Osteoporosis Supplement: The Irish Osteoporosis Society, with the support of an unrestricted educational grant from A.

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Osteoporosis Supplement: Rory Hafford examines the findings of a number of studies into the rise of osteoporosis and looks at a new and controversial book on the condition {openx:269} Sir Kingsley Dunham is a former director of the British Geological Survey group and he draws an interesting analogy between the Pennine hills and osteoporosis.

The writing has appeared on the medical walls of our public hospitals and the doctors have been the first to see it, says Dr Garrett FitzGerald {openx:269} In the eighties, our CEO didn’t believe in private patients.

In the first of his new weekly columns for Irish Medical Times, Dr Ruairi Hanley says he belives the HSE has a seven-step plan to downgrading hospitals across the country {openx:269} The HSE has begun 2010 in style.

Michael O’Leary has really lost it this time.

Dear Editor, With so many hospitals and aesthetic clinics in Ireland now providing obesity reduction as a therapy, physicians have a responsibility to their patients to estimate their risk of a future cardiovascular event.

Clinical Update: Hip and knee surgery – It is not practical to screen every hip and knee replacement patient post-operatively for the low risk of possible silent venous thrombosis, a leading orthopaedic surgeon has stated.

Dear Editor, This Saturday, February 27, the UCC Medical Society will breathe life into the Irish Medical Rugby Intervarsity.

The HSE CEO estimates that the Executive needs to vaccinate an additional 600,000 people if it is to protect the population against a further wave of swine flu.