Results of a specialised diabetes retinopathy screening initiative in Cork have been published, showing that community-based screening programmes for diabetes can reduce both hospital visits and the serious complications associated with the disease. The results also suggest that many patients with sight-threatening retinopathy are not receiving any treatment.

A new vaccine that will treat cancer at the pre-clinical level has been developed by Irish researchers.

For the first time scientists have created stem cell-derived, in vitro models of sporadic and hereditary Alzheimer’s disease (AD), using induced pluripotent stem cells from patients with the neurodegenerative disorder.

Schizophrenia and other psychoses affect three-in-100 people in Ireland with huge economic cost to the State, according to a new report published on the work and evaluation of the DETECT (Dublin and East Treatment and Early Care Team) service.