Counting all results before LIMIT

We have a PHP web application that pulls results from the database and
paginates them.
We show e.g. "1-50 of 300" so the user knows how many total results there
are, and which ones are currently being displayed.
To achieve this, we use a query with LIMIT...OFFSET to get the displayed
results, and we do another identical query using count(*) to get the total
count.
Is there a more efficient way to do this that does not require us to do two
queries? I just feel that it's a waste of resources the way we do it.

Thanks!

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Moshe Jacobson
Nead Werx, Inc. | Senior Systems Engineer
2323 Cumberland Parkway, Suite 201 | Atlanta, GA 30339
moshe(at)neadwerx(dot)com | www.neadwerx.com