24 inspiring women (you might not know of) who are changing the world

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To mark International Women’s Day, we’re shining a light on 24 inspiring women who may have escaped your radar. From food to foreign policy, and from electronics to economics, they’re all changing the world by working on solutions

1. Clare Courtney and Karolina Koścień of Heart & Parcel

Manchester-based Heart & Parcel brings women together to cook and pick up English language skills in the process. With the support of more than 70 volunteers, the women prepare dishes that are then sold (in non-Covid times) at markets and supper clubs. Heart & Parcel was founded by Clare Courtney and Karolina Koścień: friends with a love of food and the connections and relationships that surround it. 

The team has adapted during lockdown, including to set up a YouTube channel full of English language resources and recipe videos from its recently published cookbook. It is also holding an online festival to mark International Women’s Day.

Read more at Positive.News

Immunity from Covid-19 lasts up to six months after infection – Hiqa

Immunity after Covid-19 infection can last up to six months, the State’s health watchdog has advised.

This is twice the 12-week period that currently applies as guidance in Ireland.

Post-infection guidance for close contacts should be extended to six months in line with the new evidence, according to the Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa).

Hiqa’s recommendation will be considered by the National Public Health Emergency Team (Nphet), which had asked it to review the international evidence and expert opinion on the issue.

The studies Hiqa examined were conducted prior to last December. Since then, new variants of Sars-CoV-2 have been found and the vaccine rollout has begun.

Read More on the Irish Times Website

Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland: COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Information and Guidance

We are currently balancing the needs of the emergency with our ongoing need to protect the public by upholding nursing and midwifery standards in Ireland. We have created this section to provide information on common questions that have been put to us as the regulator of nurses and midwives in the context of COVID-19.

See Guidance from NMBI 

Vitamin D: Can the sunshine vitamin help to put Covid in the shade?

 

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What would you do if you realised there was a cheap and widely available vitamin that might have the potential to protect us against becoming seriously ill with Covid-19 and help us to fight the virus?

This is a question that Dr Daniel McCartney, a lecturer in human nutrition and dietetics at the Technological University of Dublin, asked himself last year. His answer was to form the Covit-D Consortium with eight fellow medical professionals and academics from different specialist disciplines including respiratory medicine, immunology, geriatric medicine, endocrinology, biochemistry, molecular medicine, public health and nutrition and dietetics.

This group is now calling on the government to recommend a daily dose of 20 to 25 micrograms (mgs) of vitamin D for every Irish adult as a preventative treatment for Covid-19. They also want the government to provide vitamin D supplementation to vulnerable groups such as frontline healthcare workers, those with pre-existing conditions like diabetes and high blood pressure and older adults, especially those living in nursing homes.

Read more at the Irish Examiner

2 new electronic books now available through AIT library to support the Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders : DSM-5

 

Dear all

Please find below details and links (using your AIT single sign on credentials) for two new electronic books now available through AIT library to support the Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders : DSM-5. These books are also available through a catalogue search

 

 

DSM-5® Guidebook : The Essential Companion to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition
The Mental Health Diagnostic Desk Reference: Visual Guides and More for Learning to Use the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV-TR),

 

 

 

Please note: we have also acquired a second (short loan) print copy of Diagnosticand statistical manual of mental disorders : DSM-5.