Dr Joe FitzGibbon

14/12/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzP3umk8TWA&t=4s
Struggling to understand weight management? Listen to this excellent talk from someone who knows what they are talking about!

Professor Donal O'Shea tells us that the arrival of new obesity treatments has the potential to transform the attitude to obesity as a chronic disease for th...

13/10/2021

With sincere apologies for all those wondering why you are having trouble getting through to us this week:

16/06/2021

Moon jelly bloom (Irish waters are green, go figure)

19/08/2020

For all you nature lovers out there, you were right, honey is best...

Background Antibiotic over prescription for upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs) in primary care exacerbates antimicrobial resistance. There is a need for effective alternatives to antibiotic prescribing. Honey is a lay remedy for URTIs, and has an emerging evidence base for its use. Honey has...

19/08/2020

For all nature lovers out there, honey is best for upper respiratory infections

Background Antibiotic over prescription for upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs) in primary care exacerbates antimicrobial resistance. There is a need for effective alternatives to antibiotic prescribing. Honey is a lay remedy for URTIs, and has an emerging evidence base for its use. Honey has...

16/04/2020

Wearing a mask reduces the transmission of virus from you (the wearer) to others...Click, listen and observe this cool experiment

Correspondence from The New England Journal of Medicine — Visualizing Speech-Generated Oral Fluid Droplets with Laser Light Scattering

03/04/2020

5 or 6 years ago, at an international allergy meeting, I sat beside Bill and exchanged pleasantries. It was 7 am. He was dressed in suit and tie. He contributed to the discussion with clarity. A gentleman and an inspiration. RIP

Dr William Frankland, known as "the grandfather of allergy", developed the idea of a pollen count.

25/08/2018

Glutamine: it does help to heal a 'leaky gut' (but you already knew that!)

24/08/2018

Bad news for alcohol lovers! When all is said and done, there are no health benefits to any amount of alcohol 😥

Alcohol use is a leading risk factor for global disease burden and causes substantial health loss. We found that the risk of all-cause mortality, and of cancers specifically, rises with increasing levels of consumption, and the level of consumption that minimises health loss is zero. These results s...

02/06/2018

As we've always said, 'Allergies are not to be sneezed at!' They have a profound effect on quality of life. We can fix that!

Allergy Volume 0, Issue 0 BRIEF COMMUNICATION Depressed mood is associated with loss of productivity in allergic rhinitis A. P. Campbell Department of Otolaryngology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA Department of Otolaryngology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, MA, USASearch for....