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Civil Engineering students in Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology are to benefit from the purchase of new hi-tech land surveying equipment and a new Global Positioning System (GPS) station, purchased by the GMIT Department of Building and Civil Engineering.

Civil Engineering students in Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology are to benefit from the purchase of new hi-tech land surveying equipment and a new Global Positioning System (GPS) station, purchased by the GMIT Department of Building and Civil Engineering.

The Mayor of Castlebar Councillor Ger Deere has received complaints that local GPs are finding it very difficult to order batches of the seasonal flu vaccines.

The chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum is calling for the health authority to re-open free swine flu vaccination clinics for the general population amid fears that the numbers contracting the virus will continue to rise.

Westdoc, the out-of-hours GP service, has come to the rescue of HSE public health nurses and home help workers in Galway and Roscommon during the Big Freeze.

The decision by clerical staff in the Regional and Merlin Park Hospitals to avail of the redundancy package offered by the HSE West will leave consultants and doctors without essential secretarial and clerical staff

A new €800,000 podiatry clinic - the only one of its kind in Ireland - which opened recently on the grounds of Merlin Park University Hospital will provide specialised services to people throughout the country.

Medical advice columnists in newspapers and magazines are inundated with queries. People too scared or embarrassed to approach their doctor about some worrying medical problem find it easier to put pen to paper and confide in a total stranger.

Athlone’s position as the greatest urban centre in the nation with a heroin problem outside Dublin was confirmed this week with the news that there are 68 people on methadone treatment in the town, according to a reply given to a county councillor at the most recent HSE Mid-Leinster forum on September 21. Across the rest of the county, there are just 49 receiving such treatment from community GPs.

The smartphone revolution continues to gather momentum and Slickflix in the Newpark Shopping Centre in Kilkenny is leading the charge with a wide range of Android phones in stock.