"God forbid that truth should be confined to mathematical demonstration..." The chair of the UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, Professor Sir Michael Rawlins, quotes the poet William Bake in an assault on the limitations of randomized controlled trials.
Two studies suggest a strong link between troubled family life, poor sleep and developmental setbacks – and also give a hint that prevention scientists might benefit from brushing up their Shakespeare.
Choose the right “operating system” when introducing prevention programs and your worries that faithful implementation and local ownership are mutually exclusive might just fade away.
Philadelphia researchers argue that so extreme has been the emotional climate generated by the US administration's preoccupation with a war on terror that investigation is warranted into the effects on young people of what they call “secondhand terrorism”.