Drug-seeking patients include recreational drug abusers, addicts whose dependence occurred through abuse or the injudicious prescription of narcotics, and pseudoaddicts who have chronic pain that has not been appropriately managed. Opioids produce euphoria in some patients, providing the motivation for abuse, which can be detrimental even with occasional use. Even in the absence of overt euphor...

It has been found that humic acid in dose levels of 100-300 milligrams per kilogram body weight has no effect on bleeding time, clotting time, thrombin time, plate count, or induced platelet aggregation (49). Red blood cells and hemoglobin stay on normal levels under the influence of humate in comparison with control groups (15). Literature has indicated that the red blood cells have the capabi...

Accessible online at: www.karger.com/journals/drm Today, there is ample scientific evidence for the clinical effectiveness, safety and patient comfort of tacrolimus ointment in the treatment of moderate to severe atopic dermatitis. Recent, well-documented reports on doubleblind, vehicle-controlled, randomized clinical studies encompass data from 419 adults [1] and 235 children [2] who were succ...

Pediatric Bipolar Disorder (BD) is a highly morbid pediatric psychiatric disease, consistently associated with family psychiatric history of mood disorders and associated with high levels of morbidity and disability and with a great risk of suicide. While there is a general consensus on the symptomatology of depression in childhood, the phenomenology of pediatric mania is still highly debated a...

The euphoria of the late 1990s that the private sector will resolve much of the management needs and investment requirements for water supply and sanitation of the developing world is now mostly over. The multinational companies that were actively soliciting the management concessions for water supply and sanitation services for the major urban centres, during the second half of the 1990s, have...

The last two years have seen a rapid development of the use of the Internet in doing economic transactions (E-Commerce). Now that the euphoria has subsided, it is necessary to closely examine which E-Commerce applications will remain and why. Our paper will focus on Electronic B2B Marketplaces. We first define and classify this category of e-commerce and present the value generating models depl...