Derbhile Dromey writes that some patient-led organisations, such as Duchenne Ireland, are stimulating research into medical conditions. Patient-led organisations are playing a powerful role in stimulating research into rare diseases that would not otherwise attract funding. Organisations representing people with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), for example, which affects 160 families in Ireland, are stimulating significant [...]
Ed Madden, BL, on an English High Court case in which a nurse who had pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of her husband appealed the removal of her name from the nursing register. Wadanalahugedera Chandrasekera, who is originally from Sri Lanka, had been a nurse for all of her adult life. On October 22, 2005, [...]
You could be forgiven for feeling a bit jaded from the blanket coverage of all things Darwin. But being as it is the bicentenary of Charles Darwin’s birth (February 12) and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his seminal work, On the Origin of Species, what else could you expect? Commissioning editors are subject [...]
A poll carried out today by Inside Back shows that 100 per cent of me has no idea how fast the economy is collapsing, nor how far it will fall, nor what the experts have to say about it. It is likely that before I return to the office, where one of my many duties [...]
Dr Mick Molloy writes that another seminal year could be coming up — or it may even be the end of the world, depending on your sources. Every now and then, a ‘seminal year’ occurs, when important or even world-changing events happen. In the early 1940s, George Orwell wrote a novel entitled 1984 about three [...]
Dr John Ryan learns how to put the credit crunch in perspective, when he sees what everyday life is like for people living in the deprived areas of Lima. For my flight to Lima, I flew out of Newark airport. Newark is situated about 20 minutes from Manhattan on the New Jersey shoreline. The airport [...]
A unique cookery course, funded by the NHS, is teaching cardiac patients in Scotland how to improve their diet and prevent further heart trouble. Cardiac patients at a Scottish hospital are taking part in a unique cookery course designed to make their diets healthier and prevent future heart trouble. Astley Ainslie Hospital in Edinburgh is [...]
Terence Cosgrave says the Minister has no mandate left — from the public, doctors or anyone else. It’s time for her to go. In this week’s Irish Medical Times we publish the first results from our GP survey — more of which will appear next week. The survey was conducted in the last week of [...]
Dear Editor, Let me introduce you to Peter (age 11), Mikey (age 9) and Eve (age 7). They live at 19 St Brigid’s Grove. All three children suffer from a rare metabolic disorder known as glutaric aciduria type 1, of which there are 11 children in Ireland. The children are missing an enzyme for processing [...]
Dear Editor, I write in reply to Dr Michael O’Brien’s letter (IMT, Feb 6, 2009, see www.imt.ie/opinion/2009/02/gps_need_to_make_a_stand_to_ge.html) regarding the price at which the Tropical Medical Bureau (TMB) is providing the Cervarix vaccine. We made a decision to offer the HPV vaccines following enquiries from some of our staff members who were interested in obtaining the [...]
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