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How nurse intervention is tackling child obesity

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Diabetes development nurse Janet James visited schools for an hour each term to promote a simple message about high-calorie carbonated drinks and this has prevented a rise in the children's obesity. There was seven per cent increase in overweight and obese children in the control group, which was prevented in the intervention group.

Author: Crouch, David
Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Ltd.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 2004
Canned & Bottled Soft Drinks, Soft Drink Manufacturing, Bottled and canned soft drinks, Care and treatment, Soft drinks, Causes of, Risk factors, Obesity in children, Childhood obesity, Carbonated beverages

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A world first for nursing: the first nurse endosonographer in the world is helping pioneer a new approach to oesophageal cancer

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British clinical nurse Laura Doig is the first nurse to specialize in endosonography. She uses her skills to carefully follow the growth of esophageal tumors undergoing chemoradiotherapeutic treatment.

Author: Crouch, David
Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Ltd.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 2003
Management dynamics, HEALTH SERVICES, Cancer Therapy, Ambulatory Health Care Services, Methods, Innovations, Practice, Cancer treatment, Radiotherapy, Endoscopic ultrasonography, Doig, Laura

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