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Researchers say teaching materials play down harms and shift responsibility on to young people

The blood test for people with Type 1 diabetes may allow misdiagnosed patients to stop taking insulin altogether.

The blood test for people with Type 1 diabetes may allow some patients to stop taking insulin altogether.

Karen Doyle, a senior lecturer in physiology at NUI Galway and a researcher at Cúram, is a former vice-president of Neuroscience Ireland.

Mora Claramita is a Professor in Medical and Health Professions Education at Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia, and a general practitioner. Her research activity focuses on building more data and observations about the relationship between health providers and patients in Asia, as the cultural context can be very different from Western societies.

The application form says the new secretary-general of the Department of Health must have a "particular blend of resilience and flexibility needed" to manage the challenges and complexities of the health service. Resilience is certainly a word those who have dealt with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform secretary-general Robert Watt would use about him. Flexibility less so. His appointment, albeit on an interim basis for now, as the top civil servant in the Department of Health, has c...