Irrespective of one’s religious or political leanings, Dr Ruairi Hanley believes that the medical profession must fight for the right to practise medicine independently {openx:269} I am not a religious fundamentalist.

Doctors have just over a one-in-60 chance of having a complaint made against them to the Medical Council in a given year, new figures reveal.

For a year’s worth of absolute exhaustion as a new mother, I took my girlfriend to Sligo for a nice weekend in a nice hotel, plus a spa treatment and massage for her.

The HSE has established a Human Resources and Integrated Services Directorate Group to ‘ensure adequate NCHD staffing levels and continued service delivery’.

Researchers in the Mater Hospital are reporting a worrying increase in mumps-related testicular problems among young males {openx:269} Urologists at a leading Irish hospital have reported an alarming increase in the number of teenage boys and young men developing mumps orchitis, in a paper published in the April issue of the Journal of the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BJUI).

Drogheda vasectomist Dr Oliver Lynn weighs up some of the options for couples who are wavering when it comes to vasectomy “It’s not what you know that makes the difference, it’s what you use” – Zig Ziglar {openx:269} As a vasectomist in active practice, I often encounter couples that have been considering vasectomy for quite a while.

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The Minister for Education has requested the Higher Education Authority (HEA) and the National Qualifications Authority of Ireland (NQAI) to carry out an external review of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland in relation to the commencement of its degree-awarding powers.

Prof Eoin O’Brien focuses on the consequences of blood-pressure fluctuations on cardiovascular outcomes {openx:269} We have recently seen a virtual deluge of papers (six in all) in two of the world’s most prestigious journals – The Lancet and Lancet Neurology — on an often-neglected aspect of blood pressure, namely its variability and the consequences of fluctuations in blood pressure on

In Ireland an estimated 50 percent of glaucoma cases are undiagnosed, the Irish College of Opthamologists (ICO) annual conference heard today, April 28.