Teaching Medical Students to Help Patients Manage Their Weight: Outcomes of an Eight-School Randomized Controlled Trial
BACKGROUNDGiven the rising rates of obesity there is a pressing need for medical schools to better prepare students for intervening with patients who have overweight or obesity and for prevention efforts.OBJECTIVETo assess the effect of a multi-modal weight management curriculum on counseling skills for health behavior change.DESIGNA pair-matched, ...
By Judith K. Ockene, Lori Pbert, Sybil Crawford, Christine F. Frisard, Jyothi A. Pendharkar, Rajani S. Sadasivam, Jamie Faro, Cathy Okuliar, Cassie Eno, Katherine Margo, Monica Ann Shaw, Taraneh Soleymani, Diane D. Stadler, Sarita Warrier, Katie White, Alan C. Geller
Effectiveness of acupuncture for headache in post-stroke patients
Abstract Introduction Vascular and cerebrovascular diseases remain an actual problem of modern society. More than 70% of post-stroke patients suffered from different pains. Although a headache is the common complaint of post-stroke patients it is not described good in specialized literature and its pathophysiology h...
By Olga Kovalenko, Maryna Chizhukova