Orphan anxiety

The Effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Group Therapy in the Social Anxiety of Adolescent Orphan Girls

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment group therapy in the social anxiety of adolescent orphan girls.  Methods: The research method was semi-experimental with a pretest-posttest design and unequal control. The statistical population of the study was all ten to twenty-year-old orphan and foster adolescent girls in the two center...

Orphan receptors.

Suppressor gene loci involved in the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) have not been fully identified. The aim of this study was to look for consistent allele loss, or loss of heterozygosity (LOH), in HCC which might represent such gene loci. We have prepared DNA from tumour and non-tumour material from 16 patients with HCC (nine with and seven without liver cirrhosis). Tumour DNA w...

Self-Esteem and Depression among Orphan and Non-Orphan Children

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Orphan drugs revisited.

Orphan kidney diseases.

Rare kidney diseases are a unique subset of renal disorders that are often termed 'orphan' as a result of a multitude of reasons: the small number of patients with the consequent lack of well-defined natural history and course of many of these diseases, limited awareness among the medical community, and finally the significant cost of developing novel therapeutics which makes many of these dise...