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Loci Orthopaedics raises €2.75m in funding
NUI Galway-based medical device spin-out company, Loci Orthopaedics have announced the closing of a €2.75 million seed round investment to commercialise a new orthopaedic joint implant for a…
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Innovation
NUI Galway students develop website to tackle child obesity
Five students from the MSc in Information Systems Management course at NUI Galway have developed and launched the website ‘PrimaryFit’ under the guidance of their lecturer, Dr Trevor…
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New Outcomes Framework to be published, as recommended by Sláintecare
Minister for Health, Simon Harris and Minister of State at the Department of Health, Catherine Byrne have announced a strengthening of the Healthy Ireland programme. The Government has…
Innovation
New initiative will see 250 extra cataract procedures in Nenagh this year and up to 10 times that next year
A stand-alone high-volume consultant-led cataract theatre by the University of Limerick Hospital Group in Nenagh Hospital has opened as part of the Government’s Waiting List Action Plan. Health…
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Minister Harris and Minister Byrne publish 2017 Annual Report of Tobacco Free Ireland Action Plan
Minister for Health Simon Harris and Minister of State at the Department of Health Catherine Byrne have welcomed the publication of the 2017 Annual Report on the Tobacco…
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Women are Six Times More Likely to Die from Cardiovascular Disease than Breast Cancer
Statistics show that women are six times more likely to die of cardiovascular disease than breast cancer, the Urgent Cardiac Care Nursing Team in the Mater Private Hospital…
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Biopharma industry’s latest price drops save €15m on Government’s medicines bill, says IPHA
Ireland’s research-based pharmaceutical industry is set to save the Government some €15 million on medicines by implementing price reductions for more than 750 individual products. Under the Framework…
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Pause in the use of Transvaginal Mesh Devices
The Minister for Health Simon Harris TD has announced that the Department’s Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr. Tom O’Connell has requested the Health Service Executive (HSE) to pause…
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Jobs boost for Limerick as medical tech firm opens Centre of Excellence
Medical technology firm Becton Dickinson has opened a new research facility at Plassey Technological Park in Limerick, adding 85 new jobs. The new global research facility is expected…
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NUI Galway academic receives SFI-HRB-Wellcome Investigator Award
Professor Uri Frank from the Centre for Chromosome Biology at NUI Galway has received an Investigator Award through the SFI-HRB-Wellcome Partnership, for his research into the ‘Mechanisms that…
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