But by the 1970s my father was increasingly questioning the sustainability of some of the more intensive practices, as well as the animal-welfare issues involved.
The watchdog also raised concern that councils were focusing on those in need of more intensive support, as well as tightening who was eligible for help and increasing charges, at the expense of others.
However, mammographic density, jointly with other genetic and non-genetic risk factors, can be used to stratify women in the population according to risk for tailored screening (by identifying those who may benefit from more intensive screening as well as those for whom screening may be more harmful than beneficial).
Though such programs were intended to be transitional, nearly half of all students who are enrolled in bilingual education or the more intensive English-as-a-second-language classes fail to master English well enough to leave the program after three years, according to a study released last month by the City Board of Education.
This group has an overall survival rate of between 20 and 30% and new approaches to therapy including more intensive chemotherapy schedules as well as high-dose therapy with haemopoietic stem-cell rescue are being evaluated [ 25].
A review of the controlled trials showed weaning was possible, but that simple (but very slow) tapering was as effective as more intensive methods such as cognitive therapy counselling.
Under the new policy, parents of students who fail English competency tests will be asked to enroll their children in one of four programs: traditional bilingual education; English as a second language classes; a more intensive English as a second language program; or dual language, a program in which students may be taught in Spanish one day and English the next.
Primary research has shown it to be as effective as other more intensive interventions such as cognitive behavioural therapy, twelve steps facilitation therapy and social behavioural network therapy [ 33, 34].
However, as this type of diabetes is progressive and chronic, it requires more intensive therapy as the disease progresses.
