Dear Editor, Dr Stephen Sullivan describes artificially produced embryos as merely a dot on a page when they have developed to 100 cells (‘A ‘poorly informed’ debate on stem cell research in Ireland’, Letters page, Irish Medical Times, March 4, 2011, https://www.

By Gary Culliton.

Dear Editor, In response to the recent clinical article ‘Treatment and management options for psoriasis patients’ (Irish Medical Times, April 1, 2011, https://www.

By Lloyd Mudiwa.

Dear Editor, As a carer of two family members with ME, I feel Dr John Monaghan’s recent letter (‘The PACE of chronic fatigue’, Irish Medical Times, April 15, 2011, https://www.

Dr Ruairi Hanley resents the implication that goes with professional competence that he somehow needs to be educated at the point of a competence-assurance sword.

Shirley Coulter, Assistant Director of Industrial Relations, gives us some real-life examples of how the IMO is constantly putting various AGM motions into IR action.

In an interview with Irish Medical Times, IMO CEO George McNeice tells Dara Gantly that maximising membership and resources for the battle ahead over new contracts is a top priority for the doctors’ union this year.

The HSE Board is to be replaced by representatives from the top management of the Department of Health and the HSE, in a move which the Minister for Health Dr James Reilly said would “shorten the chain of command”.

By Lloyd Mudiwa.