# Medicine

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# CT scans

New way to avoid risky biopsies in diagnosis of deadly lung disease

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis kills as many people as breast cancer does every year in the United States.

7.3k

Feb 18th 2014, 6:45 AM

# Multiple Sclerosis

HSE spent €7.5m providing injectable treatment for MS patients in 2013

In the first ten months of this year, the HSE paid for 814 patients to receive the treatment.

6.7k

Dec 30th 2013, 6:45 AM

Voices

Damien Kiberd: Drop the goody-two-shoes approach to economic policy

Job figure increases are welcome – but Government needs to be bolshy to grab the three things it needs for proper growth.

Dec 22nd 2013, 8:30 AM

# flu be gone

All set for Christmas, but now you're sick? What should you take to help?

Confused about over-the-counter medicines? If you’re sick what should you ask for?

18.7k

Dec 21st 2013, 8:45 AM

# Antibiotics

Ireland's casual attitude to antibiotics leading to 'alarming rise' in superbugs

A new campaign is being launched today to encourage better practice in relation to antibiotics among both doctors and patients.

7.8k

Nov 22nd 2013, 6:30 AM

# Medicine

Resistance crisis looms as antibiotics 'handed out like cough sweets'

Experts have called on global healthcare systems to take action in key areas.

8.6k

Nov 17th 2013, 8:00 AM

# Health

Health Ministers announce reduction in cholesterol medicine pricing

Patients can expect to save up to 70 per cent on cholesterol medication from today.

6.8k

Nov 1st 2013, 6:50 AM

# misperceptions

A spaceship crash, near apocalypse, and six other major miscalculations and mistakes

You’ll be making sure your i’s are dotted and your t’s crossed after this.

11.2k

Oct 26th 2013, 9:15 AM

# Health

Strokes among younger people are increasing worldwide

A major new study also shows that strokes caused by high blood pressure and unhealthy lifestyles were now to blame for over half of stroke deaths.

9.2k

Oct 24th 2013, 7:15 AM

# Africa

Charity tells of "appalling scenes of murder" in Central African Republic

Médicins sans Frontiéres says that a religious division in the country has left tens of thousands fleeing violence.

6.7k

Oct 16th 2013, 2:52 PM

Voices

Column: NCHD working hours are part of a bigger picture for young Irish workers

While the pressures on young doctors are unique, Government decisions have focused the worst effects of the crisis on workers who are 35 and under across all sectors, write Dan Hayden and Dr Antoine Murray.

552

Oct 8th 2013, 7:15 AM

Voices

Column: Happy 60th Birthday to the science that makes transplantation work

Until Peter Medawar’s ground-breaking article 60 years ago, the idea of using one person’s body parts to save the life of another was little more than science fiction, writes Prof Daniel M. Davis.

Oct 7th 2013, 1:00 PM

# six pack

Auto-Brewery syndrome causes you to brew beer in your gut

Well that would save us a lot of time.

1.5k

Sep 19th 2013, 11:39 AM

# Snip

Man live-tweets his own vasectomy

Don’t pretend you’re not curious.

2.2k

Sep 9th 2013, 7:30 PM

Voices

Column: The politics of food – why we need to take the power back

The failure of our government to challenge Big Pharma and Big Food shows how effective lobbying by large corporations can be. It is left to concerned individuals, as part of civil society, to challenge a pathogenic status quo, writes Frank Armstrong.

Sep 8th 2013, 12:00 PM

# Your Say

Poll: Do you shop across the border to save money?

A report suggests high medicine prices are pushing consumers across the border, but prices of other items are leveling up. So do you travel to Northern Ireland to shop?

13.4k

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Aug 24th 2013, 10:17 AM

# Holles Street

Doctor angered at ‘outrageous breach of patient confidentiality’ at Holles Street

The Irish Times reports this morning that a termination of a twin pregnancy was carried out on a patient at risk of sepsis – the first to be performed under new legislation.

30.1k

Aug 23rd 2013, 8:15 AM

# Medicine

Most young doctors are female while most older doctors are male

Over one in every three doctors working here qualified outside of Ireland.

12.2k

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Aug 20th 2013, 6:00 PM

# medecins sans frontieres

Médecins Sans Frontières closes centres in Somalia after attacks on staff

After 22 years of work, MSF blames civilians leaders’ tolerance of these abuses.

4.1k

Aug 14th 2013, 1:21 PM

# Addiction

Researchers discover how the brain 'learns' cocaine addiction

Researchers said that knowing this detail may help identify new treatments for addicts.

7.7k

Aug 2nd 2013, 6:30 AM

# GP

GPs have this stark warning for their former colleague James Reilly...

The NAGP say the latest round of cuts will undermine patient care and could result in GP practices closing.

9.6k

Jul 18th 2013, 4:20 PM

# good deeds

Kid asks for pizza from hospital window... internet sends dozens

Hazel Hammersley was bored while awaiting cancer treatment, so she put up a sign.

28.5k

Jul 16th 2013, 4:30 PM

# Cuts

Doctors warn patients: Expect long waiting times to see your GP

Doctors say government cuts will lead to the ‘normalisation’ of long waiting times. “This move is not only mean-spirited, it is stupid,” said one GP.

9.7k

Jul 2nd 2013, 11:37 AM

# Research

Good news, women: RCSI finds oestrogen cuts risk of liver and heart disease

The team said their research may help to develop new drugs to prevent liver and heart disease in women.

4.2k

Jul 1st 2013, 8:15 PM

Voices

Column: A campaign of misinformation has turned the public against doctors

Dangerously long working hours, understaffing, and lower pay than you might think – these are the things the HSE doesn’t want you to know about how hospital doctors are treated, a junior doctor writes.

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Jul 1st 2013, 7:30 PM

# Drugs

Generic drugs are more expensive in Ireland than the EU

Although we are taking more generic drugs, it had not led to any savings for the State or the cash-paying patient.

9.8k

Jun 27th 2013, 8:52 PM

# Poll

Poll: Do you request generic drugs?

A new report has said that Irish people and the Irish State are not saving as much as they should by using generic drugs.

6.9k

Jun 27th 2013, 10:12 AM

# All Ears

Watch this 3-year-old hear his dad's voice for the first time

Born totally deaf, this is the moment Grayson Clamp first heard the words ‘I love you’.

3.0k

Jun 21st 2013, 9:18 AM

# drug prices

Irish drug prices 'now matching European average' - drugs firms

Market research commissioned by pharmaceuticals firms suggests its members’ medicines match an average European price.

5.0k

Jun 20th 2013, 6:45 AM

# Healthscare

Safety warning over giving codeine tablets to under-18s

The European Medicines Agency says codeine, which is converted to morphine in the body, can pose problems for kids.

15.7k

Jun 17th 2013, 9:48 AM

# Annual Report

35 new complaints a month against doctors to Medical Council

That’s an increase of 12 per cent between 2011 and 2012, according to the council’s annual report.

8.4k

May 30th 2013, 1:00 PM

# Ouch

Man had pencil lodged in his head for 15 years

Before having it surgically extracted. OW.

15.5k

May 30th 2013, 10:04 AM

Voices

Column: Small and mighty – why nanoscience is booming in Ireland

Ten years ago, the global market for nano-enabled materials was €420 million. In 2015, it will be $2.5 trillion. Nanoscience is the future and Ireland is very much part of it, writes John Boland.

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May 27th 2013, 7:30 PM

# what's your secret?

'You can't just stop': The science behind the decision to retire (or keep going)

One of the world’s leading experts in sports medicine explains the intricacies of what it really means to ‘call time’.

3.0k

May 25th 2013, 8:14 AM

Voices

Column: Plants are at the heart of many crucial global issues facing us today

The economic and societal importance of plants is hard to underestimate; in order to meet the global challenges facing us today, we need to invest time and money into this sector, writes Eoin Lettice.

3.5k

May 18th 2013, 1:30 PM

# Your Say

Poll: Do you read the product information on your medicines?

Have your say…

7.7k

May 6th 2013, 1:54 PM

# Medicine

3 in 5 people read product information on prescription medication: IMB

Meanwhile, just one in two people read the information supplied with over-the-counter medicines, according to a new Irish Medicines Board survey.

4.2k

May 6th 2013, 12:15 PM

# Opt For Life

Campaign to reform Irish organ donation practices spearheaded by GAA pundit Brolly

The former Derry player was lauded last year for his selfless gesture in donating a kidney to his friend Shane Finnegan.

4.5k

May 1st 2013, 7:10 AM

# danger

Drugs bought on the internet 'can contain rat poison', warn pharmacists

Pharmacists have said people who buy drugs online are risking their health – and possibly their life.

7.4k

Apr 28th 2013, 7:30 AM

# Biting

Not just Suarez: Plastic surgeons handle as many as 200 bites every year

The Irish Association of Plastic Surgeons has taken the opportunity of the publicity surrounding biting this week to warn of the consequences of serious biting.

6.6k

Apr 26th 2013, 6:45 AM