Care at home

The DSP Toolkit guide section 4 covers passwords and 4.5.4 asks the specific question: How does your organisation make sure that staff, directors, trustees, and volunteers use good password practice?…

‘Sudocrem’ is a trusted and familiar name to parents of babies, care workers, nurses and the general public. In 1931, Dublin Professor of Pharmacy Thomas Smith created an antiseptic healing…

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disorder causing stiff and painful joints. Exercise is challenging for those with this condition – but not, it seems, just because of painful joints.…

Cyberattack on the Health Service Executive (HSE) Early last Friday, the HSE announced it had temporarily shut down IT systems, after it was targeted in a ransomware attack, causing major…

COVID-19 Indian Variant Can we rely on mass vaccination to negate the harm this new variant might inflict? The answer to this question is unknown. Data from Britain suggests that…

In a press release on April 30th, which was updated on the gov.ie website on May 11th, the Department of Health announced that the government has now given approval to…

New findings in the medical understanding of high blood pressure (Irish Medical Times, 12/5/2021) Past studies suggested that the risk of a heart attack begins to increase when a diastolic (lower)…