Drug eluting stents have revolutionized coronary artery disease treatment reducing the stent renarrowing rate within six months after placement which was a limitation of early generation bare metal stents. This has widened the appeal and use of this stent option for patients with symptomatic angina or heart attack. However drug eluting stents are not without challenges […]
Students who take a post- graduate approach to studying medicine have the edge over those who enter straight from school, according to new research from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). The findings emerge as a debate rages about the pressure on Leaving Cert students to score high points in order to be […]
Professor Pat Guiry has become the first Irish academic to be elected President of the International Scientific Committee of the European Symposium of Organic Chemistry (ESOC). The pan-European committee is responsible for the biannual event that brings together hundreds of experts from academia and industry, and students whose research covers organic chemistry and related areas. […]
In a major step for structural biology, a multi-institution scientific ‘tour de force’ has produced the first structural blueprint of a complex between ‘rhodopsin’, the light sensing protein in the retina, and one of its cellular signalling partners, ‘arrestin’. The blueprint provides one of the first convincing examples of the need for an X-ray-free electron […]
A new cross-political party Oireachtas group was launched last week to tackle childhood obesity and food poverty. RTÉ presenter Miriam O’Callaghan, and Irish Heart Foundation (IHF) spokesman and Consultant Endocrinologist at St Vincent’s and Loughlinstown Hospitals in Dublin, Prof Donal O’Shea, launched the Oireachtas Children’s Future Health Group, which is chaired by Independent Senator Jillian […]
Team involving Professor Gerry McElvaney from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland involved in global study Researchers from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) have made an important breakthrough in the understanding and treatment of hereditary emphysema. The findings of this global study, published in the premier medical journal, Lancet, indicate that […]
The research is the first to robustly show that implementing earlier expert palliative care decision making and treatment results in significantly lower costs. Researchers at Trinity College Dublin and Mount Sinai in New York have just published new research which for the first time provides strong evidence on the economic benefits of early palliative care […]
The University of Limerick celebrated the graduation of 156 students today from the Graduate Entry Medical School (GEMS) and Clinical Therapies Department. Among the graduates 106 doctors were conferred with their medical degrees as they became the 5th graduating class of the Graduate Entry Medical School at the University of Limerick. 50 Clinical Therapies graduands […]
CÚRAM Initiates Another Multi-Year Grant-Funded Research and Development Collaboration Arch Prepares for First Human Trial with R&D Support CÚRAM Centre for Research in Medical Devices, a new center of excellence for research, and Arch Therapeutics, Inc. (OTCQB: ARTH) (“Arch” or the “Company”), developer of the AC5 Surgical Hemostatic Device™ (“AC5TM”), have executed a definitive collaboration […]
A recent study by scientists from Trinity College Dublin has shown how a new MRI scanning technique, which looks at sodium levels rather than water levels in the brain, offers the potential to extend the time-window during which drug therapy may be given to stroke patients. A paper on the study was recently published in […]
Obesity is considered a risk factor for diseases including diabetes, liver cirrhosis and chronic kidney disease. Adipose (fat tissue) inflammation seems to be a common denominator among these obesity-related diseases. Inflammation is part of the body’s natural response to injury. Lipoxins are molecules that help to clear or resolve inflammation. This research study set out […]
In preparation for the second intake of Paramedic Studies Practitioner Entry candidates at UL (September 2015), a team of three Emergency Medical Educators from the Graduate Entry Medical School will be the sole and first Irish representatives in Rallye Rejviz 2015 the Paramedic World Championships. Competing against over 100 emergency rescue teams from 20 countries […]
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