Opportunities and challenges of self-binding directives: an interview study with mental health service users and professionals in the Netherlands

Abstract Background Self-binding directives (SBDs) are psychiatric advance directives that include the possibility for service users to consent in advance to compulsory care in future mental health crises.Legal provisions for SBDs exist in the Netherlands since 2008 and were updated in 2020.While ethicists and legal scholars have identified several

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Use of bone marrow derived stem cells in a fracture non-union

This is an attempt of using in vitro cultured mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) from bone marrow RESPRIT in joining of a fracture non-union.Bone marrow cells were obtained and differentially centrifuged for MSCs that were grown in vitro in mesenchymal stem cell basal medium aseptically, for 10 d.The cell mass was injected around the fracture non-union.

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