Tamiflu (the antiviral drug oseltamivir) shortens symptoms of influenza by half a day, but there is no good evidence to support claims that it reduces admissions to hospital or complications of influenza.

By Lloyd Mudiwa.

Dr Garrett FitzGerald recounts a meeting with the famed Dr Alfred Oberon Fagan-O’Toole, whose unique take on pain relief has won him many admirers in the nonsmoking, old-world, medical moral majority of Shakespearean enthusiasts.

One in four people with private health insurance (PHI) downgraded their insurance cover at their last renewal — with the overwhelming majority (91 per cent) citing expense as the reason for their action, a new poll has shown.

Examining some of the submission to the Department of Health on the draft General Scheme for Advance Healthcare Directives, Gary Culliton discovers that doctors have a number of concerns over the introduction of these new ‘living wills’.

A new study led by researchers at the Graduate Entry Medical School (GEMS), University of Limerick (UL) has found that people with low levels and very high levels of transferrin saturation are at an increased risk of death.

Dara Gantly examines whether the Government may have waved a white paper or white flag on the ideal of Universal Health Insurance.

Former Professor of Medicine and Chairman of the Department at RCSI-Bahrain at the height of the Arab Spring in 2011, Prof Jim Finucane has denied torture ever occurred in Bahraini hospitals between 2008 and 2013.

The Personal Cases Unit (PCU) of the IMO has remained the principal point of contact for members, handling approximately 12,000 calls in 2013.

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter published in IMT on March 28 from Dr Larkin Feeney (‘Commission’s ECT ‘error’’).