Eamonn Brady MPSI provides a clinical overview of wound care Pressure ulcers are lesions caused by unrelieved pressure that results in damage to the underlying...
Features
The Health Effects of Exotic Red Teas
Dr Des Corrigan puts the kettle on and looks at the properties of a variety of teas A relatively trivial if upsetting consequence of “The...
The Impact of Spices on Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity
Dr Des Corrigan adds a little spice to the research on the potential benefits of some dual-use plants "Lose weight!” was the blunt response by...
New Focus on the Date-Rape Drugs GHB and GBL
Given events in the UK, Dr Des Corrigan advises caution over a possible emerging subculture of ‘date-rape’ drugs in Ireland The reporting on several high-profile...
The bitter truth behind those trendy summer spritzes
Dr Des Corrigan looks at the crossover between food and beverage and medicinal use of a variety of plants As I was cocooning, the prospect...
No laughing matter
Dr Des Corrigan on the increasing abuse of laughing gas A recent RTÉ news item showed volunteers cleaning-up rivers in Dublin, including one in Tallaght, where...
5 ‘herbs’ for Arthritic Knees?
Dr Des Corrigan asks how many of the numerous products in pop-up advertisements deserve the title of ‘herbs’ I presume I am not the only one...
Fronting Up
With a new lockdown now in place, Fintan Moore considers how ‘battle fatigue’ is setting in for a lot of people So we’re now seven...
Refereeing the breakdown
Fintan Moore looks at the debate on breaks to reduce pharmacist fatigue and finds that there are more layers to this onion A topic of...
The Game of the Name
In the world of pharmacy, there are some phenomena that have no convenient name. Inspired by Douglas Adams, Fintan Moore tries to remedy that situation...
A pointed question
Fintan Moore explains why he didn’t previously participate in the flu vaccination scheme and why that may now change While I think the introduction of...
Experts … What do they know?
Dealing with Covid-19 might have been easier if some people had put their mouths in lockdown, writes Fintan Moore One of the downsides of freedom...
Retail revolution
The pandemic may present an opportunity for retailers to take the politicians to task, writes Fintan Moore The attitude of official Ireland to retailers seems...
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Dé Domhnaigh seo caite, léigh mé alt suimiúil bunaithe ar an nanaitheicneolaíocht agus a hacmhainneacht sa troid in aghaidh SARS-CoV-2. An Saotharlann NEIDL in Ollscoil...
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Mar is eol dúinn, tá brú ar an rialtas comhairle a chur ar fháil mar gheall arbreis vitimín D a thógáil mar chosaint ar CoVid...
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Le déanaí, d’fhógair comhlacht Indiach ‘Serum Institute of India’ go dtáirgfidh siad 60 milliún dáileoga i mbliana, de vacsaín indéanta don galar ‘CoVid 19’. Tá...
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Ciorcal an imní i gcomparáid ciorcal faoi do smacht Samhlaigh clár dairt nó sprioc cosúil leis, is é an imlíne is faide amach ciorcal d’imní....
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Ról an Chógaiseora san Éigeandáil Dhomhanda Mar chógaiseoir caithimid an lá ar fad ag plé agus ag déanamh cinneadh. Ó am go ham athraíonn sé...
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Agus mé ag scríobh an t-alt seo, níl muid ach cúpla lá amach ón toghchán. Tá an saol ‘s a mháthair ag súil le toradh...
Vested interest means Boris Johnson has a fat chance of getting us thin
Terry Maguire chews the fat on the powers behind the obesity epidemic UK PM Boris Johnson contracted Covid-19 back in March and suffered significant symptoms,...
Statins are they really good?
Terry Maguire looks more closely at the evidence for statin use, including the potential side-effects I came to statin treatment in a bizarre way. I...
Opium of the People
A certain drug stands out in a recent report on the medicines used and abused in Northern Ireland, writes Terry Maguire Publication of the Statistics...
Looking good for the pandemic… let’s mask up
Terry Maguire looks at the evidence for the usefulness of mask-wearing and the type of face-coverings that are most efficient My daughter, who studied fashion...
The Fat Emperor and the evidence for lockdown?
When it comes to when and how we should reopen the economy, there are very few dispassionate voices but the data is emerging, writes Terry...
Never waste a crisis
There’s a certain type of person who takes advantage of the Covid-19 crisis, writes Terry Maguire “The good lack all conviction and the worst are...
A man holding a thesaurus meanders into a tavern…
‘It’s only words’, but how we use them to manage interactions at the pharmacy counter is important, writes Ultan Molloy I’m reminded after a recent...
A big month for Irish Pharmacy
Ultan Molloy discusses whether some recent developments will turn out to be good for pharmacists and their patients What a big month September was for...
Coming to you in Calibri
Ultan Molloy explores the value of innovation, in fonts and in pharmacy Colm O’Donnell from Sligo plays both flute and fiddle, and he reckons that...
As the lockdown loosens…
As we slowly emerge from lockdown, perhaps it’s time to count our blessings, writes Ultan Molloy As the lockdown loosens, and we open up the...
‘Entitlement’
Ultan Molloy does some soul-searching and asks the question, what exactly are we ‘entitled’ to in life? This is a word that has come to...
‘Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana’
Adversity resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic has strengthened the bond between pharmacists and their customers, writes Ultan Molloy Another month has flown by. I’ve been...