Aoife Connors speaks to Dr Mike Stroud on the importance of treating malnutrition properly and how nutrition should remain a priority, despite economic cutbacks Proper treatment of malnutrition reduces costs from hospital stays, GP consultations and long-term care needs of vulnerable groups such as the elderly – and during these recessionary times, nutritional budgets ‘should [...]

New evidence presented at the European Congress of Endocrinology in Prague last month has shown that vitamin D deficiency is closely associated with the chronic fatigue that often follows post-traumatic brain injury (TBI). In the European Union, the annual incidence of TBI hospitalisations and fatalities is estimated at 235 per 100,000 people. Around two-thirds of [...]

Clinical Update: Nutrition – Crohn’s disease is an incurable chronic disease that generally affects the small intestine where the absorption of vitamins and nutrients occurs. Patients with Crohn’s disease frequently have surgery that may involve the removal of the lower part of the small intestine, which is where vitamin D tends to be maximally absorbed. [...]

Clinical Update: Nutrition – The Annals of Surgery recently published a report on research involving patients undergoing surgery for oesophageal cancer, a procedure normally associated with significant weight-loss and quality-of-life issues . The lead investigators of the study were Prof John V. Reynolds, Professor of Surgery at Trinity College Dublin and Dr Aoife Ryan, Assistant [...]

Clinical Update: Nutrition – There is no disputing that if a person has inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), there are circumstances where the patient will need nutritional support because they are malnourished. However, basic science work and many animal studies have been done and it appears that there could also be a genetic element. Trinity College [...]

Alcohol is an increasingly important factor in the rising toll of fatal car crashes involving young women drivers, according to new research from the United States. In 2007 alone, alcohol-related fatal car crashes accounted for almost a third of the total in the US. Against that background, researchers analysed data from the National Highway Traffic [...]