A leading expert believes Ireland needs to formulate a new policy on malnutrition and address its mounting cost A leading international authority has suggested that poor awareness of the impact of disease-related malnutrition by doctors and healthcare staff is a major contributor to healthcare expenditure that urgently needs to be addressed. Prof Marinos Elia told [...]
Terence Cosgrave writes that the Budget marks the end of social partnership — which may be no bad thing By the time you read this, the Budget will have been presented to the Dáil — it’s impossible to say even at this stage that it will pass. It is a significant marker for this country [...]
Dignity 4 Patients spokesperson Bernadette Sullivan tells Dara Gantly of how doctors in the northeast failed to report the allegations of sexual abuse against Michael Shine The support group set up by those who say they were abused by the former Drogheda surgeon Michael Shine have claimed that several GPs in the northeast knew of [...]
Gary Culliton reports on the first quarterly report from the Implementation Steering Group set up to respond to the recent patient safety report The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) at the Department of Health has reiterated that any cases of malpractice must result in the automatic suspension of a healthcare professional. Writing as Chairman of the [...]
Brian Herron reports on the University of Limerick’s new graft which could help dialysis patients and bring ‘considerable revenues’ to UL A new type of Art-eriovenous graft developed at the University of Limerick could result in major benefits for patients undergoing dialysis in the near future. That’s the hope of the Prof Tim McGloughlin and [...]
Dr Garrett FitzGerald writes that 12 unpaid working days will be equivalent in the health service to 5,000 staff missing every working day, but it saves face for the unions For over a hundred and fifty years, the members of our majority religious faith basked snugly in the realm of unassailable but compulsory certainty. There [...]
Dr Mick Molloy argues that strikes won’t get us out of our mess, and that leadership may have to institute cutbacks reminiscent of those in the ’80s Ten years ago articles written at this time of the year regularly spoke about hospitals running out of money and procedures being cancelled to save money. At times, [...]
Dr Pat Harold doesn’t go to Mass, but he has faith in the soul and the afterlife. He argues that fundamentlist atheists are just fundamentalists with a different faith I see the atheists are at it again. In 1912, as I recall, although not from first-hand knowledge, the editor of The Free Thinker periodical was [...]
Cormac McCarthy, the acclaimed US author, sold his typewriter for about $250,000 in a Sotheby’s auction. The money went to charity. This to me is a sign of a deluded individual maintaining a belief that there is something magical and talismanic about the author’s position in society. I borrowed the word ‘talismanic’ from a quote [...]
Dear Editor, The article in IMT 4/12/2009 regarding the association between high-potency cannabis (skunk) use and psychosis is misleading. Dr Marta Di Forti and her team published their results in the British Journal of Psychiatry. They collected information from 280 people attending South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust suffering their first treated episode of [...]
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