Early multidomain intervention to stave off Alzheimer’s disease

Cut intake of saturated fats to stave off coronary heart disease.

Replacing major saturated fatty acids with unsaturated fats, whole grain carbohydrates or plant proteins is an effective way to prevent coronary heart disease, say researchers.

Early intervention in rheumatoid arthritis pays off

The outlook for patients with newly diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has improved greatly, but many questions remain, including when to initiate therapy and what drugs to use. Recently issued recommendations for managing early RA include referring patients who present with arthritis of more than 1 joint to a rheumatologist. Combination's of drugs have been shown to be more effective than mon...

Early encounter to clinic report of an intervention

Introduction. Learning medicine could have many tension and anxieties like encounter to a strange educational and clinical environment. Early clinical exposure is supposed to suppress these stresses and motivate students with a better attitude and awareness. Methods. In an interventional study with a pretest –post test method 45 first and second year medical students were encountered to cli...

Vietnam needs cash to stave off future outbreaks of bird flu.

Supporting Families through Early Intervention

Internationally early intervention programmes for infants and preschoolers with disabilities have proved to be remarkably successful. In many countries, they began with teachers for visually impaired or hearing impaired children visiting the family home to teach parents how they could overcome the childchr('39')s impairments. The logic of early intervention was inequitable. For example, the soo...