The Check Up 18th November 2015
Blood donors in ‘anaemia’ alert, odds of surviving pancreatic cancer narrow in new regime & smoking makes your brain grow older faster.
Blood donors in ‘anaemia’ alert, odds of surviving pancreatic cancer narrow in new regime & smoking makes your brain grow older faster.
Lack of knowledge about psychological therapies & one Indian takeaway meal can contain daily calories requirement.
New children’s hospital hearing begins today, Tallaght Hospital to investigate claims by consultant & the winter flu has arrived in Ireland.
12,000 people over 50 have diabetes and don’t know it, ‘spare tyre’ worse than being very fat & 2,300 jobs planned for children’s hospital build.
Cost of drugs crisis has been €1bn over past five years, on-pitch alcohol advertising to be banned & nurses to ballot over possible strike action.
HPV jab given the all-clear by European watchdog & Dundalk ambulance service was reduced on night young father bled to death at home.
Majority referred to childhood obesity services ‘refused’ to attend, nurses in work-to-rule over A&E overcrowding & IMO ‘surprised’ at under 12 free GP care.
Calls for local weight management centres, unnecessary chemotheraphy for breast cancer may be reduced & fat children switch on cancer genes says research.
Fall in outpatient waiting lists, patients are waiting up to 15 months for heart bypass & HSE €325m over budget for first nine months of 2015.
Survey finds 60% of Irish people are overweight, one in five people with asthma unable to work & HSE aims for 440 extra hospital beds for winter.