After the Supreme Court Ruling on the right-to-die case in 1995, the Irish Medical Council was deeply unhappy. The court had ruled that keeping someone alive via gastrostomy tube feeding amounted to medical treatment, not just to care. As such, then, it could be lawfully discontinued. A member of the Medical Council, Dr John Monaghan, speaking on his own behalf, said afterwards in an interview, published the next day, that any doctor who cooperated with this Supreme ruling ma

Over 50% of men aged 65 to 74 are taking statins daily. This is according to a Google search. The report does not say how many women are taking statins every day, but I can tell you, as a retired doctor, that it would not be much fewer. Lipid-lowering drugs are the most prescribed medicines across the so-called "developed world." Millions, if not indeed billions, consume them daily. This is at an enormous expense to the global economy and to individuals. Lipid-lowering drugs