Evidence about the longer-term performance of the latest generation of community-driven public health interventions is beginning to emerge from a University of Washington research comparison.
Research into childhood asthma among families arriving in the US from Latin America casts doubts on the ‘Hispanic Paradox’ – that less American means more healthy.
A US early childhood support program that aims to provide new 'baby owners' with the equivalent of the missing manual in the form of expert advice has emerged from a Chicago evaluation showing only modest gains.
Researchers see worrying signs of a knowledge gap opening between the traditional curriculum-based skills teachers use in the classroom and recent advances in cognitive neuroscience and genetic and environmental studies.