Publications by authors named "E Breuer"
Development and validation of a supported housing programme for homeless women with severe mental illness.
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol
December 2024
Background: The bidirectional phenomenon of homelessness and Mental Illness (MI) creates a vicious circle that is hard to escape. In India, Homeless Women with Severe Mental Illness (HWSMI) often rely on institutional care due to the absence of family or community alternatives, which distances them from socio-economic, cultural, political resources and the right to live with dignity. Hence, there is a need to develop a model that will help reintegrate HWSMI into the community.
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- * Through a comparative case study involving workshops with local authority participants, the research aims to develop a Theory-of-Change that outlines how these guidelines can be effectively implemented for better service delivery.
- * Participants emphasized a co-creation model led by skilled practitioners, highlighting the importance of building trust and addressing barriers like staffing shortages to ensure guidelines are consistently followed and valued in practice.
Multimodal therapy for peritoneal metastasis (PM) including cytoreductive surgery (CRS) and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) provides long-term survival in highly selected colorectal cancer patients. Mechanisms behind HIPEC are unknown and may include induction of adaptive immunity. We therefore analyzed human PM samples and explored the impact of HIPEC in experimental models.
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- Scientists are studying how to tell if a donated liver is healthy enough to use for transplant by looking at special markers during a process called HOPE.
- They collected samples from livers in 10 different centers across 7 countries and found that the levels of a marker called FMN can help predict if the liver will work well after being transplanted.
- The study showed that FMN is better at predicting liver problems compared to older methods, making it a promising tool for doctors to decide which livers are suitable for transplant.
Introduction: Chronic kidney disease is common, with a projected increase to 5.4 million people in need of kidney replacement therapy by 2030. As many as 61.
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