Professor Neil Greenberg, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London By Aoife Connors Emergency departments may be more stressful for doctors and worse for their mental health than war zones in Iraq are for soldiers, new research has suggested.

By Gary Culliton HIQA yesterday told the HSE to take charge of a nursing home in County Offaly, which has had its registration cancelled, and make alternative arrangements for the residents of Upton House Nursing Home as soon as practicable.

Dara Gantly questions whether a wider indenture scheme could now help Ireland Remembering Kitchener’s appeal ‘Your country needs you!’ may well evoke different responses from an Irish or British audience, but such a call to arms has emerged in different guises of late on both sides of the Irish Sea, and indeed in the pages of Irish Medical Times.

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Dr Ruairi Hanley is incensed this week by yet another needlessly complicated patient referral form that was sent to GPs from the HSE Mother Ship Last week, I received a letter that made my blood boil.

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Young children who have attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) appear to be at greater risk for adolescent depression and/or suicide attempts five to 13 years after diagnosis, according to a new study.

A new study has found that, in the past decade, drunkenness has become less common in Ireland and other Western countries and among boys, and more common in Eastern Europe and among girls.

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Investigations for suspected child abuse and neglect may not be associated with improvements in common, modifiable risk-factors including social support, family functioning and poverty, says a new study.