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Crospon, the Galway-based medical device developer, has got clearance from the US Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) to market a new imaging catheter for the measurement of sleeves created during bariatric [weight loss] surgery.

The award winning documentary makers Geoffrey Smith and Anders Østergaard will both be in Galway next week for a two-day seminar.

Despite political and public opinion believing that the €7 million share of cuts to be foisted on Portiuncula hospital by the end of the year would “effectively close” the hospital, “the HSE can categorically state that there are no plans to close Portiuncula Hospital”.

A union boss has issued a stern warning to local politicians - “Use your seat to protect services at Portiuncula Hospital or lose it”.

Kilkenny’s hurling world came to a standstill on Tuesday when the news broke that Henry Shefflin was out of this year’s All-Ireland hurling final. The 31-year-old severed a cruciate ligament during Kilkenny’s semi-final victory over Cork on Sunday.

Connacht’s talismanic captain John Muldoon will be out of action for four months after his tour of New Zealand with Ireland came to a heartbreaking end.

A pioneering Mayo-based surgeon — who was the first specialist in the world outside the United States to undertake a revolutionary new hip replacement — offered hundreds of colleagues a live insight into the technique. A live satellite link took place on Wednesday (May 26) between the orthopaedic unit at Mayo General Hospital and one of the world’s premier international joint replacement conferences in Rome. The broadcast allowed orthopaedic expert Mr Derek Bennett to demonstrate the technique and components which make the breakthrough operation so successful.

A local patients’ advocate has warned that the hepatitis C scare - which has resulted in more than 450 former public hospital patients being offered screening after it emerged they may have been treated by a surgeon infected by the virus - may further rock public confidence in an “already shaky” HSE led health service.

The timing of ward rounds at Galway University Hospitals are to be changed to ensure the earlier discharge of patients who have been treated and are waiting to go home or move to another health service.

Zig Zigler once said that in business and life “it’s better to be a meaningful specific rather than a wandering generality”.