health workers - to be encouraged or condemned?

Informal health workers -- to be encouraged or condemned?

Home-based care of patients is increasing in importance in many societies, particularly where health facilities are overwhelmed by human immune deficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) and patients are returned to their homes to be cared for or to await death. Care is mostly provided by close family members who have no formal training in health care, though in some cases t...

Fungi: too evolved to be condemned.

Why lesbians should be encouraged to have regular cervical screening.

INTRODUCTION The UK National Health Service Cervical Screening Programme (NHSCSP) advice on cervical cytology screening states that women who have never had sex with men are at very low risk of developing cervical cancer, and advice regarding need for screening in lesbians is inconsistent. METHODS Literature review searching PubMed, Web of Science and the Internet for articles on lesbians, ce...

Risk stratification in clinical trials: a subgroup to be encouraged

The analysis of randomised controlled trials by subgroups of individuals (e.g. according to age or gender) remains controversial and often misinterpreted. It is recognised that such analyses should be limited to a few pre-specified key baseline factors. In addition an appropriate analysis typically calculates effect estimates and confidence intervals within such subgroups together with an overa...

Cervical screening: why young women should be encouraged to be screened.

BACKGROUND The English National Health Service Cervical Screening Programme (NHSCSP) recommendation not to offer cervical screening to women aged 20-24 years is considered in the context of national rates of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 3 (CIN3) and invasive cervical carcinoma, falling screening coverage in young women, detection of screen-detected invasive cancers and risks of exci...