Welcome to this week’s situation of The Week in Medication – a round-up of all of the happenings on the planet of Irish drugs
Regardless of the big cuts to most cancers analysis within the US, most cancers analysis nonetheless goes on on this a part of the world and subsequent week, Breakthrough Most cancers Analysis hosts an exhibition within the St Stephen’s Inexperienced Procuring Centre (within the previous Argos unit) to have fun that truth.
The exhibition, Most cancers Revolution: Science, Innovation and Hope, will convey collectively lived expertise, Irish-led analysis breakthroughs, and highly effective public storytelling round most cancers.
Dr Leslie O’Looney, as envisaged by AI
There was a time when a most cancers analysis was more likely to be a loss of life sentence and even the phrase ‘most cancers’ was taboo, however scientific analysis over the past 20 years has modified that paradigm.
The exhibition brings collectively ground-breaking science, cutting-edge innovation and galvanizing tales of human resilience, celebrating the wonderful progress in most cancers analysis (earlier than a lot of it involves a halt!)
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The canine days of summer time are with us and nothing a lot is occurring – except you depend the manic depth and unsatiable need for media consideration that’s the present White Home – which delivers outrageous information fodder for the plenty each day.
The most recent madness is an announcement that American states or cities who boycott Israel won’t obtain help from the Federal Emergency Administration Company (FEMA) – which is nearly actually an unlawful factor to do, however then so is kidnapping folks on the road and sending them to focus camps in El Salvador.
In the meantime, former CNN White Home correspondent Jim Acosta has ‘interviewed’ Joaquin Oliver, one of many victims of the Parkland college taking pictures in 2018. His mother and father have created an AI model of their son to ship a message on gun violence which you’ll be able to see right here.
What’s the level? One can think about the horrendous grief of the mother and father and their comprehensible struggle to cease gun violence, however is making a 25-year-old model of their lifeless son one of the simplest ways to do that and to deal with grief?
If religions have been created to permit folks to consider that their family members hadn’t in actual fact truly died, and that some day they’d be re-united with them (an unbelievable as that sounds) what occurs when folks begin creating stay bots who replicate their lifeless family members?
Additionally, I sit up for interviews with Napoleon, Alexander the Nice, Winston Churchill and lots of extra who’ve handed away, however haven’t handed their sell-by date. “Inform me, comrade Stalin, have been you shocked when Hitler broke his pact with you and invaded the Soviet Union?”
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A priest, a vicar and a rabbit attend a clinic to donate blood. The nurse in cost asks the rabbit: “Are you aware your blood sort?”
The rabbit says: “I’m in all probability a Sort O”
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The Minister for Kids, Incapacity and Equality, Norma Foley, inspired survivors yesterday to use for illustration alternatives in three key buildings. Purposes are invited from survivors and affected individuals who’re within the 4 positions obtainable on the Nationwide Centre for Remembrance steering group to be a part of the decision-making course of.
Minister Norma Foley
This can be a direct response to the suggestions obtained from a sequence of in-person engagement occasions with survivors that have been held in Dublin, Galway, Cork and London between October 2024 and February 2025, in addition to a web-based occasion.
There are alternatives for survivors to hitch the Nationwide Museum of Eire’s Lived Expertise skilled panels for the Nationwide Centre for Remembrance in order that the imaginative and prescient to honour all survivors equally and authentically within the Nationwide Centre is achieved.
There are additionally as much as 35 positions obtainable for survivors on the Particular Advocate for Survivors Advisory Council.
Expressions of curiosity in these positions are invited from Survivors and Affected Individuals of:
- Industrial Faculty Establishments and Reformatory Establishments
- Magdalen Laundries
- Mom and Child and County Residence Establishments
- Boarded out preparations
- Historic adoption practices and unlawful start registration
- Any of the above who stay abroad
Minister Foley is encouraging survivors to think about these alternatives.
“It’s important that the voice and views of survivors and affected individuals are on the coronary heart of the event of the Nationwide Centre. I’m eager to make sure that there’s the very best illustration on the steering group for the Nationwide Centre for Remembrance. I used to be happy to safe settlement at Cupboard earlier this summer time for survivor representatives to have their locations on the group and would encourage folks to use for these positions and for the inventive panels being established by the Nationwide Museum of Eire.’’
“Since her appointment, the Particular Advocate has engaged with over 1,200 folks each right here in Eire and overseas. She is now transferring to determine an Advisory Council of Survivors to assist her in her ongoing work. I wish to thank survivors and former residents for his or her continued engagement with the Particular Advocate, and encourage them to think about making use of for the Advisory Council. It’s only by means of ongoing engagement that we will make sure the voices of survivors proceed to be a central enter in authorities deliberations which have an effect on them.”
Anybody who’s eager about these alternatives ought to full the Expression of Curiosity Type right here. Individuals can categorical an curiosity in multiple place, if they need to take action.
Purposes are open from in the present day (August 6) and stay open till September 19, 2025.
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The World Medical Soccer Championships came about in Dublin final month in UCD from July 5-12 and for the primary time, Eire fielded a ladies’s crew. Congratulations to all concerned – particularly the Irish males’s crew who got here near matching their victory in 2023. Sadly, they misplaced on penalties to the British crew within the last.
Nonetheless, there have been some nice particular person performances for the Irish – the highest aim scorer within the competitors was Dr David Gildea, and the goalkeeper of the event was Dr Padraic McCarthy. Dr McCarthy stated later that ‘the Irish contingent left the championship with heads held excessive’. He described it as an ‘unforgettable week in UCD’. The subsequent competitors takes place in Costa Rica.
