billion. In 2008, it was estimated that Wyeth employed 3,000 people in Ireland and that Pfizer employed 2,300. “The merger will be financed through a combination of cash, debt and stock,” the companies said. The merger will allow Pfizer to diversify its [...]
Developments in the investigation of brain injuries, strokes, epilepsy and colorectal cancer are just some of the areas that will benefit from a new Franco-Irish research collaboration signed this week. More than 150 Irish researchers are set to benefit from the new France-Ireland Scientific Collaboration Agreement, which will promote collaborative advanced research programmes in biological [...]
Pfizer, the world’s largest drugmaker, may be seeking to buy rival Wyeth in a deal that could be valued at more than $60 billion, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal, which said the companies have been in talks for months, although any deal is not near completion. In 2008, it was estimated [...]
From next September all girls in the UK aged 12 to 13 (year will be offered a vaccine against the virus that causes cervical cancer. Older girls aged 15 to 18 will also be offered the vaccine over the following two years as part of a ‘catch-up’ programme. Almost all cases of cervical cancer are [...]
The Minister for Health Mary Harney is scheduled to meet with experts from the National Asthma Programme in Finland this week during an official visit to the country to discuss replicating their innovative model of asthma care in Ireland. Over the 10-year period of the scheme, Finland saw a 54 per cent reduction in hospital [...]
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