Randomized controlled trial: effect of nutritional counselling in general practice.

Objectives: To investigate the effectiveness of a non-structured 15-min educational intervention by general practitioners (GPs) on modifications of daily diet among healthy adults.

Design: Two arms randomized trial lasting 12 months.

Setting: Italian general practitioner wards.

Hospital-acquired infections in Italy: a region wide prevalence study.

Between October and December 2000, a region-wide prevalence study of hospital-acquired infections (HAI) was conducted in all public hospitals (59 facilities with ca. 16000 beds; 560000 admission yearly) in Piemonte Region, Italy, and in the one hospital of the neighbouring autonomous region of Valle d'Aosta. The study population comprised a total of 9467 patients hospitalized for at least 24 h.

Lymphoid nodules and nodular lymphoid hyperplasia in bone marrow biopsies.

Out of 2,474 bone marrow biopsies we have observed 330 cases (13.3%) with presence of lymphoid nodules (LN). LN were frequent in old age (24.