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Rare Bleeding Disorders and Bleeding Disorder of Unknown Cause: Current Understanding and Recent Developments

Haemophilia, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rare bleeding disorders (RBDs) represent a diverse group of inherited conditions involving coagulation factors or platelets. These conditions, such as Glanzmann thrombasthenia (GT) or severe coagulation factor deficiencies, are uncommon. In contrast, bleeding disorder of unknown cause (BDUC) is a diagnosis of exclusion without an identifiable ...
Alessandro Casini, Robert Klamroth, Bauke Haisma, Dino Mehic, Saskia E. M. Schols   +4 more
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Male genital lichen sclerosus

Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, EarlyView.
Male genital lichen sclerosus is driven by chronic, occluded exposure of susceptible genital epithelium to urine, rather than infection or autoimmunity. This review synthesizes clinical, anatomical and molecular evidence showing how microincontinence and occlusion initiate inflammation, fibrosis and carcinogenesis, and explains the curative effect of ...
Georgios Kravvas, Rory Barry, Richard E. Watchorn, Christopher B. Bunker   +3 more
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Recurrent UTIs in Children With CAKUT

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Congenital abnormalities of the kidney and urinary tract (CAKUT) encompass diverse diagnoses that commonly present as urinary tract dilatation and are the leading cause of kidney failure in children. Antenatal hydronephrosis occurs in ~1% of pregnancies; most resolve spontaneously, but conditions such as posterior urethral valves (PUV ...
Lucielle Standish, Holly Campbell, Shehryar Saharan, Lilian M. Johnstone, Neil Price, Chris Kimber, Kiarash Taghavi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Knowledge about male circumcision and perception of risk for HIV among youth in Harare, Zimbabwe

Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine, 2019
Background: Male circumcision will require high uptake among previously non-circumcising countries to realise the impact of circumcising in preventing HIV.
Kudzaishe Mangombe, Ishmael Kalule-Sabiti   +1 more
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Missing foreskin in the Septuagint : circumcision related metaphors lost in translation

, 2023
This article analyses circumcision language in the Septuagint and identifies a clear pattern in the Greek translation of the Hebrew term 'foreskin'.
Neutel, Karin,
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Religio‐Racial Lines, Intimate Ties: Christian–Muslim Couples, Birth Rituals, and the Bounds of Belonging

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Building on scholarship that conceptualizes race and religion as co‐constitutive forces within a “race‐religion constellation,” this article explores how this entanglement—profoundly infused and structured by secularity—is lived and negotiated in everyday life.
Deniz Aktaş
wiley   +1 more source

Clinical outcomes of circumcisions and prevalence of complications of male circumcisions: A five-year retrospective analysis at a teaching hospital in Ghana.

PLOS Global Public Health
Male circumcision is increasing in popularity due to its medical benefits, including reducing HIV prevalence. It is commonly performed by both health and non-health professionals, with most circumcisions occurring during the neonatal period.
Sylvester Appiah Boakye, Frank Obeng
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Why do male patients request circumcisions?

South African Family Practice, 2004
Background: Circumcision has been performed for centuries. The popularity of the procedure waxed and waned during the ages. In South Africa, cultural circumcision is often regarded as the only way to attain full adulthood, and consequently many patients ...
A. Engelbrecht, S. Smith
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Beyond the Cut: Generative Refusal and the Reimagining of Jewish Affiliation in Contemporary Israel

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Jewish‐Israeli society, circumcision (brit milah) carries far‐reaching significance, symbolizing both the covenant between god and the Jewish people and serving as a key marker of communal affiliation and cultural continuity. Drawing on in‐depth interviews with Jewish‐Israeli parents who have chosen not to circumcise their sons and using ...
Nina Rageth
wiley   +1 more source

The Judeo‐Islamic God

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses the concept of the Judeo‐Islamic God as a substantive and defensible alternative to the problematic concept of the “Judeo‐Christian God” in popular, political, and academic Western discourses. It argues that the transcendent monotheistic deity of Islam, Allāh, is a direct continuation of the composite deity of Rabbinic ...
Jeffry R. Halverson
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