Organising the self-employed: combining community unionism, coworking and cooperativism across contexts.

The growing insecurity, flexibilisation and fragmentation of labour markets goes hand-in-hand with the decrease of social protection levels and collective representation for workers in non-standard employment relationships, such as the hybrid category of 'solo self-employed workers'. In response, on the one hand, trade unions attempt to approach and organise this heterogenous category of workers. On the other, new freelancer organisations are emerging to improve worker rights and safety, and overcome their social and professional isolation.

Mental and behavioral health environments: critical considerations for facility design.

Objectives: The purpose of the study was to identify features in the physical environment that are believed to positively impact staff and patients in psychiatric environments and use these features as the foundation for future research regarding the design of mental and behavioral health facilities.

Methods: Pursuant to a broad literature review that produced an interview script, researchers conducted 19 interviews of psychiatric staff, facility administrators and architects. Interview data were analyzed using the highly structured qualitative data analysis process authored by Lincoln and Guba (1985).

Neurotrophin receptors in the somatosensory cortex of the mature rat: co-localization of p75, trk, isoforms and c-neu.

Trk immunoreactivity is expressed by a discrete population of cortical neurons, primarily those with cell bodies in layer Vb and dendrites in supragranular cortex. We tested the hypothesis that neurons co-express multiple isoforms of trk receptors. The distribution of neurons expressing specific high affinity neurotrophin receptors was determined immunohistochemically.

Comrades in adversity: the group approach.

Women suffering postnatal depression frequently report the additional stress of feeling they are alone in their distress. Access to a regular support group to discuss their problems with peers can be valuable. Fawnia Pitts describes one such health visitor-led group, evaluation of which suggests it is both effective and cost-efficient in helping women through postnatal depression.

Improvement of four patients with HIV-1 related symptoms after hyperimmunization with killed poliomyelitis (Salk) vaccine.

Four HIV-1 positive patients with characteristic symptoms of this infection experienced amelioration or resolution of symptoms after 2 months of hyperimmunization with inactivated (Salk) poliomyelitis vaccine. The patient who was initially the most symptomatic exhibited a marked improvement in T4/T8 ratio at the sixth month of continued hyperimmunization treatment. With two patients reported previously, six consecutive patients with lymphotropic retrovirus disease have benefited from hyperimmunization with inactivated polio vaccine.

Clinical improvement of two patients with T lymphotropic retrovirus diseases after polio vaccine hyperimmunization.

Patients with acute leukemia have an impaired ability to produce antibodies to poliovirus in response to inoculation with inactivated vaccine. Reimmunization will, however, produce a relative increase in antibodies equivalent to that of healthy subjects. A child with acute lymphocytic leukemia was hyperimmunized with Salk polio vaccine following a relapse and has had no further relapse nor sequelae for 20 years.

Dexamethasone suppression in depressed elderly outpatients.

The dexamethasone suppression test (DST) was performed as part of the preliminary workup in 85 previously untreated outpatients with major affective disorder, unipolar depressive type, who were over age 60. All patients were given a systematic structured interview (NIMH-DIS), and all had scores over 20 on the 21-item Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D). Only 12 patients (14%) had positive DSTs; more of the non-melancholic (6 of 25; 24%) than melancholic (6 of 60; 10%) patients failed to suppress serum cortisol following standard dexamethasone challenge (p less than .

PCP in amniotic fluid and breast milk: case report.

The presence of phencyclidine (PCP) in breast milk and amniotic fluid of a young drug abuser is described. Implications drawn from these data include the possible use of amniocentesis in women with well-documented histories of drug abuse who have low levels of PCP in urine, and the restriction of breast feeding in women who have abused PCP.

Phencyclidine in umbilical cord blood: preliminary data.

The epidemic abuse of phencyclidine (PCP) has become a major psychiatric issue within the past decade. With the assistance of highly sensitive capillary gas chromatographic-nitrogen detector measurements, PCP's true pervasiveness is only now being appreciated. To further quantitate the severity of the problem, the authors analyzed samples of umbilical cord blood from 200 patients on the obstetrics service of a major university medical center.