Adaptation to chronic dialysis: a two-way street.

While dialysis is a medical advance that enables people to live who would otherwise die, it is often experienced as an ordeal by those who must live with it. Patients and staff experience difficulties in their adaption to chronic dialysis. A program that accepts all patients, regardless of motivation and stability, carries with it the responsibility of offering care in a way the patient can tolerate and of providing a regimen within the context of his personality structure and social adaptation.

[Results and conclusions from our work on breeding awnless winter barley].

A breeding program was started in Gülzow to get awnless winter barley of high yield. Though only awnless spring barley was used as starting material satisfactory winter hardiness was obtained by backcrossing several times with awned varieties of high resistance to cold. To obtain sufficient straw stiffness and a good grain quality is much more difficult.