The National Centre for Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Mater Hospital has carried out its 100th lung transplant.

The National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET), which co-ordinates health sector responses during the planning and response phases of a public health emergency, held its weekly meeting last week (October 23) to consider the level of preparation in acute hospitals in the unlikely event of a case of Ebola in Ireland.

Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent High Court case in which a woman sued the HSE following a fire at her home caused by the reckless behaviour of a vulnerable young woman who was a client of the service provider.

A business case setting out the various options for a new Financial Operating Model (FOM) has been submitted to the Department of Health and also to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform by the HSE.

Recent constraints in the Irish health service have added to the challenges of practising medicine, very often with negative impact on the well-being of doctors, writes Lloyd Mudiwa.

It’s not just Irish doctors becoming disillusioned with their lot, as a crop of new books on the US health system has revealed to Dr Muiris Houston.

Continuing our CPD initiative on hypertension, Valerie Ryan looks at the presentation from Dr Liam Glynn, Senior Lecturer in General Practice at NUI Galway, on the importance of treating to target and encouraging behavioural change.

Researchers in the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre in UCC have put forward a radically novel view of the biology of schizophrenia and more specifically its genetic basis, and their work may have significant implications for the development of new treatment strategies for the disorder.

The College of Psychiatrists of Ireland’s 2014 Spike Milligan Public Speaking Competition will take place next month in Dublin on the theme of the carer.

Dear Editor, I refer to the recent pictures you published of the Minister for Health and his two senior HSE staff ready to get the flu vaccine in their right upper arms (‘Healthcare workers are urged to get flu vaccination’, IMT, October 17, 2014).