The commonly held view that pregnant women should ‘eat for two’ is challenged in new guidance from Britain’s National Institute for Clinical Health.

Patrick Chaulk was part of the team that rid Baltimore of Tuberculosis (TB). Now he’s ready for a new challenge: helping to bring universal health care to his home city.

Evidence-based practice should be about more than professionals consuming pre-packaged guidance. Vashti Berry is impressed by Trisha Greenhalgh’s attempt to empower front-line practitioner.

A new edition of a standard manual on diagnosis raises questions about how diagnosis can strengthen prevention science.

For the first time in its history, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders has published a draft edition of its coming fifth edition. This means that mental health professionals, researchers and those affected by mental illness have an opportunity to shape the final work.

In the first of a series of articles, Prevention Action looks at the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, one of the world’s most influential psychiatric diagnostic tools, and how its latest edition is being developed.

The effects of an after-school anti-drug program showed all the signs of being positive until the first randomized trial showed that things were not as previously believed.

Do effective models exist for communities wishing to help cut delinquency, teenage pregnancy, school drop-out and substance abuse? New research gives high marks to one of the best-known ones/ Communities that Care.

New research suggests that substantial increases in mental health problems among young people in England are real – and hints at a vicious cycle affecting future generations.

Services are poor and money for them is short. The response, says Tom Dishion, has to be affordable, effective assessments and interventions provided in schools and other places where there is regular contact with children and families.

Is a sudden rise in UK care proceedings more evidence of the damage being done to the cause of prevention and child protection in the politically-manipulated aftermath of the Baby Peter case?

There might be argument about its essential content and general effectiveness, but evidence continues to point to the potential of a good preschool system to level the educational playing field for disadvantaged children.

The need to adapt proven programs to local conditions worries developers and evaluators, but inside the Functional Family Therapy Inc. they take a rosier view, treating adjustment to local conditions as a valuable investment in future international relationships.

Two studies of different factors in the public health argument have come to the same conclusion – better to ban smoking in public places and be done with it

A book summary of the results of the UK Good Childhood Inquiry makes the case for a new approach to child welfare and well-being retrieving – and promoting above creative individualism – ideas about public service and neighborly love.