Medically assisted nutrition for palliative care in adult patients.

Background: Many palliative care patients have a reduced oral intake during their illness. The management of this can include the provision of medically assisted nutrition with the aim of prolonging the length of life of a patient, improving their quality of life, or both.

Objectives: To determine the effect of medically assisted nutrition on the quality and length of life of palliative care patients.

Survey of bereavement support provided by Australian palliative care services.

Objective: To determine the prevalence, staffing, methods, timing and allocation of bereavement programs in Australian palliative care services.

Design: Questionnaire-based postal survey.

Setting And Participants: The questionnaire was mailed in January 2007 to all 324 palliative care centres identified from the Australian Palliative care national directory 2004.

Comparison of lower- vs. upper-body cooling during arm exercise in hot conditions.

Introduction: Studies examining cooling strategies and exercise have generally employed lower-body exercise despite the fact that arm exercise is an important mode for many industrial tasks and disabled populations. The aim of this study was to determine the effects of two cooling strategies during arm exercise in the heat.

Methods: There were eight male subjects (mean +/- SD age 24.