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The Injuries Board which is the state body that processes personal injury claims has published figures that confirm that in 2012 162 people were killed on Irish roads. There were also 302 serious injury collisions. The Injuries Board has claimed that there may even be more serious injury accidents as they made 529 high value […]

A Recent study has shown that some serious infections actually originate at hospitals and cost billions of euros in medical treatment each year. The study which was carried out by The Journal of Internal Medicine has revealed that hospital acquired infections (HAI) contracted during medical treatment costs about $9 billion annually to treat. The authors […]

The use of codeine for analgesia in children and adolescents under 18 has been restricted after an EU review. The review was triggered by reports in children who received codeine for pain control after tonsillectomy or adenoidectomy, for obstructive sleep apnoea and who developed rare, but life-threatening adverse events, including death. Codeine is converted into […]

The HSE is set to implement a new incident management policy which will allow for “quick local reviews” in a bid to speed-up examinations of adverse medical events and medical errors. In the aftermath of the Savita Halappanavar tragedy, Savita’s widower Praveen criticised the fact that the team initially appointed to conduct the HSE investigation […]

Amy Lackey, a mother of 2 children who sustained injuries to her neck, shoulder and back when she was travelling as a passenger in the upstairs compartment of a bus when it was rear ended by a vehicle on the Ballyfermot road on 16th April 2008 has been awarded £45,000 in damages by the High […]

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) has advised that it is currently investigating a food poisoning outbreak of the hepatitis A virus associated with the consumption of imported frozen berries.   As a precautionary measure, the FSAI is advising consumers to boil all imported frozen berries for at least 1 minute prior to eating. […]

Research has shown that most medical negligence claims against doctors are the result of drug errors and misdiagnosis, particularly of cancer, heart attacks and meningitis. Researchers analysed 34 studies published over the past two years. In the United States primary care doctors accounted for between 7.6 per cent and 16 per cent of all negligence […]

GlaxoSmithKline, in response to lawsuits brought by 8 U.S. states has agreed to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to settle legal actions over the diabetes drug Avandia (rosiglitazone). The drug maker announced it will pay $229 million and  that the settlement was within the provisions it had set aside for litigation previously. Last year […]

Metal-on-metal hip replacement devices consist of ball and socket components that are made of metal. Because of metal’s durability, metal-on-metal devices were expected to last longer than other hip implants. An estimated 80,000 Irish people have been fitted with metal-on-metal hip implants. Before they came on the market many metal-on-metal hip replacement devices underwent very […]

Hip replacement patients who have received metal-on-metal hip replacement devices may be at risk for serious health problems including cobalt and chromium poisoning, adverse local tissue reactions, pseudotumor formation and metallosis. These conditions can cause a metal-on-metal hip replacement to fail within just a few years of surgery and lead to risky revision surgery to […]