Breaking the cycle

Breaking the cycle.

While malnutrition is associated with sub-Saharan Africa, there are nearly double the numbers affected in heavily populated areas of South Asia. The Child in Need Institute has been working to break the malnutrition cycle for 30 years.

Breaking the Cycle of Addiction:

241 Children of alcoholics (COA’s) are at increased risk for a wide range of behavioral and emotional problems, including addiction to alcohol and other drugs (AOD’s), depression, anxiety, school failure, and delinquency (Adger 1997; Emshoff and Anyan 1989; Sher 1991). Prevention and intervention efforts attempt to reduce this risk by modifying riskassociated factors. In general, prevention pro...

Breaking the Cycle of Mistrust

Breaking a vicious cycle.

Despite prodigious advances in tumor biology research, few tumor-biomarker tests have been adopted as standard clinical practice. This lack of reliable tests stems from a vicious cycle of undervaluation, resulting from inconsistent regulatory standards and reimbursement, as well as insufficient investment in research and development, scrutiny of biomarker publications by journals, and evidence ...

Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Patent Damages

Patent law is implicitly, and sometimes explicitly, based upon a story of patent infringement in which technology users are presumed to be able to discover relevant patents in advance and either design around them or negotiate patent licenses before using the patented technology. That story does not hold true in many fields today, in which the number and widespread ownership of potentially rele...