Southern occupational therapies: Emerging identities, epistemologies and practices

Toward culturally relevant epistemologies in occupational therapy.

September/October 2003, Volume 57, Number 5 Ours can be a much more meaningful profession. Occupational therapy continues to develop into an international movement that endeavours to benefit individuals and societies by focusing on the important, many would say essential, dynamic between what people do and their states of well-being. However, it seems as though we have not fully considered whet...

Emerging Drug Therapies for Heart Failure

Heart failure is associated with high morbidity and mortality and is proving to be an economic burden in developing countries. A number of therapeutic agents are presently employed in heart failure; but they are not sufficient to control symptoms of heart failure. Moreover, the prevalence of chronic heart failure is progressively increasing and thus there is a continuing need to develop effecti...

Mentalités, Identities, and Practices

Emerging therapies.

The results of the European Cooperative Acute Stroke Study III (ECASS III) provide an important advance for the field of acute stroke therapy. The study was well-designed and conducted. The trial provides unequivocal and straightforward evidence that treatment with intravenous (IV) tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) initiated 3 to 4.5 hours after the onset of ischemic stroke improves 90-day out...

Emerging Therapies

Indirect comparisons of CAPRIE, ESPS-2, and MATCH trials led many stroke experts to favor the combination of aspirin and extended-release dipyridamole (ASA/ERD) over clopidogrel as the preferred antiplatelet therapy for secondary stroke prevention.1–3 The Prevention Regimen for Effectively Avoiding Second Strokes (PRoFESS) study, a 2 2 factorial, double-blind, event-driven, active and placebo-c...