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By Gary Culliton GPs are being invited to refer patients to a new back-pain trial to be carried out by the Centre for Pain Research at NUI Galway.

Patients with early-stage schizophrenia who receive a combination of medication and a psychosocial intervention appear less likely to discontinue treatment or relapse, and may have improved insight, quality of life and social functioning than those taking medication alone, according to a new report from China.

Taking newer types of antipsychotic drugs could increase a patient’s risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE), a new study  has found.

Dear Editor, In reply to Dr Marcus De Brun’s recent article in Irish Medical Times (‘Why I rip my patients off’, October 22, 2010, see www.

The late Prof Maurice Neligan showed true excellence not only as a surgeon, but also as an unflinching patient advocate, says Dr Ruairi Hanley Irish medicine lost one of its favourite sons on October 8.

A ‘signature’ consisting of three biomarkers in the cerebrospinal fluid was present in 90 per cent of patients who had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, but also was found in more than one-third of cognitively normal older adults, according to a new study from Belgium.

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Minority patients appear less likely than white patients to have surgeries performed by surgeons or at facilities that have handled large numbers of similar procedures in the past, according to a new report from the United States.

The recent hip-replacement recall shows just one element of the value of establishing national registries, says Dara Gantly It is one thing to recall some children’s toys or even suspect batches of medicines that don’t meet quality standards, but quite another to recall artificial hips already implanted to 3,500 Irish patients.

Long waits in the emergency department (ED) can be avoided by patients thanks to texting.