By Catherine Reilly.

Ahead of Mental Health Week on October 10, CEO of mental health support organisation GROW Michelle Kerrigan spoke with Pat Kelly about the organisation’s initiatives, future plans and unique operating system focused on recovery and integration.

Mental health support and awareness group, GROW, has been expanding in Ireland since 1969 and now has more than 120 groups spread across the country providing assistance to those suffering with, and recovering from, mental health difficulties.

In the second of a two-part feature, Prof Gerald H Tomkin of the Diabetes Institute of Ireland examines the development of pharmacological therapies to treat diabetes and their respective efficacies and impact on the disease.

The National Cancer Registry Ireland provides an overview of national incidence rates in Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

There are more than 100 different types of dementia, with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) being the most common, followed by vascular dementia (VaD) and diffuse lewy body disease, (DLB) writes Dr Orla Collins.

Social media are increasingly popular among doctors.

Dr Muiris Houston reports on new research which found that an increase in coffee intake might just be the tonic for stressed medical practitioners in practice all over Ireland, and on getting the hang of hangovers.

Fresh from the European Society of Cardiology meeting in Amsterdam, Dr Muiris Houston says while this year’s hot-line sessions were somewhat muted, one clinical trial had a ‘real patient’ feel about it, and shares the latest research on statins.

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