Unemployment and drug treatment.

Background: Since 2007 the economic recession has hit most industrial countries and this raises the question of how economic hardship affects illicit drug users' decisions to enter drug treatment.

Methods: We test the hypothesis that an improvement in the employment prospects, as measured by a decline in unemployment, strengthens the intrinsic motivation of an unemployed drug user to enter treatment. Our hypothesis is that the "payoff" of entering treatment increases when the unemployed drug user has a greater probability of finding a job.

[The radionuclide diagnosis of vasorenal hypertension using an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor].

Conventional routine renography and dynamic renoscintigraphy fail to yield sufficient diagnostic criteria in vasorenal hypertension, being associated with 21.5% false negative and 33.3% false positive results.

[Primary tumors of the kidney pelvis].

Of 507 patients with renal tumours 36 (7.1%) presented with primary epithelial neoplasms of the renal pelvis. Histological investigation revealed benign papillomas in 3 (8.