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- AIDS Vaccines May Not Warrant Tests in US Teens (Update1)
Thrust on services will boost margins
Daily News & Analysis – Jun 9, 2008
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Specialist Nurses Can Play A Key Role In Supporting Patients Having…
Science Daily – Science Daily (press release) – Jun 9, 2008
Feedback from the family doctors who took part in the study was also good. They were positive about the timing and content of the information they received from the clinical nurse specialist about their patients’ ongoing treatment. "ur study showed that clinical nurse specialists can play a key role in the management of head and neck cancer patients having radiotherapy and this may take the pressure off busy consultants with no reduction in the quality of care provided" says lead author Dr Mary Wells a Lecturer and Clinical Research Fellow in Cancer Nursing from the University. "As a result of our research the majority of radiotherapy review clinics at Ninewells Hospital are now conducted by a clinical nurse specialist. But greater investment is needed to develop specialist nursing roles if initiatives like this are to be replicated elsewhere in the UK. "Key findings of the study included: Nurses were able to spend 16 minutes on each consultation – four times as long as the consultants – and patients had shorter waits to see them (two minutes versus nine). verall quality of life scores were similar in both groups but patients in the consultant-led clinic group reported slightly higher emotional functioning.
AIDS Vaccines May Not Warrant Tests in US Teens (Update1)
Bloomberg – Jun 9, 2008
Whitehouse Station New Jersey-basedMerck & Co. was forced to halt a study of an AIDS vaccine lastyear after 49 people who received it became infected with thevirus that causes the disease compared with just 33 people in agroup that got placebo inoculations. Researchers had considered adding adolescents to anotherstudy of the Merck vaccine in Africa said Alan Fix a panelmember who is chief of the Vaccine Clinical Research Branch atthe U.
