Deciphering the therapeutical potentials of rosmarinic acid.

Lemon balm is herbal tea used for soothing stomach cramps, indigestion, and nausea. Rosmarinic acid (RA) is one of its chemical constituents known for its therapeutic potentials against cancer, inflammatory and neuronal diseases such as the treatment of neurofibromatosis or prevention from Alzheimer's diseases (AD). Despite efforts, recovery and purification of RA in high yields has not been entirely successful.

Enhancing Adoptive Parenting: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis.

Background:   Children adopted from care often exhibit behavioural difficulties. There is however limited cost-effectiveness evidence regarding different interventions to address this. This paper reports a cost-effectiveness analysis of parenting programmes for these children.

Enhancing adoptive parenting: a randomized controlled trial.

The aim was to conduct a pragmatic randomized controlled trial (RCT) to evaluate two parenting programmes designed for adopters of children late placed from care. Adoptive parents, with children between 3 and 8 years who were screened to have serious behavioural problems early in the placement, participated in home-based, manualized, parenting programmes delivered by trained and supervised family social workers. The adopters who agreed to join the study were randomly allocated to one of two parenting interventions or to a "services as usual" group.

Enhancing Adoptive Parenting: Devising Promising Interventions.

After describing the common problems of children placed for adoption from local authority care and the views and concerns of adopters as recipients of services, the article describes two contrasting interventions designed to enhance new adopters' parenting skills and understanding. Aspects covered are the empirical and theoretical justifications for the interventions, the process of manualisation and the plan to evaluate the effectiveness of the interventions in a randomised controlled trial.