Community mental health care is a practice setting conducive to the emergence of special situations since the intervention takes place in the client's living environment, a context fraught with multiple and often unpredictable events and triggers. In addition, the healthcare workers are often alone in making decisions. This can lead to a persistent feeling of discomfort when the situation can be seen from several different angles and the healthcare workers find it difficult to make the right decision or are uncomfortable with the consequences of a decision they must make.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Early palliative care (EPC) leads to an improvement in quality of life and an unexpected survival benefit compared with oncological care for patients with metastatic lung cancer. The Early Palliative Integrated Care (EPIC) is aimed at examining whether EPC can improve overall survival in patients with metastatic upper gastrointestinal cancer.
Methods: We performed a multicentre, open-label, randomised phase-3 trial.
A growing number of studies show that innate immune cells can undergo functional reprogramming, facilitating a faster and enhanced response to heterologous secondary stimuli. This concept has been termed "trained immunity." We outline here a protocol to recapitulate this using adherent monocytes from consecutive isolation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: The principal objective of our study was to document the short-term impact of the legalization of recreational cannabis on active cannabis use, cannabis use disorder, and various psychotic disorders.
Methods: We carried out a retrospective observational study of patients who were at least 12 years old and who had visited a psychiatrist in the emergency unit of the (CHUS). We included all the consultations of this type over a 5-month period, immediately following the legalization of recreational cannabis in Canada.
The search for active microorganisms for the biotransformation of guttiferone A (1) and C (6) has been successfully undertaken from a collection of endophytic fungi of Symphonia globulifera. Of the twenty-five isolates obtained from the leaves, three are active and have been identified as Bipolaris cactivora. The products obtained are the result of xanthone cyclisation with the formation of two regioisomers among four possible and corresponding to 1,16-oxy-guttiferone and 3,16-oxy-guttiferone.
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