Medical Negligence Highlights
Friday, 10 January 2020
It’s worthwhile looking back at some of the legal develpments during the first 20 years of the 21st Century. Some of these may have a long lasting and profound impact on Irish legal landscape Cervical Check While this was a story initially broke in 2018, it continued in to 2019. There was fresh outrage
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Medical Negligence – Narcolepsy
Thursday, 05 February 2015
Medical Negligence – Narcolepsy Listen to John’s discussion: [soundcloud id=’189618836′] What is Narcolepsy? Narcolepsy is the second leading cause of excessive daytime sleepiness. The disease affects 1 in 3000 individuals, and onset is typically in childhood or early adolescence. In many cases, however, diagnosis is not made until many years after the onset of symptoms.
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Medical Negligence – You Deserve Answers
Thursday, 13 February 2014
Legal Column, South Tipp Today, 13th February 2014 Most of us, at some point in our lives, will be thankful to health professionals. We may owe them our lives, or the lives of our loved ones. Huge trust is placed in a health professional when you agree to an operation or even when you hold
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Medical Negligence: Portlaoise Maternity Hospital and Narcolepsy
Tuesday, 11 February 2014
Tipp FM Legal Slot – 11th February 2014 -Medical Negligence This morning on Tipp FM Gillian O’Mahony spoke to Seamus Martin about medical negligence in the context of the fallout from the Portlaoise Maternity Hospital baby deaths and narcolepsy. Gillian O’Mahony on Medical Negligence: Portlaoise Maternity Hospital and Narcolepsy [soundcloud id=’165872010′] Making a Claim for Medical
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Narcolepsy and the Swine Flu Vaccine
Friday, 05 October 2012
Tipp FM Legal Slot – 24th April 2012 Gillian O’Mahony on Narcolepsy and the Swine Flu Vaccine [soundcloud id=’167084325′] Download Narcolepsy Notes In the last week narcolepsy and the swine flu vaccine has been very topical – what is this about? In August 2010 the European Medicines Agency began to investigate
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Will the State compensate sufferers of Narcolepsy from Pandemrix swine flu vaccine?
Thursday, 20 September 2012
A swine flu vaccine called Pandemrix has been suspected of causing narcolepsy. Pandemrix was supplied to 30 million people in the European Union as a vaccine against the H1N1 version of swine flu. On the 24th of August Finland suspended its national vaccination programme after doctors reported cases of suspected narcolepsy after patients had been given Pandemrix. Sweden,
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Patients Suffer when the Cure is worse than the Cause
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
In the last week narcolepsy and the swine flu vaccine has been very topical, but you may be wondering what it is all about. In August 2010 the European Medicines Agency began to investigate a possible link between the swine flu vaccine and narcolepsy, following an increased number of reported cases of narcolepsy among children
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