This article describes a multi-layered family law clinic providing advice, counsel, and drafting assistance to returning citizens with child support related issues. As here, giving appropriate weight in the curriculum experiences of families marginalized by caste, race, other exclusionary dynamics requires moving beyond casebook-dependent teaching working across disciplines skill sets otherwise...

Shortly before his death in 1995, Kenneth B. Schwartz, a cancer patient at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), founded The Kenneth B. Schwartz Center at MGH. The Schwartz Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and advancing compassionate health care delivery, which provides hope to the patient, support to caregivers, and encourages the healing process. The center sponsors...

objectives: the assessment of the elderly’s health condition can help to design interventional studies to promote their satisfaction and quality of delivered medical services. we intended to evaluate health priorities of the aged population of minoodasht district. methods & materials: the data were collected from 119 people aged 60 or over through door-to-door structured interviews containing 2...

With rare exceptions, existing systems for effectuating the indigent criminal defendant’s right to counsel 2 range from disappointing to scandalously inadequate. 3 Inadequate funding is the most prominently mentioned concern, but often it is merely a symptom of a deeper problem of institutional structure, an Achilles’ heel that weakens almost all indigent defense systems, whether poorly funded ...

In a recent survey of cancer patients conducted by the Lance Armstrong Foundation (Austin, TX), nearly half of the individuals surveyed said that nonmedical issues relating to their cancer were unmet by their oncologists, including 35% who said nonmedical issues were wholly unaddressed and another 14% who said they believed their oncologists wanted to assist with nonmedical issues but did not h...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effects of a behavioural intervention for prevention of HIV and sexually transmitted diseases that identified, trained, and engaged leaders of Roma (Gypsy) men's social networks to counsel their own network members. DESIGN A two arm randomised controlled trial. SETTING A disadvantaged, impoverished Roma settlement in Bulgaria. PARTICIPANTS 286 Roma men from 52 s...