Irish journal of medical science
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Biography Historical Article
Wilde's worlds: Sir William Wilde in Victorian Ireland.
Other contributors to this collection have evoked the disparate worlds inhabited by Sir William Wilde. ⋯ A variety of close British Isles parallels can be drawn between Wilde and his cohort in the medical elite of Dublin and their clinical peers in Edinburgh and London both in terms of clinical practice and self-presentation and in terms of the social and political challenges facing their respective ancient regime hegemonies in an age of democratic radicalisation. The shared ideological interests of Wilde and his cohort, however, were also challenged by the socio-political particularities and complexities of Ireland during the first half of the nineteenth century culminating in the catastrophe of the Great Famine. William Wilde saw the practice of scientific medicine as offering a means of deliverance from historical catastrophe for Irish society and invoked a specifically Irish scientific and medical tradition going back to the engagement with the condition of Ireland by enlightened medical men in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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Low bone mineral density (BMD) is common in older people with stroke, particularly in the paretic limb. Younger people with acquired brain injury (ABI), of all causes, are at increased risk of low BMD. ⋯ Osteopenia and osteoporosis are common in young adults with ABI compared with the general population. Bone heath monitoring should form part of the long-term follow-up of this patient group.
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Biography Historical Article
Sir William Wilde and provision for the blind in nineteenth-century Ireland.
As Assistant Commissioner for the Census of Ireland Sir William Wilde worked as an early epidemiologist, providing information regarding the deaf-and-dumb and the blind in mid-nineteenth-century Ireland. As a social agitator he focussed the attention of the authorities to the plight of the blind and their inability to earn a living and support themselves. This paper highlights his contribution to the provision for the blind in Ireland.
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Adjuvant endocrine therapy for at least 5 years improves oncological outcomes in oestrogen receptor-positive breast cancer. Adherence rates to prescribed endocrine therapy are low and the search for modifiable causes of this continues. The aim of this study was to assess adherence rates in an Irish cohort of breast cancer patients prescribed adjuvant endocrine therapy and to assess modifiable factors associated with suboptimal adherence. ⋯ Endocrine therapy adherence is suboptimal in almost one-third of patients in our cohort. Appropriate assessment and management of side effects and negative emotions, combined with direction of patients to accurate internet sources of information, could help improve endocrine therapy adherence in women with early-stage breast cancer.
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Historical Article
Chairman's opening address at the Sir William Wilde Bi-Centenary Symposium.