COVID-19 and Religious Ethics.

The editors of the solicited short essays on the COVID-19 pandemic from a group of scholars of religious ethics that reflected on how the field might help them make sense of the complex religious, cultural, ethical, and political implications of the pandemic, and on how the pandemic might shape the future of religious ethics.

[Knowledge management in rehabilitation--proposal for a systematic development of clinical practice guidelines].

In the past ten years, the German pension scheme has launched several initiatives that can be regarded as milestones on the way to a scientifically founded rehabilitation system. These initiatives were: the Rehab Commission (1989 - 1991), the Quality Assurance Programme (since 1994), and the German Research Funding Programme "Rehabilitation Sciences" (in cooperation with the Federal Ministry for Education and Research, since 1996). As a next step on this way, we propose an initiative aiming at a systematic development and implementation of clinical practice guidelines for the main diagnostic groups in rehabilitation.

[Freiburg/Bad Säckingen Scientific Rehabilitation Research Group].

The Freiburg/Bad Säckingen Rehabilitation Research Network aims on problem solutions in rehabilitation in Germany. The core concept of the Research Group is "goal orientation in diagnosis, therapy and evaluation". This concept refers to both individual goals of patients and structural measures.

Controlled trial of dexverapamil, a modulator of multidrug resistance, in lymphomas refractory to EPOCH chemotherapy.

Purpose: Overexpression of the multidrug resistance gene (mdr-1) is present in up to 60% of relapsed lymphomas. To study its role in lymphomas, we conducted a controlled trial of dexverapamil, an inhibitor of the mdr-1 gene product, P-glycoprotein (Pgp), in lymphomas refractory to etoposide, prednisone, vincristine, cyclophosphamide, and doxorubicin (EPOCH) chemotherapy.

Patients And Methods: Eligible patients had recurrent Hodgkin's (HD) or non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHL) and measurable disease.