Lorna Watson

NHS Fife · Department of Public Health

Background: Standard treatment for deep vein thrombosis (DVT) aims to reduce immediate complications. Use of thrombolytic clot removal strategies (i.e. thrombolysis (clot dissolving drugs), with or without additional endovascular techniques), could reduce the long-term complications of post-thrombotic syndrome (PTS) including pain, swelling, skin...

Background: Exercise programmes are a relatively inexpensive, low-risk option compared with other, more invasive therapies for treatment of leg pain on walking (intermittent claudication (IC)). This is the fourth update of a review first published in 1998. Objectives: Our goal was to determine whether an exercise programme was effective in allev...

Background: Standard treatment for deep vein thrombosis aims to reduce immediate complications. Use of thrombolysis or clot dissolving drugs could reduce the long-term complications of post-thrombotic syndrome (PTS) including pain, swelling, skin discolouration, or venous ulceration in the affected leg. This is the third update of a review first p...

Objective: The study aimed to design and evaluate a health behaviour change intervention for looked after young people, targeting sexual health, smoking, exercise, healthy eating and non-dependent alcohol and drug use. Design: A pre–post intervention evaluation was undertaken exploring health behaviours and wellbeing. Methodology: The one-to-one...

This is a reprint of a Cochrane review, prepared and maintained by The Cochrane Collaboration and published in The Cochrane Library 2014, Issue 7

Standard treatment for deep vein thrombosis aims to reduce immediate complications. Use of thrombolysis or clot dissolving drugs could reduce the long-term complications of post-thrombotic syndrome (PTS) (pain, swelling, skin discolouration, or venous ulceration) in the affected leg. This is the second update of a review first published in 2004. To...

Background National guidelines stress the importance of early diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This pilot investigated the feasibility and acceptability of assessing children in their community. Method The pilot study was carried out from August 2007 to January 2009, and the roll-out of the programme started in 2010 and is currently und...

Looked after young people represent a group of people under a supervision order with a local authority. They are frequently reported engaging in poorer health behaviours than are their peers. There are few reported assessments of behaviour change interventions for looked after young people, therefore the effectiveness of existing interventions and...

Looked after young people (LAYP) have poorer sexual health outcomes than their peers. However, research seldom examines the health needs of, or intervenes with, this group. The aim of the current study was to identify LAYP's perceived sexual health needs and explore sources of sexual health information, knowledge levels, concerns and service prefer...

Exercise programmes are a relatively inexpensive, low-risk option compared with other more invasive therapies for leg pain on walking (intermittent claudication (IC)). To determine the effects of exercise programmes on IC, particularly in respect of reduction of symptoms on walking and improvement in quality of life. The Cochrane Peripheral Vascula...

BACKGROUND: Exercise programmes are a relatively inexpensive, low-risk option compared with other more invasive therapies for leg pain on walking (intermittent claudication (IC)). OBJECTIVES: To determine the effects of exercise programmes on IC, particularly in respect of reduction of symptoms on walking and improvement in quality of life. SEARCH...

Objective Prevention of infection with blood-borne pathogens (BBPs) HIV and hepatitis B and C, remains a major public health challenge. The aim of this study was to assess the activity, knowledge and attitudes of community pharmacy assistants in Grampian in prevention of HIV and hepatitis B and C. Method A cross-sectional postal questionnaire surv...

IntroductionDefinition and pathogenesis of peripheral arterial diseaseClinical spectrumDescriptive epidemiologyRelation of peripheral arterial disease to ischaemic heart disease and strokeRisk factors for peripheral arterial disease in relation to the metabolic syndromeThe metabolic syndrome and peripheral arterial diseasePrognosis of peripheral ar...

The use of pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine has remained controversial since licensure, especially in the elderly. Observational studies form much of the evidence base. We conducted a systematic review of observational studies and compared results with those obtained from an earlier review of randomised controlled trials (RCTs). Estimates of pro...

Standard treatment for deep vein thrombosis (DVT) aims to reduce immediate complications. Use of thrombolysis or clot dissolving drugs could reduce the long-term complications of post-thrombotic syndrome (pain, swelling, skin discolouration, or venous ulceration) in the affected leg. To determine the efficacy and safety of thrombolysis for DVT. Pub...

Unlabelled: Pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine is recommended in western countries for individuals at high risk of pneumococcal illness. We undertook a systematic review of randomised controlled trials of pneumococcal vaccine in adults, to determine the effects on clinical outcomes. Results: In industrialised populations, no benefit was detecte...

The recent rise in the prevalence of immune-mediated diseases has been attributed to environmental factors such as a lack of microbial challenge, or dietary change, that deviate the overall balance between mutually antagonistic subsets of T helper (Th) cells. An alternative proposal is that recent environmental changes have resulted in an immune sy...

EDITOR—Johnston and Openshaw state that children are born with strong interleukin 4 based (type 2) immune responses and mature to interferon γ based (type 1) responses, and that this process is under genetic and environmental influence.1 They go on to …