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Obesity – not just a question of willpower

Weight loss efforts are difficult, not because of a character flaw or lack of motivation and not because of the wrong diet or inactivity. When patients struggle with weight they are struggling with a real medical condition that goes undiagnosed and untreated in the vast majority of people.

Obesity has long...
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Infectious diseases

Stepping up to the plate in a national emergency

“For the college, the biggest challenge has been constantly adapting to the changing landscape, ensuring we are getting important information out to GPs and to the general public and adapting how we work to cope with the rapidly developing crisis. I really think that the College and GPs have stepped up to the...
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General medicine

Why things will never be the same again

The GPs of Ireland have taken on without demur a load of extra work and danger. With many squirts of the sanitiser we have logged on and played a full and unreserved part in the national plan to contain the coronavirus.

We organised our practices to make it safe for patients and staff. They began to resemble...
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General medicine

Antimicrobial resistance - an end to medicine as we know it

Alexander Fleming was not a tidy man. His laboratory was constantly cluttered with various bacteriological experiments. One day in 1928, when he was tidying up some Petri dishes on which he had been culturing staphylococcus bacteria, he noticed that one of the dishes contained the growth of a curious mould....
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Health services

Climate change and health: an overview

Climate change is a reality and is happening now. It will affect every aspect of our lives over the next few decades and way into the future.^1,3 It is not just an environmental issue but has major economic, political, social, cultural, educational, security and of course, health implications. As regards the...
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