By Gary Culliton.

The Medical Council is to consider a specific reference to price display by GPs in its next Ethical Guide, reports Dara Gantly.

Dr Laura Nagle, Clinical Research Fellow at St Patrick’s University Hospital, Dublin, reflects this Halloween on the psychological appeal of the horror film.

Revolutionising cancer care and new chemotherapy approaches were discussed at the Inaugural Prof Gerry O’Sullivan Memorial Lecture in University College Cork, Irish Medical Times reports.

By Gary Culliton.

Men have borne the brunt of worsening mental health across the population of England since the start of the economic downturn in 2008, reveals research published in the online journal BMJ Open.

As Dr Ruairi Hanley’s exhaustive, radomised research in Subway bears out, portion size really does matter when it comes to taking the measure of the obesity ‘epidemic’.

By Lloyd Mudiwa.

By Lloyd Mudiwa.

Dr Philip Murray recounts the recent trip of the County Sligo GP Society to Portugal’s second city, Porto, where despite the food, friendliness and fado, the economic outlook remains uncertain for the population and their doctors.