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Galway-based MedTech innovator Tympany Medical has developed Solascope, a smart surgical endoscope platform targeting the 20 million procedures per annum requiring endoscopic visualisation.

When Fergus Farrell woke up after having surgery in Dublin’s Mater Hospital in late October 2018, he could not move his feet. He could not feel them, either. In fact, it seemed as if they did not belong to him. It was like someone’s else’s feet had been put into his bed and his own had gone missing, he says.

In Claregalway’s Corporate Park, a quiet but powerful medtech transformation is underway. Salt Medical, a rising Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisation (CDMO), has just completed an eventful and highly productive first year, one that has seen the company go from an empty shell of a building to a fully operational medical device innovation hub.

Running from next Wednesday, September 25, to Saturday, September 28, the story revolves around Molly (Genevieve Hulme Beaman) who has lived in happy, capable, and independent darkness since she was ten months old. Her restless and unemployed husband, Frank (Manus Halligan), becomes obsessed with restoring her sight.

As you read this piece this August day,there is someone in this city or county who is awaiting the results of a breast cancer check; someone for whom the watched phone represents both a terror and a salvation. Awaiting that news is the norm for so many every week and every day for so many families. As any family who has been touched by breast cancer will know, the waiting, the diagnosis, the fear are all part of the process. There is the fear of the known and the unknown; the potential that plans carefully honed will have to be shelved. Or not.

He had begun to experience chest pains but still only missed the cut by four shots, Colm Hughes’ open heart surgery would coincide with the final of the South of Ireland just three days later.

Tir na nOg Clinic is a family run clinic specialising in hair transplant surgery, led by Dr Kevin McDonald. A dedicated surgeon from Baldoyle, Dublin, Dr Kevin completed his medical education at the University of Galway in 1999, initially specialising in cardiothoracic surgery.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness. And so it was with busy councillor Alan Cheevers three years ago. When it was revealed that he had been diagnosed with bowel cancer, he feared the worst. In the same period of time, he had lost two uncles to the killer disease...and on the day he was told himself, he feared having to break the news to his father that the illness had once again visited the family.

Welcome to Tir na nOg Clinic, a family-run establishment specialising in hair transplant surgery. At the forefront of the clinic is Dr Kevin McDonald, a highly skilled and dedicated surgeon with an unwavering commitment to his craft. Hailing from Baldoyle in Dublin, Dr Kevin pursued his medical education at the University of Galway (then UCG), where he completed his studies in 1999. His expertise lies in cardiothoracic surgery, the field he specialised in after graduating.

If you read my story back in August, you would know that I have been waiting 10 years (yes since early 2013) for a hip replacement and I am happy to let you all amazing readers know that I have finally gotten my surgery date.