Maternal deaths: the need to rethink coping strategies

Education: the need for a rethink.

Mark Twain's observation about the long term effects of soap and education appeals to our common sense, but it is difficult to assess the true influence of these simple processes on society. The same is true in rheumatology. Most of us believe in the benefits of improving the rheumatological knowledge of doctors and patients, but it is difficult to prove that education is effective. What do pat...

Why We Need to Rethink the Diseases of Affluence

0370 M ost people believe that as societies advance economically they have higher levels of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and other noncommunicable disease (NCD) risks. However, a more detailed analysis of how parameters of economic development are associated with health outcomes as well as NCD risk factors is needed to inform local and global health policies. Such an analysis might dispel preju...

READER REACTION Bioequivalence TestiIlg-A Need to Rethink

The symmetric confidence interval method for bioequivalence testing, proposed by Westlake (1976, 1979), is founded on a premise which is highly questionable, and in his description of the method, Westlake confuses two distinct statistical issues. The purpose of this note is to clarify the apparent flaws in Westlake's method and to point out a formal similarity between testing drugs for bioequiv...

Childhood cancer: maternal perceptions and strategies for coping with diagnosis.

OBJECTIVE To investigate maternal perceptions of childhood cancer and strategies for coping in a pediatric unit in Recife, Brazil. METHODS This descriptive exploratory study was conducted using qualitative methods. The reports of 10 patients' mothers were analyzed according to a saturation sampling technique. The investigation was conducted in a pediatric oncology unit of the Instituto Matern...

Urological education: Do we need a rethink?