Determining Mild, Moderate, And Severe Pain Equivalency Across Pain-intensity Tools In Nursing Home Residents (Medical News Today)
More than 80% of nursing home residents have chronic pain, and of these, many are not gettingadequate treatment. Good pain treatment begins with knowing how severe the pain is. Several differentpain-intensity tools are available: one uses a number (0-10) scale, another uses words, and a third showspictures of people in pain. [click link for full article]...more...J. of the Am. Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry-July 2007 (Newswise)
Table of contents for the July 2007 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry....more... A NEW IMAGE OF HEALTH (The Telegraph)
On July 18, 1862, Kadambini (photograph) was born to the wife of Braja Kishore Basu, headmaster of a school in Bhagalpur in Bihar. The family was a part of the migratory chain from East Bengal (present-day Bangladesh). The migrants came to Calcutta and the towns near it to seek their fortunes....more... Nursing2007 Named "Publication Of The Year" By American Society Of Healthcare Publication Editors (Medical News Today)
Nursing2007 (www.lww.com/product/?0360-4039) was named "Publication of the Year" in the Magazine Division by the American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors (ASPHE) when the 2007 awards were announced this month. Nursing2007 is a peer-reviewed professional journal published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, part of Wolters Kluwer Health. [click link for full article]...more... Flash-heating breast milk infected with HIV successfully deactivates virus (News-Medical-Net)
A simple method of flash-heating breast milk infected with HIV successfully inactivated the free-floating virus, according to a new study led by researchers at the Berkeley and Davis campuses of the University of California....more... Back to basics - skin and wounds (Journal of Community Nursing)
The British Association of Dermatologists estimates that between 10 and 15 per cent of general practitioner consultations are dermatologically related (BAD, 2007), however, this is an underestimate as 75 per cent of people with skin conditions are never seen by a doctor (BAD, 1992). This figure, combined with an estimated prevalence of leg ulcers in Europe of 1.8 per cent (Graham, et al., 2003) ......more... Healthy body weight throughout life prevents onset of physical disability later in life (News-Medical-Net)
Maintaining a healthy body weight throughout adulthood may help prevent or delay the onset of physical disability as we age, according to researchers from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and colleagues....more... Nursing2007 Named "Publication of the Year" by American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors (PRWeb)
Nursing2007 was named "Publication of the Year" in the Magazine Division by the American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors (ASPHE) when the 2007 awards were announced this month. Journal's seven ASHPE accolades are most ever awarded to a nursing publication. Nursing2007 is a peer-reviewed professional journal published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, part of Wolters Kluwer Health. ......more... Psychosomatic Medicine - May 2007 Table of Contents (Newswise)
Table of contents for the May 2007 issue of Psychosomatic Medicine....more... |