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Dear all,

Please see below the latest update from NHS Evidence - neurological conditions. If you are unable to view this correctly or would prefer to view it online, please follow this link: http://tinyurl.com/d65zfe

 

Welcome to the neurological conditions specialist collection update for August 2009

 

This bulletin aims to update you on:

 

• Interesting items recently added to the library
• The latest journal articles as highlighted by our Clinical Lead and Topic Advisors 
• Upcoming events of interest
• What the project team are currently doing

 

 

 

RSS news feed for NHS Evidence - neurological conditions

 

Don't forget that NHS Evidence - neurological conditions currently makes three feeds available - Events, News, and Latest Updates to the site. To subscribe to any of these, just click on the orange buttons on the home page, and follow the instructions on your chosen RSS reader. For more information on RSS feeds and news readers, please see http://www.library.nhs.uk/rss/Directory/MoreAboutRss.aspx.

 

 

National Library of Guidelines - users’ help needed

 

As the former National Library for Health continues the transition into NHS Evidence, a number of reviews of the former NLH services are being undertaken to see how they will best work within NHS Evidence. The National Library of Guidelines (NLG, www.library.nhs.uk/guidelinesfinder) is being reviewed separately from the other specialist collections. As part of the review your help with a user survey would be greatly valued. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey at http://tinyurl.com/lg6mzz. It will be available until 7^th August.

 

Recent additions

Below is a selection from several recent additions to the website:

 

Guidelines

 

• Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS)

Epilepsy

Parkinson's disease

 

• Department of Health

Living well with dementia: the National Dementia Strategy - implementation plan

vCJD risk assessment calculations for a patient with multiple routes of exposure

 

Cochrane systematic reviews

 

• Acanthopanax for acute ischaemic stroke
• Interventions for post-stroke fatigue
• Oral versus intravenous steroids for treatment of relapses in multiple sclerosis
• Overground physical therapy gait training for chronic stroke patients with mobility deficits
• Pregabalin for acute and chronic pain in adults
• Therapeutic interventions for disease progression in Huntington's disease
• Therapeutic interventions for symptomatic treatment in Huntington's disease
• Topical rubefacients for acute and chronic pain in adults
• Traditional Chinese medicine for epilepsy
• Treatment for idiopathic and hereditary neuralgic amyotrophy (brachial neuritis)
• Treatment of seizures in multiple sclerosis

 

Behind the Headlines

 

• Coffee aids Alzheimer's mice
• Marital status and dementia risk

 

Critically appraised topics

 

• Acupuncture reduced frequency and pain intensity of primary migraine or tension-type headaches
• Aspirin plus extended-release dipyridamole and clopidogrel were similarly effective for preventing recurrent stroke
• Ginkgo biloba did not prevent dementia or Alzheimer disease in elderly people
• High-dose vitamin B supplements did not slow cognitive decline in patients with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer disease
• Management of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo
• Melatonin for primary insomnia?
• Review: immediate antiplatelet therapy after acute ischaemic stroke reduces death or dependency and risk of recurrent stroke

 

Patient information

 

• NHS Choices video - Sciatica: Robert's story
• NHS Choices video - Tourettes syndrome: Joanna's story
• MS Trust - StayingSmart

 

 

Full list of items added in July

 

 

Our Editors' Picks

 

The following items have been selected as highlights by our Topic Advisors:

 

• A fresh twist on carotid artery dissections
• Hypertension and late-life dementia: a real link?
• Temporal lobe epilepsy is a progressive neurologic disorder: Time means neurons!
• Case fatality after subarachnoid haemorrhage: declining, but why?
• The BASICS of treating symptomatic basilar artery thrombosis
• Diagnosis of dementia
• Migraine Headache in Middle Age and Late-Life Brain Infarcts
• Emerging therapies for relapsing multiple sclerosis

 

Forthcoming events

 

Below is a selection of forthcoming events for June and July. See all forthcoming events here. If you have an event you would like us to highlight in the neurological conditions specialist collection, please contact us.

 

 

September 2009

 

8^th - 12^th : 9th European Meeting on Glial Cells in Health and Disease (Paris, France)

12^th - 15^th: 13th Congress of the European Federation of Neurological Societies (Florence, Italy)

16^th: Managing Long Term Conditions - Personalised Care Plans and Self Care Services (London)

21^th: World Alzheimer's Day (worldwide)

21^st - 23^rd: British Association of Cognitive Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2009 (London)

25^th: International Ataxia Awareness Day (worldwide)

26^th: Migraine Education Day (London)

30^th - 3^rd October: 8th European Paediatric Neurology meeting (Harrogate)

 

October 2009

 

1^st: BMJ Masterclass for GPs: Neurology and Mental Health (Manchester)

3^rd: Primary Progressive MS Information Day (Hinckley, Leicestershire)

7^th - 9^th: International League Against Epilepsy UK Chapter Annual Scientific Meeting 2009 (Sheffield)

8^th - 9^th: 2nd Practical Cognition course (Newcastle)

 

 

Contact us

 

Please contact us if you have any suggestions or comments about the Library.

 

 

 

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Ruth Muscat

Information Specialist NHS Evidence - neurological conditions

Medical Library, Royal Free Hospital

Rowland Hill Street

Hampstead

London NW3 2PF

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7794 0500 ext. 38235

Fax: +44 (0) 20 7794 3534

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