Welcome to this week’s difficulty of The Week in Drugs – a round-up of all of the happenings on the planet of Irish medication
Limerick-born artist Donald Teskey has been introduced because the winner of the RCSI Artwork Award 2024 for his oil on canvas piece, ‘Orchestral II’. It was chosen from a shortlist of 5 items that had been the 194th RHA Annual Exhibition, Eire’s largest and longest-running exhibition of visible arts.
Now in its ninth yr, the RCSI Artwork Award celebrates the long-standing affiliation between artwork, medication and well-being. At a ceremony in RHA at present, Donald was awarded an RCSI silver medal together with a prize fund of €5,000 to progress his pactice, and a €10,000 fee to create a brand new piece for the RCSI Artwork Assortment.
All artistic endeavors, in any medium, chosen for the 194th RHA Annual Exhibition had been thought-about for the RCSI Artwork Award. The 4 different shortlisted works are Cubist Bull by John Behan RHA, Homage to Paint and Protest by Liam Belton RHA, On the Starlit Sill I Let Them Draw Close to by Eileen Leonard Sealy and The Wait by Sadhbh Mowlds. For additional details about the RHA Annual Exhibition, go to www.rhagallery.ie.
Donald Teskey, winner of the RCSI Artwork Award 2024,
together with his oil on canvas piece, ‘Orchestral II’
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Social media has are available in for lots of criticism in current weeks with the US Surgeon-Common calling for well being warnings to be positioned on the varied platforms warning of the risks to individuals – and younger individuals specifically – of overuse. It’s true. I spoke to a physician final week who advised me that he had been fairly depressed lately and had been writing miserable messages on Fb for weeks. If it wasn’t for his spouse, he advised me, he’d nonetheless be at it. She modified his password.
Personally, I don’t do social media a lot myself anymore. Ever because the selfie craze it’s simply been Meme, myself, and I.
I did converse to a different physician about my situation. “I’m hooked on social media,” I stated to him. “I don’t comply with you,” he replied.
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Johnson & Johnson has claimed the title of the world’s most beneficial and strongest pharmaceutical model, based on a new report by Model Finance. Johnson & Johnson has maintained its top-ranking place for model worth for the sixth consecutive yr and recorded a 5 per cent improve in model worth to USD $13.4 billion this yr.
The corporate lately accomplished the spinoff of its shopper enterprise, underneath the brand new mother or father firm Kenvue, which incorporates manufacturers like Band-Help, Tylenol and Neutrogena.
J & J’s restructuring mirrors a broader development amongst business leaders. Pfizer (model worth down one per cent to USD $6.1 billion) and GSK (model worth up six per cent to USD $3.8 billion) demerged its shopper well being three way partnership to create Haleon, recognized for merchandise like Sensodyne toothpaste, whereas Novartis (model worth up 10 per cent to USD $3.3 billion) spun off its Generics and Biosimilars enterprise, Sandoz. Sanofi (model worth up seven per cent to USD $4.4 billion) can also be within the technique of separating its shopper healthcare division.
Novo Nordisk (model worth USD $5.1 billion) and Lilly (model worth USD $5.9 billion) are the 2 fastest-growing pharma manufacturers this yr, up 64 per cent and 53 per cent, respectively.
Following skyrocketing demand for semaglutide underneath the model names Wegovy and Ozempic, Novo Nordisk’s has grow to be Europe’s most beneficial firm by market cap, overtaking LVMH. These manufacturers haven’t solely skilled substantial progress of their monetary forecasts however have additionally garnered vital public publicity because of the large attainable influence of a ‘remedy for weight problems’ upon fashionable humanity.
When it comes to human wishes which means that luxurious manufacturers similar to Louis Vuitton, Moet and Hennessey are all properly and good, however what individuals really need is to be skinny. “Nothing tastes pretty much as good as skinny feels,” the mannequin Kate Moss remarked as soon as. It could seem, not even champagne or cognac tastes that good.
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A exceptional story and featured in The New York Occasions Journal lately a few lady who can scent Parkinson’s Illness. The lady (Pleasure) lived in England and was planning on going to Paris to check, however as a substitute fell in love and married her fiancee. She subsequently studied to be a nurse and he to be a physician. They each graduated and life was grand.
Then he began performing weirdly. How weirdly? He arrived downstairs to a celebration of their home in tartan underwear and proceeded to sit down on a visitor! He began doing issues that had been ‘out of character’ and strange.
Anyway, what’s related for out story is that Pleasure observed his unusual behaviour – which was defined later by his prognosis of Parkinson’s Illness (PD). Then all of it made sense. His character adjustments and odd behaviour had been a part of his PD and although she had been virtually on the level of leaving him due to his behaviour.
Now residing in Scotland, Pleasure tried to return to phrases together with his prognosis. She had had an attention-grabbing life herself, being taught every kind of ‘smells’ by her grandmother. She had all the time had a delicate nostril – her grandmother was ‘hyperosmic’, and he or she inspired Pleasure to profit from her smelling talents – quizzing her on types of roses and instructing her to tell apart between the scent of leaves and the scent of the pistils and stamens.
Now, to attempt to take care of and perceive her husband’s scenario, she attended a PD assist group, the place she observed that every one the attendees smelled similar to her husband. Later, she contacted researchers working within the space of Parkinson’s illness and it seems that she will be able to, the truth is, scent the illness.
Parkinson’s is probably the most prevalent neurogenerative illness after Alzheimer’s, but additionally probably the most treatable. Present therapies handle the signs, however there is no such thing as a remedy or intervention to halt the development of the illness or reverse the harm completed to the mind. What this lady has proven is that she can’t alone detect PD in individuals who have the illness, however she will be able to additionally predict it in individuals who will later go on to develop the illness.
It’s a exceptional story and one which will result in scientists truly discovering biomarkers for PD because of the further time Pleasure may give them with PD sufferers earlier than they develop mind harm.
You may learn extra about this wonderful story within the July version of Irish Medical Occasions.
