An increasing number of eye infections that are caused by gonorrhoea or syphilis are occurring around the country, the Irish College of Ophthalmologists annual conference heard.

Hospital consultants want to see a major shift in the way chronic diseases are managed and are calling for the development of fully integrated shared services with GPs and nurses to care for patients in their local communities.

A meeting between the IMO and health service management at the Labour Relations Commission (LRC) on the MacCraith Report has been scheduled for Thursday, June 5.

Dear Editor, GPs are sensible individuals.

Some recent car trouble — and his failed attempts at accessing a mechanic — has proven illustrative of a wider morass affecting our service industries, which Dr Ruairi Hanley believes may be the greatest impediment to our economic recovery.

Dear Editor, I would like to reassure your readers following the letter some time ago from Dr Richard Gavin, in which he raised the concern that mindfulness could undermine the whole consultation process (IMT, Feb 24, 2012 see http://bit.

Dr Charles Daly recounts his personal experiences in the Casualty Department of the Mater Hospital some 40 years ago this month, on the day of the infamous Dublin and Monaghan bombings, which killed 33 people.

Individuals prenatally exposed to tobacco smoke exhibited weaker response in some regions of the brain while processing a task that measures inhibition control and may be linked to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), new research has found.

Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent English High Court case in which an Englishwoman who had a same-sex relationship with an Irishwoman sought to establish certain rights in respect of a child who was born in England as a result of unregulated artificial conception.

Children who receive antibiotics before their first birthday might be at an increased risk of developing asthma, new research published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine journal has confirmed.