These findings did stimulate the development of various mutual and self-help organizations for bereaved adults. Later, when studies on childhood bereavement showed that children also grieve and can benefit from support, programs for bereaved children were established. The Dougy Center in Portland, Orego...
It is questionable whether these increases in the last month of life provide benefit for patients and their families, or whether they may in fact be increasing suffering. Costs also increase across the year, with again a dramatic increase in the last month. Most of the costs arise from ...
The second question is also important given recent Ontario cases challenging the application of a brain-based definition of death on the ground of freedom of religion, which is protected under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. This paper outlines several potential Charter- based legal ...
Effectively studying and assessing the implementation of policy interventions such as MPDSR among LMICs as well as understanding what the actors involved actu- ally do, however, can benefit from theoretically informed approaches. Theoretical approaches provide a better understanding and explanation of how...
(Figure 2a). However, when aged hMSCs were exposed to serum free medium combined with either hypoxia or 500 μM H2O2, a concentration of 0.5 μM was needed for maximal survival benefit (72.4±7.5% under hypoxia, 67.0±4.2% under H2O2stress) (Figures 2b and c). Therefore, a ...
82 Viruses regulate apoptosis to benefit their replication cycle by both ensuring apoptosis is not initiated prematurely and by promoting apoptosis once the host cell viral load is high, thereby facilitating infection of surrounding cells including invading immune cells. For example, some viruses express...
Autophagy promotes cancer cell survival and drug resistance by degrading harmful cellular components and maintaining cellular energy levels. Disruption of autophagy may be a promising approach to sensitize cancer cells to anticancer drugs. The combinatio
uncertainty and disagreement among health care professionals over the biological basis of death.13,51,52,53Calls for increased education and standardization highlight the need to clarify this biological basis for the benefit of practicing health care professionals.17...
David Green, The Public Advocate for the State of Victoria, argues that: “detention for the purpose of treatment and care for the benefit of the represented person is an appropriate role for substituted consent. Detention for the purpose of protecting the interests of others is not. While ...
(now U.S. Patent 6,348,567), which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application No. 08/759,599, filed Dec. 5, 1996 (now U.S. Pat. No. 5,917,013), which claims benefit from U.S. Provisional Application 60/008,233, filed Dec. 6, 1995 (now abandoned), each of ...