Curaidh^® Research Outputs

Patients with persistent debilitating symptoms and normal test results can face a diagnostic odyssey. A paradigm shift to legitimising skilled diagnostic doubt.

Dr Minha and expert patient Tracy Jallow BEM presented on the patient–physician dynamic in antiphospholipid syndrome at the FPOD conference in London.

Medically unexplained symptoms in primary care: Dr Minha Rajput-Ray's session for GPs at the Royal Society of Medicine's 44th annual general practice update.

Pain fell significantly after antibiotics in chronic tick-borne infection, from a median of 7 to 5, but the blood markers studied did not predict who improved.

Persistent symptoms with no clear diagnosis: four perspectives from patients and healthcare professionals on repeat appointments and inconclusive tests.

Managing pain, arthritis and fatigue in Lyme disease and tick-borne co-infections: a session for natural healthcare practitioners at the AKESO conference.

Salutogenesis and sustainable health: a talk by Dr Minha Rajput-Ray, integrative and ecological physician, at the 2024 Soil and Nutrition Conference.

In 110 patients treated for Lyme and tick-borne infections, low immune cell counts mostly improved after antibiotics, even where antibody tests were negative.

Of 301 people tested for tick-borne infection at an Irish clinic, 140 tested positive. On combination antibiotics, pain and neurological symptoms fell.

A chapter on nutrition in bone, joint and muscle disease and in disability medicine, from Essentials of Nutrition in Medicine and Healthcare: A Practical Guide.

A charity webinar on invisible conditions: the physician's perspective on diagnostic uncertainty, and why patient stories matter. With Dr Adrian Tookman.

165 occupational health professionals in 52 countries judged insecure, informal and unemployed workers most at risk of further harm from the COVID-19 pandemic.

What should you eat on a night shift? Three experts tell The BMJ how eating well at night keeps your energy up and brings long-term benefits.

A chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Clinical and Healthcare Research: the legal requirements and the practical steps of running, analysing and reporting it.

Dr Minha Rajput-Ray chaired a session on funding calls and their impact on results at the third EqUIP EU-India symposium in Helsinki, June 2016.

123 doctors and 56 dietitians in Kolkata valued nutrition in hospital care, but neither group felt confident in nutrition advocacy or leadership.

97 UK dietitians surveyed on hydration in patient care: attitudes scored high, knowledge and everyday practice scored lower, with room to improve both.

How vitamins and micronutrients behave in critical illness, and what intensive care patients need. A chapter from Cambridge's Nutrition in Critical Care.

Junior doctors trained in clinical nutrition, change management and leadership ran nutrition awareness weeks in three NHS hospitals, and scored higher after.

How Cambridge built nutrition into the clinical years of its medical degree, and the three things that helped: team leadership, varied teaching, teamwork.

A BMJ letter from NNEdPro, a group of doctors and dietitians: nutrition and hydration training for medical students and junior doctors can close the gap.

Two-day nutrition training for 100 medical students from 15 English medical schools: knowledge, attitudes and practice all rose, still up at three months.

Simple verbal and numerical pain scales worked for war-injured civilians in Sierra Leone, whatever their schooling. The visual scale proved hard to explain.

First report of the NNEdPro pilot: 100 senior medical students from 15 medical schools took a two-day clinical nutrition course of lectures and role play.

Evidence suggests about half of stroke patients are undernourished on admission and many decline further in hospital. A review of the feeding guidelines.