With last orders still pending, Dara Gantly wonders whether the alcohol industry is in need of a proper debate on promotion, minimum prices and warnings It’s been fascinating to watch how smoking was promoted half a century ago by the ‘smart’ people of Madison Avenue, as portrayed in the TV series Mad Men. The advertising [...]
The co-creator of the HPV vaccine talks about the power of immunisation in the prevention of cervical cancer. Niamh Mullen reports God’s gift to women’ is how one Australian magazine described Prof Ian Frazer, the man who co-created the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. Originally from Scotland, Prof Frazer developed the vaccine in 1990 with his [...]
Support for a universal health insurance scheme is clear in submissions to the Department of Health on resource allocation. Niamh Mullen reports Complaints of unequal access to care; criticism of the two-tier healthcare system based on ability to pay; and proposals that money should follow patients were common sentiments expressed by many stakeholders in submissions [...]
Dr Garrett FitzGerald examines why measures to banish the trolley from the Emergency Department in Limerick do not have a snowball’s chance in ‘clinical winter’ of succeeding Limerick in the news again. Nothing to do with Justin McCarthy and the new idea of fielding a mixed-gender junior team in the senior hurling championships – a [...]
It is ludicrous that the new HSE legal department is set to cost up to €800,000 — especially when the Executive is outsourcing its legal services needs, writes Kealan Flynn The Health Service Executive (HSE) is setting up its own law office despite outsourcing its legal services needs. In a move that will divert as [...]
A big decision by the US Supreme Court has put the future of democracy in a bit of a pickle, and the fallout is likely to be felt around the world in just a few generations of elections. The court last week ruled five to four (along conservative versus liberal lines) that the US Government [...]
Dear Editor, I would like to comment on the points raised by Dr Kevin O’Doherty in his letter in your recent publication (Irish Medical Times, 1 & 8 January 2010), and to take issue with many of them as his justification for the continuation of the GP/Primary Care Units in their present format, and also [...]
Dear Editor, With reference to your two recent articles on resource allocation (Irish Medical Times, 1 & 8 January, 2010, pages 1 & 4), it is not surprising that your good paper had to resort to the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act to get access to documents from the HSE to the Department of Health. [...]
Dear Editor, Ireland has one of the fastest growing elderly populations in Europe. The Government Green Paper on Pensions states that in 50 years ,there will be two people of working age to support one pensioner. No combination of State agencies will be able to cope with this demographic time bomb. We need to prepare [...]
Dear Prof Murphy, Thank you for sending me the recently revised copy of the ‘Guide to Professional Conduct and Ethics for Registered Medical Practitioners’, 7th edition 2009. The publication has always represented good common sense and a valuable guide. However, I disagree with sentiments expressed in regard to abortion. I believe the views are immoral [...]
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