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Recently, the National Clinical Programme in Surgery (NCPS) published a document, which looked at the effect Covid-19 has had on…
A HSE decision to withhold payments to GPs poses a serious threat to the delivery of antenatal care. The history…
The decision by NICE to pause the publication of new guidelines for ME/CFS was misjudged On 17 August the UK’s…
When the Sláintecare Report was published in May 2017 the hope was that, finally, the Irish healthcare service had thelong-term…
In this issue of the Medical Independent (MI), our main feature focuses on the uncertainty of the coming winter period.…
The pandemic has made it clear that the aims of the media and those of science are often very different…
During the Covid-19 pandemic, much focus has been on the new. To control the spread of the virus, social distancing…
The naming of diseases can sometimes bring up unexpected ethical issues There is a long tradition of naming diseases after…
Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic and the remarkable breakthroughs seen in vaccinology, another virus was the centrepiece of recent medical…
In the previous issue of the Medical Independent, columnist Dr Michael Conroy wrote about the significant personal and professional disruption…
Recent discussions on the effects of the menopause have thankfully brought the issue more into the open It started with…
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