A View from home

The History of Home Hemodialysis: A View From Seattle.

Home hemodialysis was first used for the treatment of end-stage renal disease in the early 1960s, primarily as a means of reducing the cost of treatment. It was soon found to be an effective form of treatment that provided patient independence, greater opportunity for rehabilitation, and better survival. In 1973, when the Medicare End-Stage Renal Disease Program began, some 40% of all U.S. dial...

The Experience of Teleworking: A View from the Home

Home Care Support from the Database Point of View

Supporting ambulant care through information technologies will assist the care personnel in their everyday routine resulting in more time for their patients. Therefore the MARIKA project focusses on developing an assistance system for facilitating the care documentation process through pervasive technologies. In this context, various data need to be handled which requires database techniques fo...

A Home Away from Home

Someday, many people hope, humans will travel to Mars. The U.S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) has plans for a mission to the planet in the 2030s, and entrepreneur Elon Musk says his SpaceX company can do it by 2024. If people succeed in setting up an outpost on Mars, they’ll need to build someplace for astronauts to live, sleep, and work. But hauling building materials acro...

A review on addiction from a psychoanalytic view, from fixation to emotion dysregulation

Addiction is a chronic and recurrent disease, which has always been the focus of various psychological perspectives. Psychoanalysis theories are fundamental in the modern treatment of addiction. As we have seen changes in the structure and process of methods during the time, they have changed in defining the concept of addiction. According to classic theories, addiction is an equivalent to mast...