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Emergency abdominal surgery is among the most risky procedures for over-65s.
India, Nigeria, Pakistan and South Africa lose thousands of trained doctors each year, lured away to work in richer countries – at great cost to their nation’s healthcare systems.
Our immune system is controlled by our “body clock” – an intricate 24-hour system which controls how cells function.
Current assessments of the risk of blood clots are still uncertain.
When I read that Robin William’s daughter Zelda was deleting her Twitter and Instagram because of abusive messages in the aftermath of her father’s death, I recalled Richard Dawkins’ book The Selfish Gene…
Neknomination seems to have begun as a UK university phenomenon in 2012, but more recently burst into wider public consciousness in Australia, then South Africa and Canada. It has also been tragically…
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PhD Researcher, Endocrine Oncology Research Group, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Lecturer, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Lecturer in the School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences & Funded Investigator in the FutureNeuro Research Centre, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Senior Lecturer, Clinical Microbiology, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Associate Professor, Clinical Microbiology, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Consultant Microbiologist, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland and Professor and Head of Department, Clinical Microbiology, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Researcher in Interventional Cardiology, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Senior Lecturer, Centre for Positive Health Sciences, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Head of Paediatrics, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Professor, Department of Surgery and Scientific Director of Beaumont RCSI Cancer Centre, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Senior Lecturer, Centre of Positive Health Sciences, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Chair Of Cardiovascular Research, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Paediatrics and Future Neuro, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Lecturer, Centre for Positive Psychology and Health, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Head of Research Programmes, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
