Category: Health and Wellbeing
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It’s time to rethink how we do cancer research
When it comes to cancer research, treatments and care, we need a more patient-focused approach Dr Eileen Parkes.
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Personalising Your Health: A Global Imperative!
In advance of a major international conference on Precision Medicine taking place in Belfast at the end of November, Professor Mark Lawler looks at the growing interest and investment in this more personalised form of healthcare diagnosis and treatment.
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Credit Where Credit’s Due: the Trump Administration’s Proposals for Parental Leave
Professor Duncan McVicar looks at the Trump administration’s surprising call to introduce publicly-funded paid parental leave.
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Church, state and women’s healthcare in the Republic of Ireland
Dr Marie Coleman looks at the controversy in Dublin over the ownership of the proposed new maternity hospital and asks why the Irish state is reluctant to assume responsibility for providing healthcare for its citizens.
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How to teach sex education to young offenders
As sex and relationship education becomes compulsory in English schools, what about those young people in youth custody? Dr Michelle Templeton looks at the positive impact of a sex education programme she was involved in at a young offenders’ institution in Belfast.
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What schools should consider before adding mental health to the curriculum
Dr John Moriarty looks at the growing interest in mental health literacy in schools that aims to give young people the knowledge and skills to monitor and manage their own mental well-being.
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Water-retaining hydrogels – the unsung heroes of medicine
Dr Eneko Larrañeta Landa looks at how the ability of hydrogels to absorb and retain large quantities of water could be used to revolutionise medicine.
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What is happening to healthcare in Northern Ireland prisons?
The NI Prison Service has been in the spotlight recently over its handling of serious incidents of self-harm and the potential for overdoses to occur through the use of prescription medication. Dr Michelle Butler highlights that less attention has been paid to the role of the health service in these events despite significant failings on…
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Highlighting a route to a healthier world
Professor Mark Lawler addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York on precision medicine and personalised health.
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Alcohol harm minimisation-based policies in Northern Ireland
In the second part of a two-part series, John Moriarty and Andy Percy consider the influence of harm minimisation-based policies in Northern Ireland and what constitutes harmful drinking and they consider how this can be integrated into information given to young people about alcohol use.