Dr Seán Callan looks at the healthcare reform options that US President Barack Obama may seek to enact and examines the barriers that he faces in the process It is likely that the United States will enact some sort of healthcare reform by the end of 2009. That is the general consensus among American political [...]
Recommendations have been made to the European Commission for developing the use of robots in healthcare over the next 15 years It might seem like something from the plot of a Hollywood movie, but by 2025, robots will likely play a significant role in providing healthcare. Recommendations to the European Commission (EC) for developing the [...]
Terence Cosgrave writes that the new system for assessing candidates for medical school is probably a little fairer than that which existed heretofore, but does the system miss out on the most fundamental point of all? The new system for selecting entrants to Irish medical schools will have its critics and its supporters. The system [...]
The IBTS has called on the Department of Health to re-establish an expert advisory group on vCJD to safeguard the blood supply, reports Dara Gantly The Department of Health believes that a number of ‘significant issues’ need to be addressed before it can consider funding a new test for variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (vCJD). An [...]
Greg Baxter talks to Prof Henry Lynch about the Syndrome that carries his name and how to treat patients and families with hereditary cancers Prof Henry T Lynch, who pioneered the idea of hereditary cancer syndromes in the 1960s, will be in Dublin next month to talk at the ‘Cancer at a Crossroads’ conference about [...]
Dr Garrett FitzGerald takes a look around the internet for some choice bargains in the field of cosmetic surgery The photograph above is years old and I’ve since passed myself out. Th’auld body really starts to fall asunder when you cross the 65 barrier, particularly if you’re still alive. The backs of the hands are [...]
Dr Mick Molloy considers the issues of free fees and access to third-level education and wonders whether the introduction of HPAT is of any benefit to students That week in August has come and gone, when the Leaving Certificate results are released once more. Even this choice of language suggests that there is relief for [...]
I was required recently, as an employee of a large multi-national company (IMT is owned by a large multi-national), to take a one-hour course on the company’s corporate ethics policy. I had delayed it for some time, presuming I would be forgotten. But then my boss’s boss’s boss’s boss sent me an email — and [...]
Dr Paul Stewart spends a bit of this rainy summer watching television, and medical-themed programmes in particular. But are they a bit too much like real life? I’m not usually one for watching medical dramas, and this has been the case for many years. The thought of watching one seems too much like the busman’s [...]
Dear Editor, As a taxpayer, I need a protective voice to defend me from expense-ridden, pension-conscious, vested-interest-negotiating politicians, a greedy legal class fat on needless commissions — tribunals — and prostituted by politically appointed bias, inept banks we don’t need intent on my money and yours for their non-asset liabilities, and a compensation-craved public used [...]
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