Nutrition counseling and monitoring via tele-nutrition for healthy diet for people with spinal cord injury: A case series analyses.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of a tele-nutrition counseling program on diet quality, weight, waist circumference, and quality of life in people with spinal cord injury (SCI).

Design: Prospective observational study.

Participants: Fifteen participants with SCI were enrolled from an acute inpatient rehabilitation unit and outpatient SCI clinic; ten participants completed the intervention.

Live-case demonstrations: putting patients first.

Live-case demonstrations have become essential teaching tools. Debate about their added educational value and risk-benefit considerations vis-à-vis patient safety demand that major interventional cardiology meetings offering live-case demonstrations carefully define and monitor the objectives and quality of the cases included at their meetings. To this end, Europa Organisation, the content-providing group that supports EuroPCR and other PCR conferences internationally, has convened the PCR VITAL-Live Workshop, bringing together senior interventional cardiologists and experienced live-case operators with the aim of defining and reviewing the key components and goals of valuable live-case demonstrations.

[Cardiology online: impact and pitfalls of Internet medical news].

Twenty years ago, the main sources for physicians seeking information on new procedures, drugs, or devices were meetings and medical journals. The dawn of the Internet radically transformed how news and information is delivered and absorbed, beginning with the launch of online journals back in the mid-1990s. A decade and a half later, physicians can learn about new innovations the moment they are made public, and they can get that news from their phones and tablets, their Twitter or Facebook accounts, or via their favorite blog or medical news web site.