Gary Culliton reports on the success of the core programme for cervical cancer vaccination in Northern Ireland, which has a 92 per cent uptake. The core programme for cervical cancer vaccination in Northern Ireland – now coming to the end of its first year – is getting 92 per cent uptake, compared with the target [...]
Gary Culliton writes that attempts are now being made to reduce the estimated cost of a national colon cancer-screening programme, with a view to including it in the Government’s 2010 estimates. Health Minister Harney has signalled the start of a process designed to begin a colorectal cancer-screening programme for the country. The Minister’s aim is [...]
Dr Garrett FitzGerald writes that our health system is on track to ensuring that there is one law for the rich patients and one for the poor — business as usual in Ireland Justice Seán Ryan’s report told us much about ourselves and God. While most of Europe slid into the post-Christian era after two [...]
Dr Mick Molloy writes that the new arrangements with regard to the registration procedure for NCHDs with the Medical Council may throw up a lot of problems It is that time of year again. The great migration is again upon us, when hordes of starving NCHDs migrate across the plains of Ireland in search of [...]
Terence Cosgrave writes that Ireland needs to continue its efforts to rid society of the curse of tobacco. Only a tiny number of adults will ever take up the smoking habit. On the face of it, why would anybody take up a drug habit that causes so much damage to a person’s health, may result [...]
Dear Editor, I was very surprised that the advertisement for the Marie Stopes abortion services (IMT, June 12) was not accompanied by an advertisement for agencies offering an alternative service to pregnant women in Ireland and elsewhere. As you rightly pointed out to Dr Sean O Domhnaill in your reply to his letter published in [...]
Dear Editor, I am deeply concerned that your excellent medical newspaper should accept advertisements from the Marie Stopes International Abortion Clinic. Abortion, no matter what its apologists claim, is the intentional and deliberate killing of a human person in its early stages of development. Its medical effects on the two people involved are death for [...]
Dear Editor, Your anonymous columnist ‘The Inside Back’ (www.imt.ie/opinion/2009/06/an_open_letter_to_anyone_who_o.html, June 19) has gone too far this time, suggesting that ‘anyone (sic) Irish person who opposes the Lisbon Treaty has a moral duty to run head-first into a cement wall as fast as possible, as many times as possible, until he is no longer mentally qualified [...]
Laurence O’Dwyer examines the area of ethology — the study of animals in their natural environment — and the implications of such studies for human behaviour, noting that there is no law that states that humans will evolve into something better Ethology is the study of animals in their natural environment. It incorporates many disciplines, [...]
Niamh Mullen speaks to Dr Dermot Power about the rewards that winning an Irish Healthcare Award can bring Winning an Irish Healthcare Award can help get innovative projects recognised and funded, according to Dr Dermot Power, a member of the judging panel for 2009. “The funding authorities recognise projects that win an award. The knock-on [...]
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