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Current therapy for patients with Parkinson’s disease shown to be ineffective
Parkinson’s disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system, affecting approximately seven million people across the globe and 4% of those aged over 80.New research from the University of Birmingham has shown that physiotherapy and occupational therapy do not produce improvements in quality of life for patients with mild to moderate Parkinson’s disease.Findings... (Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News)
Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News - January 20, 2016 Category: American Health Source Type: news

CBT effective treatment for depression
People with depression that have not responded fully to treatment with antidepressants benefit long-term from receiving a type of talking therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), given in addition to their usual treatment that includes antidepressant medication, finds a new study published today (January 6th) in The Lancet Psychiatry.Dr Nicola Wiles, from the School of Social... (Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News)
Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News - January 7, 2016 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Use of Statins show no signs for the prevention of Dementia
Dementia (including Alzheimer's disease) is a global healthcare concern with the number of people affected worldwide predicted to double every 20 years, reaching 131.5 million by 2050. It is therefore important to find ways of preventing the disease. It has been suggested that high levels of cholesterol in the serum (part of the blood) may... (Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News)
Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News - January 6, 2016 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Treating multiple narrowed arteries at the time of a heart attack
A new study looking into the effects of treating multiple narrowed arteries at the time of a heart attack has published its findings in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC)Funded by the Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation (EME) programme, an MRC and NIHR partnership, the study examined if treating more than one artery... (Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News)
Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News - December 22, 2015 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Tom Walley reflects on his time as Director of the NIHR HTA Programme
My term of office as director of the HTA Programme ends this year, so I wanted to take a few minutes to reflect on what it has been like for the past 12 years. When I began in 2004, the HTA Programme was much smaller, but ambitious, and almost the only part of DH R&D... (Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News)
Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News - December 18, 2015 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Screening for ovarian cancer in women over 50 could save lives
The results from a 14-year trial of ovarian cancer screening suggest that annual screening using a specialised algorithm may save lives.Currently, a quarter of a million women worldwide develop ovarian cancer each year with more than half dying from the disease, despite extensive surgery and chemotherapy. Initial estimates from the largest ever trial of ovarian... (Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News)
Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News - December 17, 2015 Category: American Health Source Type: news

The NIHR PHR Programme: responding to local authority research needs in the UK
A review that reflects on the diversity of public health interventions outside of the NHS in the NIHR PHR Programme, has published in Health Research Policy and Systems this week.The paper illustrates how the PHR Programme is providing new knowledge for public health decision makers, based on the nine key areas for local authority public... (Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News)
Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News - December 16, 2015 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Engagement in research shown to improve healthcare performance
Research, funded the NIHR HS&DR Programme, has found that when clinicians do research as well as delivering care, there is a likelihood that their organisation’s healthcare performance goes up. The study, published in BMJ Open (Boaz, et al, 2015), addressed the question does research engagement (by clinicians and organisations) improve healthcare performance? Led by Professor... (Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News)
Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News - December 15, 2015 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Improving decision making for communication aids
A three-year project beginning in January 2016 and funded by the HS&DR Programme will help speech and language researchers examine how vital symbol-based communication aids may be better prescribed to improve the quality of life for children with limited natural speech.Children with little or no natural speech often communicate through symbolic communication aids to hold... (Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News)
Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News - December 14, 2015 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Effectiveness of different models of delivering urgent care
A HS&DR funded review to assess the quality of existing evidence on models for provision of safe and effective emergency care has published in the Journals Library.The review also wanted to identify if there are any evidence gaps that require further primary research or evidence synthesis. A total of 45 systematic reviews and 102 primary... (Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News)
Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News - December 14, 2015 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Further evidence needed to show cycling infrastructure reduces cycling injuries
A NIHR Cochrane review has published a review of cycling infrastructure to evaluate the effects it has had on reducing cycling injuries and their impact on different age, gender and social groups of cyclists.The review is published at a time when cycling is increasingly promoted as benefiting people’s health and helping reduce traffic congestion. However,... (Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News)
Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News - December 11, 2015 Category: American Health Source Type: news

NIHR Themed Call: prevention and treatment of obesity open for applications
The National Institute for Health Research has issued a call for research into the evaluation of interventions or services for the prevention and treatment of obesity in adults and children. Issues of particular importance for this call include the prevention of type 2 diabetes and increasing levels of physical activity.This call is an initiative by... (Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News)
Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News - December 9, 2015 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Top three viewed issues of HS&DR journals for the year
HS&DR journal has continued to highlight the important evidence from the HS&DR projects throughout 2015. Below are the top three most viewed issues of the journal so far this year. These three issues have had a combined total of 7,258 page views.The most viewed issue was:Taylor S, Pinnock H, Epiphanou E, Pearce G, Parke H,... (Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News)
Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News - December 2, 2015 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Top three viewed HS&DR reports in the year to Nov 2015
HS&DR journal has continued to highlight the important evidence from the HS&DR projects throughout 2015. Below are the top three most viewed issues of the journal so far this year. These three issues have had a combined total of 7,258 page views.The most viewed issue was:Taylor S, Pinnock H, Epiphanou E, Pearce G, Parke H,... (Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News)
Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News - December 2, 2015 Category: American Health Source Type: news