As discussion leader for the keynote session ("Informing Etiology Through the Clinic"), Warren Olanow brought home the practical difficulties inherent in designing, implementing, and interpreting a trial of an agent designed to be "disease-modifying" or "neuroprotective" in PD.
A significant challenge to researchers wishing to help fill this knowledge gap is that the effects of Gp-9 are played out within a complex social system, and familiarity with this system as well as other basic elements of fire ant biology is key to designing, implementing, and interpreting meaningful studies.
We believe that it will be a useful reference point for anyone involved in drafting contracts between agricultural producers and their buyers, as well as those involved in implementing or interpreting them.
We are indebted to Fiona Ross and her colleagues at the LLR Myeloma Cytogenetic Database, Wessex Regional Genetic Laboratory, Salisbury, UK for their help in implementing and interpreting the microFISH technique as well as their input in the writing this manuscript.
But given the zoological, behavioral and ecological characteristics of wildlife populations, there are also some substantial differences that need to be taken into account when planning for, implementing and interpreting data from investigations into wildlife health.
Critics of the methodology rightly call for caution when implementing and interpreting RDS studies as, in some cases, they may be inadequate to meet some of the objectives for which they are used.
It appears that some implementing partners interpreted the question as referring only to professional or other formal clinical cadres.
In health promotion programmes, particularly those conducted within the framework of controlled trials, it is therefore necessary to take into account the level to which interventions are implemented when interpreting outcomes.
