Highlights from the August 2007 Journal of the American Dietetic Association
...re Costs Adding a lifestyle intervention led by a registered dietitian to the typical care provided to obese pe... comparing lifestyle case management provided by a registered dietitian to the usual care given to obese adults with type 2 diabetes, researchers found the additi...New heart disease risk score will help minimize health inequalities
...he progress of 1.28 million healthy men and women, registered at 318 general practices over a period of 12 years up to April 2007, recording first diagnosis of cardiovascular disease. All the participants were aged between 35 and 74 at the start of the study. They found that the QRISK score was more accurate ...Smokers given more help to quit since GP performance pay introduced
...al College London looked at patients withdiabetes, registered in Wandsworth, South London. They found that thepercentage of smokers with diabetes who were given cessation advice byprimary care staff increased from 48% to 84% between 2003 and 2005. Morepatients with diabetes had their smoking status recorded in ...Herb shows potential to reduce cancer-related fatigue
...ch.mayo.edu/mayo/research/staff/barton_dl.cfm ), a registered nurse, Mayo Clinic cancer researcher ( http://cancercenter.mayo.edu/ ) and the studys primary investigator. Cancer-related fatigue is one of the most profound and distressing issues patients face, she says. This unique type of fatigue can have doz...Urgent need for guidance on mobile phone use in clinical care
... a UK clinician may provide a consultation using a registered patient's mobile phone unaware that the patient is in another country, where their UK medical credentials are not recognised and legal indemnity is invalid....Policy changes have direct effect on nursing home care
..., the average US nursing home had 15 percent fewer registered nurses per resident than nationally recommended, H..., and those with a larger number of beds had fewer registered nurses and total nursing staff per patient. Nursing homes in counties with more elderly residents, m...ICU nurse working conditions linked to increase in patient infections
...ith high nurse staffing levels (the average was 17 registered nurse hours per patient day) had a lower incidence of infections. Higher levels of overtime hours were associated with increased rates of infection and skin ulcers. On average nurses worked overtime 5.6 percent of the time. These findings, reported i...Disadvantaged TB patients urgently need social support to make medical treatment more effective
... 13 per cent had no income. 16 per cent werent registered with a family doctor, 13 per cent were seeking asylum and 16 per cent did not speak English as their first language. More than a third anticipated problems taking their medicine and 30 per cent had no-one to remind them, suggesting a lack of soc...Same-day coronary angiography and surgery safe for many patients
...0 heart valve replacement or repair surgeries were registered with the Society of Thoracic Surgeons National Database in 2005, the researchers point out. Coronary angiography, which is recommended preoperatively for all patients who are considered at risk for coronary artery disease, is frequently done sever...Study reveals aspirin's colorectal cancer prevention mechanism
...th the NHS, which enrolls more than 120,000 female registered nurses, and the HPFS, following more than 50,000 men employed in the health professions, have previously found associations between aspirin intake and reduced colorectal cancer risk. For the current study, the researchers focused on almost 83,000 ...Researchers investigate impact of lifestyle on GI health
...addition to general caloric intake, obese subjects registered a higher appetite level after the soups than the lean controls (protein: 8.75 vs. 5.92; fat: 8.08 vs. 5.17). The percentage of normal stomach electrical rhythmi was similar between the lean and obese subjects (73.9% vs. 68.9%) before fatty soup, and...Online education program better source of information for patients
...failure (HF), high cholesterol or hypertension who registered to use Heart Profilers were invited to answer an I...he Heart Profiler questionnaire (users), those who registered but did not complete it (registrants) and a control sample of non-users with one of the five heart c...Study finds decline in nursing faculty primary barrier to nursing program expansion
...emographic characteristics to the national pool of registered nurses as measured in the last National Nurses Sample Survey. "The nursing shortage will not be remedied without having sufficient nursing faculty in place for both the immediate and long-range future," said James William Bevill, Jr, an author of t...Kennedy Krieger Institute launches first national online autism registry
...research as we know it. Among the families who registered during the IAN pilot phase, 80% had never participated in any autism research. The IAN project will utilize the power and reach of the Internet, which is widely available regardless of income, education, race and ethnicity, to significantly increase...Plant-derived omega-3s may aid in bone health
...sate; Kirsten Hilper, previous doctoral recipient, registered dietitian, Sodoexho USA; Guixiang Zhao, previous doctoral recipient, senior service fellow, Centers for Disease Control; and Sheila G. West, associate professor of biobehavioral health at Penn State. The California Walnut Commission supported this ...Risk for stroke, death not higher for sickle cell children with early complications
...ter for Pediatric Oncology; and Elizabeth Shull, a registered nurse who collected the data. ...Health providers could save billions without compromising health care says drug study
...nnual 1.3 million drugs budget for more than 9,000 registered patients. The savings were calculated by factoring in staff time and administration as well as drug costs. The January issue of IJCP also includes two editorials on the paper. "No healthcare system can afford to countenance the haemorrhaging o...Men with no sons more at risk for prostate cancer, according to Mailman School of PH Study
...state cancer by the sex of offspring among fathers registered in a family-based research cohort in Israel. From this cohort of 38,934 men, followed from the birth of their offspring (in 1964 through 1976) until 2005, the authors conclude that genes on the Y chromosome may be involved in prostate cancer risk in ...Inherited ischaemic stroke more common in women than men
...acks and strokes in a population of 91 106 people registered with 63 family physicians in Oxfordshire, UK. In addition to known differences between men and women with stroke and transient ischaemic attack, Touz and Rothwell showed that women are more likely than men to have a history of stroke in mothers tha......at the first session and botox at the second, also registered an improvement in symptoms. After a year, half of the trial participants were still receiving botox injections, and were finding them helpful. Side effects included mild and temporary muscle weakness and pain at the injection site. Symptom relief...