Type II diabetes can be a sign of underlying pancreatic malignancy, according to Australian experts.

Many patients who have to undergo myocardial perfusion imaging accumulate radiation doses exceeding that of people who were exposed to the atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the first week of August 1945, according to a study presented to the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions in Chicago.

New results showing, for the first time, that cardiac-resychronisation therapy (CRT) can reduce death or heart failure by 25 per cent in appropriately selected patients have been described as “breathtaking” by an editorialist in the New England Journal of Medicine.

New research shows that corneal sensitivity is a cheap, effective, non-invasive test for the diagnosis of minimal and advanced diabetic neuropathy in patients with type II diabetes.

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Since the introduction of methadone regulation, the ICGP has trained 830 GPs at Level 1 and 61 GPs at Level 2.

The HSE has received almost 16,500 applications for the Nursing Homes Support Scheme to date.

More children are surviving cancer compared to previous decades, latest data show, although improvements in survival rates are mostly in leukaemia patients.

Rory Hafford talks to Dr James Reilly about policies, protests, a certain Ford Capri and the importance of putting the patient first Way back in the day, when Dr James Reilly was still a medical student, he always seemed to be one step ahead of the pack.