By Lloyd Mudiwa. Some of Iraq’s top students have arrived in Ireland to undertake a Medical Commencement Programme with the RCSI, re-establishing the long-suspended educational ties between the two countries.
Call for restrictions on triple-embryo transfer
March 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Lloyd Mudiwa. Researchers are advocating for restrictions on triple-embryo transfer, following findings that more than 40 per cent of triplet to quintuplet pregnancies conceived in Dublin over a decade were as a result of assisted reproduction.
Myths about men’s health ‘destructive’
March 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
There are more myths than facts available on men’s health, which can lead to men being misinformed about important health issues, a leading expert on men’s health has said.
Infants born to Irish mothers more illness prone
March 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Lloyd Mudiwa. Evidence on the protective effects of breastfeeding against infant risk of acute otitis media, gastro-intestinal and respiratory morbidity is particularly convincing, Irish research has shown for the first time.
Group strives to ‘light a fire’ under AVFC implementation
March 13, 2012 By 1 Comment
By Pat Kelly. Mental Health Reform (MHR), a collective consisting of 23 members — including Amnesty International, Bodywhys, Headstrong, Simon Communities, St Patrick’s University Hospital, Rehab and the College of Psychiatry of Ireland — last week launched its ‘Guiding A Vision for Change — Agenda for Action’ strategy aimed at establishing a speedier implementation of [...]
TCD advance in water systems
March 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Lloyd Mudiwa. A team of Trinity College Dublin (TCD) researchers has developed a revolutionary, fully automated system that eradicates bacterial contamination in hospital water-tanks, distribution systems and taps — contamination linked to the recent tragic deaths of three babies in Belfast’s Royal Maternity Hospital.
Electronic palliative care system for GPs may be ‘within a year’
March 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Pat Kelly. The Chairperson of the Primary Palliative Care National Steering Group is working on an electronic palliative care database system for GPs and hopes to pilot the scheme by as early as 2013.
Nurses are ‘losing professional identity’
March 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Lloyd Mudiwa. Health systems are failing nurses who are losing their professional identity, according to two decades’ worth of research into nursing policy.
Action plan due on retaining doctors
February 29, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Gary Culliton. An ‘action plan’ will be finalised shortly to combat what has been termed this country’s “fragmented” approach to retaining and attracting medical graduates, Irish Medical Times has learned.
Medicine students from RCSI and UCD dominate debating awards
February 29, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Lloyd Mudiwa. Medicine students from UCD and the RCSI combined to make it a rare all-medicine victory night in The Irish Times Debate 2012 final held in the O’Flanagan lecture theatre last month (Friday, February 17).
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