Impact of a diabetes-designed meal delivery service on changes in hemoglobin A and quality of life in patients with diabetes.

Background: Over 34 million Americans have diabetes, and nutrition therapy is essential in self-management.

Aims: The primary aim of the study was to evaluate the impact of meals designed for patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) through a meal delivery program. The primary outcome was a 3-month change in hemoglobin A (HbA).

The effects of probiotics on mood and emotion.

Preliminary research in humans and rodents demonstrates that various probiotic formulations of Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium have a clinical and neurochemical anxiolytic effect on the central nervous system (CNS). Further research is warranted to more extensively examine the theorized connection between the gastrointestinal tract and the CNS; however, initial evidence suggests probiotics affect various mechanisms of the gut-brain connection that modulate anxiety-like behaviors. This article describes the wider-reaching effects of probiotics, specifically related to behavior and brain function.

A Novel Patient Recruitment Strategy: Patient Selection Directly from the Community through Linkage to Clinical Data.

Objective: This article presents and describes our methods in developing a novel strategy for recruitment of underrepresented, community-based participants, for pragmatic research studies leveraging routinely collected electronic health record (EHR) data.

Methods: We designed a new approach for recruiting eligible patients from the community, while also leveraging affiliated health systems to extract clinical data for community participants. The strategy involves methods for data collection, linkage, and tracking.

Molecular diagnostics, personalized medicine, and the evolving role of the cytotechnologist: an institutional experience.

The role of cytotechnologists has focused primarily on the microscopic examination of cytologic specimens for diagnosing disease. Cytotechnologists currently evaluate a wide assortment of both gynecological and nongynecological cytology specimens. However, the Pap test remains the primary test for most cytology laboratories.

Teaching abuse-protection skills to people with intellectual, disabilities: a review of the literature.

Lumley and Miltenberger (1997) noted the paucity of empirical investigations involving teaching sexual-abuse-protection skills to people with intellectual disabilities. We reviewed relevant empirical investigations since 1997. Six studies trained sexual-abuse-protection skills, and two also included protection skills related to physical and verbal abuse.