Medication adherence and activity patterns underlying uncontrolled hypertension: Assessment and recommendations by practicing pharmacists using digital health care.

Objectives: This report summarizes the first use of a digital health feedback system (DHFS) by practicing pharmacists to establish evidence-based blood pressure (BP) management recommendations.

Setting: Fifteen commercial pharmacies and 39 patients in the Isle of Wight participated.

Practice Description: The pharmacists were experienced in providing New Medicine Services to patients in their communities.

Achieving all-age helmet use compliance for snow sports: strategic use of education, legislation and enforcement.

Background: Nova Scotia is the first jurisdiction in the world to mandate ski and snowboard helmet use for all ages at ski hills in the province. This study represents a longitudinal examination of the effects of social marketing, educational campaigns and the introduction of helmet legislation on all-age snow sport helmet use in Nova Scotia.

Methods: A baseline observational study was conducted to establish the threshold of ski and snowboarding helmet use.

Knowledge and practice of childhood motor vehicle restraint use in Nova Scotia: phase II.

Objective: To examine changes to knowledge and practice of childhood motor vehicle restraint (CMVR) use in Nova Scotia after the implementation of stricter car seat and new booster seat (BS) legislation in 2007.

Methods: A random telephone survey of households (at least one child <12 years) was performed in 2004 and 2010. Logistic regression determined variables independently associated with correct knowledge and/or practice of CMVR use.

Helmets for skiing and snowboarding: who is using them and why.

Background: In Canada, winter sports injuries are responsible for significant health care burden, with estimates of $400 million in direct and indirect annual health care costs. For ski-related injuries, helmets have been shown to provide significant protection. Current common practice in Canada, including the Province of Nova Scotia, is to leave the decision of whether to wear a helmet to the individual.

Friederich Nietzsche and the seduction of Occam's razor.

Friedrich Nietzsche developed dementia at the age of 44 years. It is generally assumed that the cause of his dementia was neurosyphilis or general pareisis of the insane (GPI). Others have proposed frontal-based meningioma as the underlying cause.