Fortnightly analysis of emissions from a proposed incinerator does not constitute “continuous monitoring”, leaving locals potentially exposed to unsafe dioxin levels, an expert in industrial process instrumentation has warned.

Cannabis use among school-going teenagers in Cork is higher than among their peers and young adults nationally, research shows.

More and more families are experiencing mental health problems and when they do, services are often inadequate, with an over-reliance on medication, according to a report published today.

Student Colin Bradley from Mallow, Co Cork, is the main driver behind an initiative at University College Cork he hopes will drive home the message “it’s ok not to feel ok, and it’s absolutely ok to ask for help.”

The arts and sciences might not often merge in universities, but a medical consultant has combined them in a unique way for an exhibition at UCC’s school of medicine.

A major “health plan” is to be drawn up for Cork City following its designation by the World Health Organisation as a “healthy city”.

YOUNG people are increasingly becoming addicted to tranquillisers such as Valium and Xanax — known on the street as “sweets” and “smarties” — and are running up massive debts to buy them.

A LITHUANIAN doctor accused of professional misconduct and poor professional performance stormed out of an Irish Medical Council (IMC) hearing in Dublin yesterday.

A DOCTOR who worked in an out-of-hours GP service in the south has been found guilty of poor professional performance by a Medical Council fitness-to-practise inquiry.

A DOCTOR has defended claims that he missed a heart attack when a patient came to him complaining of chest pains.

MISTAKES can be made in any profession but those who make them must be man enough to put their hands up, Superintendent Martin Dorney told the Medical Council inquiry in Cork just over a week ago.

WHEN Pauline Dorney asked her family doctor if her husband would be around to see his son graduate from college, he could not answer.

A fitness to practice inquiry into allegations of “irresponsible” prescribing by a Cork GP was adjourned unexpectedly yesterday after it emerged she had failed to provide key patient medical notes to the hearing.

A VERDICT of “unascertained death” has been recorded after a bar manager was found dead following after a golf outing.

A MOTHER-OF-TWO said she was treated like a “guinea pig” by the health system after being prescribed a painkiller that left her seriously ill.

Caroline O’Doherty

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