What are the Alternatives to Jail?

What alternatives to first-line therapy for depression are effective?

Depression is often a chronic illness that requires a methodical, long-term approach to manage it optimally. A single antidepressant trial is often insufficient for patients to achieve remission. Remission rates for selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are about 30% to 35%. Using successive treatment steps with optimal medication dosing and making measurement-based treatment decisions can he...

What are Stem Cells?

  Stem cells are undifferentiated self regenerating multi potential cells. There are three types of stem cells categories by the ability to form after cells and correlated with the body’s development process. Totipotent: these stem cells can form an entire organism such as fertilized egg. Ploripotent: ploripotent cells are those that can form any cell in the body but cannot form an entire organ...

Doing without codeine: why and what are the alternatives?

Codeine is a mild opioid widely used as an analgesic in various age groups, including various pediatric settings. It is a prodrug that owes its analgesic effect almost entirely to the principal metabolite: morphine. The genetic polymorphisms can contribute to making the pharmacokinetics of codeine hard to predict and this it is particularly important in the pediatric population because infants ...

Matching Literacy Testing with Social Policy: What are the Alternatives?

The Departments of Education, Labor, and Health and Human Services now administer a variety of social programs that incorporate literacy training. Adult Basic Education (ABE), English as a Second Language (ESL), JOBS, workplace literacy, family literacy, library literacy, and correctional institution education are the primary examples of these programs, but others exist that either provide lite...

The contribution of a mature real estate market to urban regeneration: What are the prerequisites?