Interventions for Modern Times

Interventions for modern times: complex, collaborative, and culturally appropriate.

Approximately 1 in 3 adults in the United States has cardiovascular disease (CVD), and this burden is more pronounced in those who are socioeconomically disadvantaged and from certain minority ethnic groups.1 Modest sustained lifestyle adjustments can decrease CVD burden, but initiating and maintaining these changes is challenging. A complex interplay of patient, provider, and system factors ca...

Editorial Interventions for Modern Times Complex , Collaborative , and Culturally Appropriate

Approximately 1 in 3 adults in the United States has cardiovascular disease (CVD), and this burden is more pronounced in those who are socioeconomically disadvantaged and from certain minority ethnic groups.1 Modest sustained lifestyle adjustments can decrease CVD burden, but initiating and maintaining these changes is challenging. A complex interplay of patient, provider, and system factors ca...

Modern Times

Diabetes : Modern Times.

*Endocrinology Unit, Department of Clinical Medicine, S. Orsola-Malpighi General Hospital, Bologna, Italy, 40138 I 1964 Dorothy Crowfort Hodgkin (19101944) (Figure 1) won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of insulin molecular structure by X-ray crystallography. In 1977 Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (born in 1921) (Figure 2) was awarded with Nobel Prize for the development of radioimmunoassay of polypep...

Family practice: meanings for modern times.

THE SUBJECT OF THE PICKLES LECTURE The archives* of William Pickles’ personal and professional papers reveal him as a ‘family man’: his marriage was long and happy, and he knew each of his patients intimately. He was, in Aysgarth, a ‘father figure’, who was consistently committed to the community he served for many years, and who went the extra mile to help them; something that we would normall...