Ireland HSE Head of Consumer Affairs, Mary Culliton, said last week that she was delighted with progress to date in rolling out the HSE’s new Comments and Complaints process, ‘Your Service, Your Say’.
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine has these tips to help people cope with the upcoming time change:
Pushing the clock ahead one hour this Sunday may create problems by tinkering with your own “body clock,” experts warn.
Research has shown that people who exercise do better on memory tests. Now a new Columbia University Medical Center study explains specifically what exercise does within the brain.
The Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities welcomed the Government?s announcement to hold an independent inquiry into the deaths of six people with learning disabilities.
Researchers at Yale and at Johns Hopkins, led by Barry Gordon, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of Therapeutic Cognitive Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins, have found that a simple blood test to measure uric acid, a measure of kidney function, might reveal a risk factor for cognitive problems and dementia in old age.
Two peak cancer groups are joining with the Commonwealth Government to coordinate research resources and expertise.
New evidence suggests that if you could choose your parents, you could reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease. Researchers from the long-standing Framingham Heart Study (FHS), a program of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health, report that people whose parents live longer were more likely to avoid developing high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and other risk factors for cardiovascular disease in middle age than their peers whose parents died younger. They also found that the risk factor advantages persisted over time.
Data from a national survey suggest that an estimated 60 million American adults are at high risk of vision loss, according to a report published in the March issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Of those adults, one in 12 cannot afford eyeglasses when needed, and about one-half do not get dilated eye examinations on a yearly basis.
This study, supported by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Nova Scotia, concludes that patients with psychiatric illness have an increased rate of death and decreased access to some procedures related to circulatory disease (such as heart disease, stroke).