Adapting form to function: can simulation serve our healthcare system and educational needs?

Can We Add Auricular Composite Graft to Our Rhinoplasty Armamentarium?

BACKGROUND The ala of the nose, with its particular texture and characteristics, poses both aesthetically and functionally intriguing challenges and is rather problematic regarding choices for reconstructive methods. Both flaps and grafts have been used to restore natural structure of nasal ala. The present study summarizes a ten-year experience of reconstructive surgery using small composite...

Our human genome--how can it serve us well?

Good public health, like all good medicine, rests on empirical data of high quality. If we have records of the incidence of disease, and of how this responds to interventions, we will be able to learn the best approaches for each community. Nowhere is this more true than for genetic diseases, where medical knowledge is increasing rapidly and personal issues, cultural differences and ethical dil...

How Can Bee Colony Algorithm Serve Medicine?

Healthcare professionals usually should make complex decisions with far reaching consequences and associated risks in health care fields. As it was demonstrated in other industries, the ability to drill down into pertinent data to explore knowledge behind the data can greatly facilitate superior, informed decisions to ensue the facts. Nature has always inspired researchers to develop models of ...

Responding to Migrant and Refugee Healthcare Needs in Ireland

Human migration, both voluntary and precipitated by conflict and persecution, continues to pose challenges to the healthcare infrastructure of host countries. The scale of international migration to Ireland has increased substantially in recent years. Both economic migrants and refugees have complex health needs including those related to infectious diseases, malnourishment, gender-specific iss...

Our healthcare system is failing.