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From the National Health Service (NHS), UK

Dear all ,

Each month there is a wide range of new items added to the NHS Evidence specialist collection on supportive and palliative care.  From last month’s list of entries, Dr Jason Boland has selected those which may be of particular interest (see below).  Jason is a clinical lecturer at the University of Sheffield, where he is currently undertaking a PhD. 
He can be contacted via: [email protected]

 Users who cannot easily access the web links below from their email software should access the full list via the link near the top of the home page: http://www.library.nhs.uk/palliative/  
or See the full lists of new records added each month

Best wishes,

Richard Stevens, Project Manager, NHS Evidence - supportive and palliative care

NHS Evidence - supportive and palliative care

July 2010 Bulletin

  ·See all new items added in June

  Guidelines

NICE:

• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in adults in primary and secondary care (partial update). NICE Clinical Guideline 101. Published 21 June 2010

Dept of Health:

• Manual for Cancer Services 2008: head and neck measures. Published 24 June 2010

British Pain Society:

• Cancer pain management. Published January 2010

• Opioids for persistent pain: good practice. Published March 2004, updated January 2010

Dept of Health:

• Help is at hand: a resource for people bereaved by suicide and other sudden, traumatic death. Published 28 April 2010, updates previous guidance of September 2008

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

• Exercise interventions for upper-limb dysfunction due to breast cancer treatment
• Whole brain radiation therapy (WBRT) alone versus WBRT and radiosurgery for the treatment of brain metastases

UK Database of Uncertainties about the Effects of Treatments (DUETs)

• Chinese herbal medicines for induction of remission in advanced or late gastric cancer
• Anticholinergics for urinary symptoms in multiple sclerosis
• A systematic review to investigate the effectiveness and acceptability of interventions for moist desquamation in radiotherapy patients
• Effectiveness of topical administration of opioids in palliative care

·          All new items added in June

Some of the items added to the 'Evidence in the News' RSS feed last month

• MS sufferers welcome first licensed cannabis-based drug
• Acupuncture pain molecule pinpointed

Dr Richard Stevens, Project Manager
NHS Evidence - supportive and palliative care,
University of Sheffield, Academic Unit of Supportive Care,
Sykes House, Little Common Lane, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S11 9NE, UK
Telephone: 0114 262 0174 Email: [email protected]
www.shef.ac.uk/medicine/staff/rstevens.html
www.library.nhs.uk/palliative/
www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/supportive-and-palliative-care-evidence.html

3rd Annual Hospice and Palliative Care in the Global Community - September (22) 23-25, 2010

The conference brochure and registration form are now available.  This event is being held at the UCSF Fresno, California U.S.A., auditorium, and is being sponsored by Hinds Hospice and Community Medical Centers.  Up to up to 24.5 CME, CEU, and CE credits are available for this conference and pre-conference. 

We invite you to visit www.hindshospice.org for registration and special hotel accommodation rates.  If you have any questions please do not hesitate to call.