Terence Cosgrave writes that Ireland faces an obesity crisis in the coming years and that we are unlikely to see any initiatives to deal with the problem at official level until it’s too late The recent Irish Medical Times survey of GPs provided some very interesting answers. And threw up some more troubling questions. Probably [...]
Niamh Mullen examines the results of the latest IMT survey of GPs on issues such as the legalisation of cannabis The Irish Medical Times GP survey (the results of which were published in last week’s issue) provides a ‘snapshot in time’ of the views of Irish general practitioners on a range of issues, often with [...]
In the second part of a major investigation, Dara Gantly examines the options available to detect and filter out variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease from blood donations. Read part 1 of this article, which was published last week The latest Annual Report (2007) from the Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS) suggests an unambiguous stance on using [...]
Gary Culliton reports on a study that examines trends in Irish neonatal mortality data and compares the rates to those of other countries Prematurity is now the leading cause of neonatal mortality in Ireland, representing a change from previous years, while deaths related to asphyxia have remained largely unchanged, according to a new study. However, [...]
Dr Garrett FitzGerald writes that we are willing to embrace everyone as one of our own, as long as they are famous and can bring a few more punters into our pubs They’ve gone stone mad below in Clare, a minor enough adjustment. Muhammad Ali will be there next week in Ennis to claim his [...]
Dr Mick Molloy ponders the new HPAT test for school leavers wishing to study medicine and wonders if it is possible to devise an entry system to medical school that would be completely fair The first casualties and winners of the new admissions into medicine have been made public this week. In an article in [...]
Just got my bike back from the shop. It’s been there since April, after an American in a rental car hit me and basically killed me. I have it back now, but I’m having trouble adapting to being on two wheels again: what I’ve realised is that motorcyclists are constantly an inch away from death, [...]
Dear Editor, I refer to the 21/8/’09 editorial, ‘Who gets to go to medical school?’ (www.imt.ie/opinion/2009/08/who_gets_to_go_to_medical_scho.html). You write that ‘society pays an enormous cost to educate medical students’ but ‘the State gets very little back’. Our system is one where taxpayers pay taxes according to the amount of income they make. This is used to [...]
Dear Editor, With regard to your editorial last week (‘Who gets to go to medical school?’, www.imt.ie/opinion/2009/08/who_gets_to_go_to_medical_scho.html), the vast majority of Irish medical graduates do stay in Ireland and enter the hospital system as NCHDs, working long hours and contributing to the State. Many will emigrate later to do a fellowship in a high-level centre [...]
Ed Madden, BL on a case in which a prison officer sought to set aside a decision that he was not entitled to paid sick-leave in respect of an incident at work in which he was assaulted by a prisoner Gerald McCarthy is a prison officer at Cork Prison. On November 27, 2006 a prisoner [...]
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