Ostomyland is pleased to announce that a link for the UK Urostomy Association has been added to our website links page. 80% of it’s members have a Urostomy due to bladder cancer. A registered charity in the UK, the Urostomy Association has an excellent website with lots of content for all Urostomates and their carers/friends/family.

You can find the UK Urostomy Association website at: www.uagbi.org

ScienceDaily reports that researchers at the University of Hertfordshire have developed a new tool to assess how well patients adjust psychologically after stoma surgery. The tool is designed for use by nurses in clinical practice.

According to Dr Kingsley Simmons at the University’s School of Nursing and Midwifery, who has just published a new study, up to now post-operative care for stoma patients focused on the physical aspects predominantly with little emphasis on psychosocial adjustment.
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The NY Times recently reported about a possible shortage of Gastroenterologist surgeons within the United States Health System if current rates of colorectal cancer screening continue as they are.

The paper reports that a study by the Lewis Group has forecast that by 2020 an additional 1050 surgeons would be needed, and if the cancer screening rate increased by 10%  there may be as much as a 1500 shortfall in the required Gastro numbers.

What are your thoughts on this matter? Please feel free to leave comments and discussion about this story using the read user’s comments link below, or visit our lively forums and have your say!

For the full NY Times report please visit:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/09/health/research/09gastro.html?_r=2

This story was first posted on the Oland forums by Kathy_From_England - thank you to her for bringing this to our attention.

Thanks to the Ostomyland widget, you can now add your favourite Ostomy Support website news feed to your Facebook, Bebo, Myspace etc pages. The widget showing the latest Ostomyland news feeds can be found at:

http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/ostomyland

The widget has options for the following installations/blogs/websites:
Website Embeded Code, Facebook, MySpace, Blogger & Blogger Posts, TypePad, WordPress, LiveJournal, Tagged, Multiply, Google, NetVibes, FreeWeb, PageFlakes, Piczo, and finally Ning

Easy installation instructions can be found on the widget webpage and on your chosen blogs widget support pages.

Click on read more for a screenshot of the widget.

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