By Gary Culliton.

By Gary Culliton.

In the fifth of our series on healthy seasonal seafood, Dietitian Paula Mee suggests an excellent great tasting dinner option for those watching their weight of the white fish variety.

Giovanni Morelli, our wine columnist, makes immodest recommendations for wines good enough to accompany your Christmas dinner and paraphernalia that will make great gifts for the wine lovers in your life.

Work is underway to align mental health and primary care services with the new hospital Groups, Prof John Higgins tells Gary Culliton.

Alzheimer’s disease is an ever-increasing public health concern in the context of an ageing population.

Dr Muhammad Arshad, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at Hawkes Bay DHB New Zealand, and Prof Michael Fitzgerald, Professor of Child Psychiatry, TCD, examine the harrowing topic of child sexual abuse.

Dr Karen Whelan wrote about the gold standard in the medical management of bipolar affective disorder — biological treatment — while working with Dr Miriam Kennedy, Consultant St Patrick’s University Hospital.

Dr Ruairi Hanley does not buy any of the JFK assassination conspiracy theories, but he suspects the timing of a leak to the media on the hospital executive’s top-up payments is too much of a coincidence.

Lloyd Mudiwa highlights a few issues that the departments of the Taoiseach, and Public Expenditure & Reform, and the Oireachtas Health Committee might like to consider before passing the draft HSE NSP 2014.