Earlier this month I attended the inaugural International Association for Music and Medicine conference in Limerick, hosted by the University of Limerick’s Irish World Academy of Music and Dance in association with UL’s… Continue reading
As a child growing up in the seventies, I loved watching Jamie Summers, the Bionic Woman, on TV on saturday afternoons. Lindsay Wagner, the actress who played the role of Summers, is now focussing her hero powers… Continue reading
Many Irish breast cancer patients are benefiting from being able to join clinical trials that were not available in this country before, a major international conference on breast cancer in Galway has heard. Prof… Continue reading
Music directly affects the heart, arteries and lungs in ways that may be therapeutically useful, a study has shown. Researchers in Italy who played random classical tracks to 24 volunteers found that music… Continue reading
AN X-RAY and a bag of oranges, anyone? It makes perfect sense to Dr Preston Maring. In the lobby of Kaiser Permanente’s Oakland Medical Center, Dr Maring says, he’d regularly pass vendors selling… Continue reading
“We need to remember what we have learned in the past to engage with the present”, wrote Tony Bates in Mind Moves in the Irish Times yesterday. “Every experience has taught us something”… Continue reading
I am living proof of the need for early detection of breast cancer. I presented to my GP with a lump, which I discovered myself in May 2004. My GP dismissed the lump as… Continue reading
IT SEEMS LIKE the perfect combination – a substance that kills cancer cells while sparing healthy cells, writes Claire O’Connell in today’s Irish Times. Not only that, the biochemical in question is involved… Continue reading
This public symposium will be chaired by Dr John Bowman, broadcaster and author, and Dr Muiris Houston of the Irish Times. It takes place on Wednesday 13 May as part of the 7th International… Continue reading
I came across an article recently in the Irish Times on the Shekina Sculpture Garden, in Co Wicklow. Described as a modern sacred space, it is a peaceful garden with a pond, shrubs and trees and… Continue reading
