By Lloyd Mudiwa.

By Lloyd Mudiwa.

Gary Culliton on a new report by the Committee of Public Accounts, which heavily criticises management and budgeting practices within the HSE.

By Lloyd Mudiwa.

By Lloyd Mudiwa.

Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent English High Court case in which a doctor sought to quash a decision of a Fitness to Practise committee, which refused his application for voluntary erasure from the Medical Register on health grounds.

Dear Editor, Through your esteemed newspaper I would like to highlight certain important issues regarding foreign NCHDs, especially from India and Sudan.

Dear Editor, From my meeting with doctors recently who have described great difficulty in registering their vote in the current online voting for the Medical Council election, both in the lack of consideration for my older doctor colleagues and in the inadequacy of the Council’s administrative staff in dealing with the problem, a large number of doctors were denied a

Mouthguards and helmets can help ward off other serious head and facial injuries, but there is no good evidence that they can help prevent concussion, and paradoxically, they may even encourage players to take greater risks.

Although patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have a disproportionately higher incidence of herpes zoster (shingles), an analysis that included nearly 60,000 patients with RA and other inflammatory diseases (IDs) found that those who initiated antitumour necrosis factor therapies were not at higher risk of herpes zoster compared with patients who initiated non-biologic treatment regimens.