Public engagement should start early

Why should we promote public engagement with science?

This introductory essay looks back on the two decades since the journal Public Understanding of Science was launched. Drawing on the invited commentaries in this special issue, we can see narratives of continuity and change around the practice and politics of public engagement with science. Public engagement would seem to be a necessary but insufficient part of opening up science and its govern...

Should fertilization treatment start with reducing stress?

In the past few decades, new and more efficient techniques to help solve fertility problems have become widely available throughout the developed world. These techniques include hormonal stimulation, ICSI, gamete intra-Fallopian transfer (GIFT) and IVF, and their cost is, on average, considerable. There is substantial initial evidence that the psychological disposition of the parents-to-be infl...

When should we start erythropoietin therapy?

Preventing School Dropouts Should Start in Preschool

In " Reframing School Dropout as a Public Health Issue " (1), Freudenberg and Ruglis make a succinct, yet compelling , case. Arguably, reducing racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in educational achievement (including disparities related to graduating from high school by age 18 years) is key to reducing not only disparities in adult incarceration and socioeconomic position but also to...

Should we use poor prognosis factors to start early treatment in patients with rheumatoid arthritis?

Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has undergone a radical change in recent years by optimization not only of classical treatments with disease modifying drugs and the introduction of new biological therapies,1–8 but also of the objectives (treat to target) in the shortand long-terms in monitoring and standardization of patients and procedures.9 It is increasingly evident that there is a wi...