Rehabilitation redux? Future probation reforms

How many neutrophils are enough (redux, redux)?

Many chemotherapeutic regimens produce neutropenia, which predisposes to microbial infection. However, not all neutropenic individuals develop infections, so the ability to predict this outcome would be a powerful clinical tool. In this issue of the JCI, Malka et al. describe a dynamic system model of neutrophil bactericidal activity that confirms and extends the concept of critical neutrophil ...

Federal Probation

Federal Probation (ISSN 0014-9128) is dedicated to informing its readers about current thought, research, and practice in corrections and criminal justice. The journal welcomes the contributions of persons who work with or study juvenile and adult offenders and invites authors to submit articles describing experience or significant findings regarding the prevention and control of delinquency an...

Tele-rehabilitation: present and future.

SUMMARY During the last decade we assisted to relevant progress in rehabilitation studies and in technological development. From the combination of these issues rises the tele-rehabilitation--a subfield of telemedicine consisting of a system to control rehabilitation "at distance"--as an actual possibility of application and a promising development in the future. The present paper offers a shor...

The future of rehabilitation research.

Fifteen years ago I sat down with Cynthia Smith, who was then chief of occupational therapy in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, We acknowledged our limitations and said that we wanted to describe how our patients are doing, not what they are doing, After some argument, we decided that we had to start collecting data to help us address the issue, Our discussions focused on performance,...

Probation and Re-Education