By Lloyd Mudiwa lloyd.mudiwa@imt.ie The current system of entry to medical schools does not ensure the best doctors for the future, according to the outcome of the inaugural Irish Medical Journal Inter-Medical School Debate sponsored by the Irish Medical Organisation. The team opposing the motion, ‘This House believes the current system of entry to medical [...]
By Lloyd Mudiwa lloyd.mudiwa@imt.ie More than 200 researchers in 10 hospitals and 10 third-level institutions funded by the Health Research Board (HRB) completed 111 projects last year. HRB CEO Enda Connolly said a total of 111 HRB grants were completed in 2009, resulting in eight new patents, eight applications for other patents, and 18 new [...]
By Aoife Connors aoife.connors@imt.ie Wexford General Hospital was awarded the Derek Dockery Award for Overall Best Project at the annual HSE Achievement Awards held in the Mansion House, Dublin, recently. Representing HSE South, the Wexford project won based on a ‘Site Infection Surveillance Service’ — an innovative post-discharge surveillance system for patients. It monitored surgical [...]
Ireland is to engage as a partner in the first European Union Health Literacy Survey, which is to be carried out across eight European countries in September. The survey aims to provide an insight into the effects of health literacy problems and to allow steps to be put in place to ensure that the issues [...]
The findings from an all-Ireland Gay Men’s Sex Surveys for 2007 and 2008 will be presented at the Gay Health Forum this Friday in Dublin Castle. It will reveal that in 2008, 59 per cent of the 691 men who responded indicated that they have had an HIV test. According to the Real Lives 3 [...]
RCSI scientists have led international research in the development of a gene that allows Tibetan highlanders living in the Himalayas to thrive at altitudes more than two miles above sea level. The findings have implications for human health as low oxygen levels is a common problem in patients. By identifying genes that have helped Tibetan [...]
Consultant cardio-thoracic surgeon at St James’s Hospital, Miss Eilis McGovern, has become the first woman to be elected president of the RCSI in the College’s 226-year history. Miss McGovern, who replaces outgoing President Prof Frank Keane, said she was honoured to be elected as president and looked forward to the challenges ahead. “The hybrid activities [...]
Researchers at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and University College Dublin (UCD) have discovered new autism genes as part of a global Autism Genome Project (AGP), the findings of which are published this week in the journal Nature. The TCD and UCD collaboration focused on the identification and study of children with autism and their families [...]
Researchers from the Tyndall National Institute in UCC have helped to develop the first scientific prosthetic hand that looks and feels like a real limb. The ‘Smart Hand Project’, a highly innovative European-funded research project, will tackle a major societal problem, according to Prof Fredrik Sebelius, Project Co-ordinator, based at Lund University, Sweden — that [...]
People dependent on nicotine were more than twice as likely to have symptoms of depression as those who were not, according to new research published in the British Journal of Psychiatry. The study, carried out by researchers from the University of Otago in New Zealand, followed over 1,000 people. At the ages of 18, 21 [...]
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