Remember the « Strong Programme » ?

The Strong Parents-Strong Children Programme: parental support in serious and chronic child illness.

AIM To determine the effectiveness of an intervention programme developed to help parents manage serious child illness. METHOD Information from previous research about parents' stress of managing their children's serious illnesses, plus their wishes for what to do about it, were used to develop a behavioural intervention to be used with groups of parents with seriously ill children. The 6-wee...

Remember the Protofibrils

The highly prevalent neurodegenerative diseases Alzheimer’s (AD), Parkinson’s (PD), and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) have managed to elude countless efforts directed at understanding their causative agents and pathogenesis. Each of these diseases is characterized by abnormal protein aggregation under an unknown modi operandi we have determined to illuminate. AD pathology consists of neur...

Remember the Jones Criteria?

The opportunity to remember William

William Richard Gowers (1845-1915) was one of the most prolific and insightful neurologists of all times. He gave major contributions to the development of the medicine through the presentation of signs, syndromes, new concepts and many publications, mainly based on his thorough examination of his patients at the National Hospital, London. In this paper, they were enrolled several Gowers’ contr...

TST programme of USTC

Alternative medicine in Bangladesh context means Unani/Ayurvedic and Homeopathic medicine. Government recognizes and patronizes allopathic (modern and western) medicine. This system through Government Institutions viz. hospitals and health care centres can offer services to only about 30% people. The other two systems (Unani/Ayurvedic and Homeopathic) can serve 50-60% people. Limited health man...