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  Huntington’s disease is a rare and complex hereditary neurological condition. The symptoms of Huntington’s include problems with movement, cognition, and mood or behaviour but vary from person to person. The majority of people present with movement disorders, but certainly not all people present that way, and unfortunately there is often a challenge for healthcare practitioners in recognising Huntington’s. Many family doctors will never encounter the disease, or come across it just once in their career and, therefore, in cases where there is no known family history, the onse...

Photo: Getty Images By Contributor 7th April 2021 More cross disciplinary integration is required in the training of clinical cancer specilists, writes Prof Niall O’Higgins For over 30 years multidisciplinary meetings have become routine in the planning of care for patients with cancer. This arrangement requires all relevant medical specialists in the diagnostic and therapeutic disciplines to confer (usually and preferably by physical attendance) during a meeting where diagnostic issues, staging processes, and therapeutic interventions concerning each patient are discussed. In recent...