High-velocity power training has similar effects to traditional resistance training for functional performance in older adults: a systematic review.

Questions: What is the effect of high-velocity power training (HVPT) compared with traditional resistance training (TRT) on functional performance in older adults? What is the quality of intervention reporting for the relevant literature?

Design: Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.

Participants: Older adults (aged > 60 years), regardless of health status, baseline functional capacity or residential status.

Interventions: High-velocity power training with the intent to perform the concentric phase as quickly as possible compared with traditional moderate-velocity resistance training performed with a concentric phase of ≥ 2 seconds.

Exercise counseling to enhance smoking cessation outcomes: the Fit2Quit randomized controlled trial.

Background: Regular exercise has been proposed as a potential smoking cessation aid.

Purpose: This study aimed to determine the effects of an exercise counseling program on cigarette smoking abstinence at 24 weeks.

Methods: A parallel, two-arm, randomized controlled trial was conducted.

Patterns of physical activity and sedentary behavior after bariatric surgery: an observational study.

Background: Engaging in low levels of physical activity (PA) and accumulating prolonged periods of sedentary behavior (SB) during daily life have been associated with deleterious health outcomes. The objective of this study was to undertake an analysis of the way in which PA and SB were accumulated after bariatric surgery.

Methods: Adults 12 to 18 months after laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding or 6 to 18 months after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy wore 2 activity monitors during the waking hours for 7 days.

Evaluation of the Swedish adjustable gastric band VC (SAGB-VC) in an Australian population: early results.

Background: The Swedish adjustable gastric band VC (SAGB-VC) has been in use in Australia since 2007. We evaluated its efficacy and safety.

Methods: We retrospectively analyzed the prospective clinical data of patients who received the implant between November 2007 and June 2009 at 3 Australian bariatric centres.

The INFORM project: a service user-led research endeavor.

Effective engagement with people who experience mental health care services, as research participants and as research leads, is presented. A group of volunteer mental health survivors, called INFORM, worked for 6 years to develop and complete a research project, exploring service user experience of a home treatment and crisis resolution service. Within the article, discussion is given to the significance of service continuity, alongside personal accounts of the impact and consequences of health care staff's interpersonal interactions.

Glycemic control and type 1 diabetes: the differential impact of model of care and income.

Objective: To examine the effect of model of care (specialist care vs. shared care), and income, on glycemic control in a sample of young people with type 1 diabetes.

Methods: A total of 158 children and young people with type 1 diabetes, aged 8-19 yr, and their families, were recruited independent of their source of care as part of a longitudinal, cross-sectional exploratory study.

Experiences of 24-hour advice line services: a framework for good practice and meeting NICE guidelines.

This article presents a framework for the practical implementation of a 24-hour specialist palliative care advice line, illustrated by two case examples from the authors' experience. In the UK, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidance requires provision of 24-hour access to specialist palliative care advice for healthcare professionals and carers regardless of a patient's location. Effective implementation of a telephone advice line for specialist advice is one approach to addressing the current variability in palliative care service provision, both in the UK and elsewhere.

Visions of evidence-based nursing practice.

Sue Taylor and Davina Allen argue that there are two fundamental ideas behind evidence-based nursing practice in the UK and look at the tensions within them.

Meningococcal W135 carriage; enhanced surveillance amongst east London Muslim pilgrims and their household contacts before and after attending the 2002 Hajj.

Background: For two successive years, 2000 and 2001, there was a world-wide outbreak of W135 meningococcal disease amongst pilgrims who attended the Hajj and in their contacts after returning home.

Methods: Beginning January 2002, we offered meningococcal quadrivalent polysaccharide vaccine (against serogroups A, C, Y and W135) to pilgrims and collected a throat swab for meningococcal W135 carriage before and after their pilgrimage.

Results: The overall Neisseria meningitidis carriage pre-Hajj was 8.

"A shine on the nose": sexual metaphors in surrealism.

This essay explores a curious phenomenon in the work of several European surrealist artists, notably Hans Bellmer and René Magritte, from the late 1920s through the 1950s: In images of the body, a penis may appear in place of a nose; breasts, testicles, or buttocks stand in for the eyes of a face, a vaginal opening for the nostrils, an anus for the mouth. Alternatively, disembodied arms and legs or an elongated neck take on a phallic character, or the entire body becomes an erect penis. Aside from the shock value of these disconcerting substitutions, for which the Surrealists surely strove, what are we to make of them? Psychoanalytic accounts of fetishism point to castration anxiety as one explanatory factor in the creation of such metaphors-Freud's paradigmatic fetishist cathected a "shine on the nose" in place of the missing phallus, as described in the analyst's now-classic essay of 1927.

Is overweight and obesity in 9-10-year-old children in Liverpool related to deprivation and/or electoral ward when based on school attended?

Objectives: To determine whether weight problems in children (overweight, obesity and overweight or obesity) were related to deprivation indices when attributed only according to electoral ward of the school attended. To determine whether children with weight problems were more likely to be found in some wards rather than others, and to compare the distribution for boys and girls.

Design: Retrospective, cross-sectional, observational study.

Long and short-term outcomes in patients requiring continuous renal replacement therapy post cardiopulmonary bypass.

Objective: The development of acute renal failure following cardiac surgery is a rare but devastating complication with high morbidity and mortality. This study aimed to assess the incidence of acute renal failure necessitating continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) in patients who required cardiopulmonary bypass, to determine the factors associated with mortality and to evaluate long-term outcome.

Methods: Patients who underwent cardiac surgery between October 1997 and 2003 and treated with CRRT were included (n=98).

Piloting cross-boundary training to develop cancer care nursing.

Flexible approaches to lifelong learning have the potential to increase motivation and influence recruitment and retention. This paper explores how the introduction of a collaborative rotational placement programme between the NHS and the voluntary sector helped qualified staff to develop their practice in caring for patients with cancer from diagnosis through to bereavement. Staff experienced an increase in their personal motivation, confidence and enthusiasm.