Search Results for 'infection'

For many people, radiation therapy is a powerful, life-saving treatment for cancer. However, it can leave lasting changes in the healthy tissue surrounding the treated area.

While every person is unique, one thing most of us have in common is that we rely on our feet every day to get us from A to B. Looking after them is therefore essential to our mobility, comfort and overall wellbeing.

When a skin graft or a skin flap struggles to take, it is usually because the tissue is not receiving enough oxygen to heal. This is a recognised situation where hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) can help, used alongside, never instead of, standard medical care.

Rare Disease Day shines a light on conditions that are often overlooked or misunderstood. While non-healing wounds aren’t rare in the strict medical sense, they can be underestimated.

For many people, radiation therapy is a powerful, life-saving treatment for cancer. However, it can leave lasting changes in the healthy tissue surrounding the treated area.

When exploring a new treatment, it is reasonable to want to understand it first. On World Patient Safety Day, it is worth setting out clearly how hyperbaric oxygen therapy works.

When a skin graft or a skin flap struggles to take, it is usually because the tissue is not receiving enough oxygen to heal. This is a recognised situation where hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) can help, used alongside, not instead of, standard medical care.

Living with a diabetic foot ulcer that is not healing can be exhausting, painful, and stressful.

As summer arrives, so too does barbecue season and more time spent working and socialising outside. While these moments are part of everyday life across Ireland, especially in farming and agricultural communities, they also bring a higher risk of sunburn and burns from hot surfaces, flames, machinery or chemical exposure.

Patients suffering from painful ingrown toenails now have access to a groundbreaking new treatment, as Foot Health Podiatry in Claregalway becomes the first clinic in the Republic of Ireland to introduce advanced laser treatment for this common and often debilitating condition.