Legislation in regard to kidney donation is due to change dramatically within the next two years, Gary Culliton reports in his latest Clinical Update.

Attending the annual parade of fillies at Killarney Racecourse, Dr Ruairi Hanley bumped into new Rose of Tralee Maria Walsh, before witnessing what he terms a dramatic volte-face by feminist Ireland.

Elucidating the whistleblower’s predicament, Dr Muiris Houston says to have to blow the whistle is a hard and lonely path he wouldn’t wish on any colleague.

Consultant Psychiatrist Dr Brian O’Shea reviews a new translation of Prof Dick Swaab’s book on the brain, but is left a bit flat by the Dutch professor’s controversial stances and lack of scientific vigour.

Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent Scottish court case in which a man who was injured playing football claimed that he suffered damage when hospital employees failed to carry out an ultrasound scan requested by two different doctors.

With the French government now legislating to protect restaurant customers from being dished up pre-prepared food, Giovanni Morelli reflects on the desire for ‘home’-produced products, wherever that home may be.

The staggering rate of GPs surveyed who had experienced work-related stress over the previous 12 months was hardly surprising, writes Dr Rob Hendry, Medical Director at the Medical Protection Society.

Photodynamic therapy (PDT), which uses topical agents and light to kill tissue, appears to better clear actinic keratoses (AKs), a common skin lesion caused by sun damage, at three months after treatment than cryotherapy

Excessive sitting and a sedentary behaviour, not just low physical activity levels, may become the new ‘health hazard of our time’, research published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine has warned.

Marie-Catherine Mousseau reports on current shortcomings and new advances in the management of stroke in Ireland as presented in the ‘Advancing stroke care meeting’ organised by Boehringer Ingelheim.