Poland's 'flying doctors' fill gaps in Northern Irish health care
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Called the &quot;flying doctors,&quot; Polish doctors have become veritable part-time migrants who work regular night shifts here to fill a vaccum left by their British or Irish counterparts.
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Proposed changes to healthcare regulation in the European Union could threaten  patient care standards, doctors argue.
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Britons who can't afford private care struggle to find dentists via the National Health Service
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(InfoWorld) - Intel and the Irish government are building the largest research initiative in the world dedicated to developing health-care technologies specifically for the elderly, they said on Tuesday. Combined, Intel and the Industrial Development Agency Ireland, a government organization that seeks investments from overseas companies, are contributing $30 million over three years to the initiative, which will include collaboration with three Irish universities and 50 to 100 new researchers at Intel in Dublin. The researchers will aim to develop technologies that can allow the elderly to continue to live independently and at home. They'll focus on technologies that can improve social health and community engagement for older people, detect and prevent falls in the home, and help people with memory loss to remain independent. Some of the researchers, who will come from a variety of disciplines including ethnography and biomedical engineering, will begin by living with families around the world to study how older people interact with family members, doctors, and health-care systems. Some of the technologies that could be commercialized and that Intel has already begun to work on include home sensor networks that can detect whether an elderly person has fallen or left the oven on and alert family members. A different type of sensor network that attaches to a person's body can study the user's gait to determine whether the person is becoming prone to potentially debilitating falls. Commercialized products could use low-cost components and be paid for the same way that health-care products are paid for today, said Eric Dishman, global director of Intel's health research and innovation group, during a press conference to announce the new center. He offered an example of a tool Intel has worked on designed for Alzheimer's patients. Using primarily off-the-shelf technologies, Intel built a "caller ID on steroids" that displayed a photograph of the caller plus additional information such as people the caller and the end user know in common and the last time the caller and the end user spoke, he said. While the photograph didn't always help the end user remember the identity of the caller, the additional information sometimes did, he said. The center plans to actively share its information with other researchers and companies around the globe in hopes of attracting input from those organizations. In two to three years, the organization plans to begin publishing clinical studies and case studies about its research. While Ireland has a reputation for an educated work force that can staff such research institutions, it has a couple of other factors working against it as a location for this Intel center. For example, Ireland has one of the youngest populations in the region so doesn't represent the norm in Europe, where Intel expects that one third of the population will be over 65 years of age in 2050. Ireland also has a very poor health-care record. A 2006 report on health care in Europe executed by Health Consumer Powerhouse AB ranked Ireland 25 out of 26 European nations, in front of only Lithuania. The study examined factors such as waiting times and outcome of treatment. The Irish government has been focusing over the past couple of years on trying to attract research and development operations, to pick up the slack from manufacturing companies moving to cheaper locales. The new center is an example of the type of investment the government is looking to attract.
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Some of the world's best minds explore cures for the most difficult problems in providing quality medical care for all.
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Polish historians have recovered a Royal Air Force Halifax bomber from the Second World War and the remains of its Canadian and British crew, a find yielding treasures for a Warsaw museum that could also ...Comment
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The UK is providing 30 million euro to build a new centre for cancer research and cell biology at Queen&#39;s University in Belfast, making Northern Ireland one of Europe&#39;s leaders in the fight against cancer.
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Doctors try to balance a patient's trust with new technology.
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Whether it is herbs, homeopathy or vitamin and mineral supplements, more than a third of cancer patients in Europe use alternative medicine.
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The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, says the Irish government is studying the medical card system, with a view to making more people eligible.
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A private health care firm criticised for the way it runs its out-of-hours GP service in Wales has announced it is taking on more doctors.
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The British Medical Association (BMA) for Northern Ireland has said the proposals in Tuesdayâs English Public Health White Paper on passive smoking âdo not go far enoughâ.
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The federal Health Minister admits there are a few gaps in the new first ministers health care deal. Ujjal Dosanjh admits the agreement doesn&#39;t spell out how the government will deal with provinces that violate
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Many African countries now have more medics working abroad than they do at home, research shows.
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A leading Welsh expert in respiratory diseases says some patients are having to travel too far due to a shortage of local rehabilitation services.
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The government pledges to improve medical treatment after claims of neglect of returning UK troops.