By Aoife Connors aoife.

By Gary Culliton gary.

Dear Editor, An article on July 30 carried the headline ‘Antidepressants prevent suicides in young people’ (see www.

The new 50 cent prescription charge, announced in Budget 2010, will be introduced on 1 October next in respect of each prescription item dispensed to medical card holders.

Dear Editor, Dr Moosajee Bhamjee (IMT, July 9, page 11, ‘Swapping one illegal drug for another legal one’; see www.

A small Australian study looking at whether patients find chocolate acceptable as a long-term treatment for lowering blood pressure has found that a substantial number of patients prefer to take tablets.

On his first mission with MSF, Irish doctor Dr Mark Campbell recounts his experience in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan Dr Mark Campbell, an anaesthetist from Co Tyrone, arrived in Pakistan to work with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) five days before the country was hit by the worst floods in 80 years, killing more than 1,600 people

An invasion of privacy? “In my opinion, the new consultants’ contract has created more of a two-tier divide than ever before.

Dr Muhammad Arshad and Prof Michael FitzGerald take a look at Rett syndrome, a complex neurodevelopmental disorder that usually affects girls “Trust the parents who make most of the diagnoses, not the physicians.

Dr Illona Duffy writes that if the centralisation of secondary care is not funded sufficiently, patient care will inevitably suffer Sometimes, you have to listen to your own advice.