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- Treatment advances lead to decline in childhood cancer deaths
A CDC report shows that deaths from childhood cancers such as leukemia dropped 20% from 1990 to 2004, due in part to improvements in drug and bone marrow transplant treatments. The report's authors note regional and racial discrepancies in the numbers, including a lower rate of improvement for Hispanic Americans. Yahoo!/Reuters
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- Vitamin D deficiency common in epileptics
A new study shows that nearly 50% of epilepsy patients lack adequate levels of vitamin D due to antiepileptic medications, which can lower vitamin D, and lifestyle restrictions that may limit exposure to the sun and physical activity. Low vitamin D levels were particularly prevalent among men in the study, leading researchers to suggest that this group needs particular attention. Medscape (free registration)
(12/6)
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- Transfer sheets aim to reduce staff injuries when moving patients
Nurses at Cooper University Hospital say that using orange MaxiSlide sheets to transfer patients from table to bed and vice versa has helped relieve the strain they had previously felt in their backs and shoulders when moving patients. The hospitals' decision to implement the devices came from the two-year-old Safe Patient Handling Task Force, in which medical staff test equipment to ensure better worker satisfaction and higher patient quality standards. Courier-Post (Camden-Cherry Hill, N.J.)
(12/6)
- Automated reminders encourage walking as exercise
A study from Stanford University has shown that calls from a computerized system that encourage walking are motivation enough to get sedentary people moving. Participants in the Community Health Advice by Telephone program who received calls from a computer logged an average of 157 minutes of exercise per week and human calls prompted about 171 minutes per week, while those who received no calls averaged 118 minutes per week. Yahoo!/Associated Press
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- $10 million grant aims to ease RN crunch
A $10 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation will fund the creation of the Center To Champion Nursing in America, which aims to boost faculty levels at nursing schools and lobby for state and federal RN program funding to alleviate the nursing shortage. NJ.com
(12/6)
- Lack of access may keep RNs from flu shots
RN Pam Meredith found getting a flu shot to be very challenging, leading her to wonder whether a lack of easy access to the vaccination may be part of the reason that only 36% of health care workers got flu shots last year, according to CDC statistics. Meredith calls for initiatives to make getting the shots more convenient and affordable, such as one facility's use of a mobile cart to deliver vaccines to employees. Nurse.com (Gannett Healthcare Group)
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