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The Natural Product Corramycin Acts as a DNA Gyrase Poison and Overcomes Fluoroquinolone Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Corramycin, a myxobacterial natural product antibiotic, exhibits potent bactericidal activity against multidrug‐resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The compound hijacks bacterial transporters such as BacA and OppABCD to enter the cell and inhibits DNA synthesis through a previously unrecognized mode of DNA gyrase poisoning, locking the enzyme in an ...
Franziska Fries, Jennifer Herrmann, Michael Dal Molin, Yaëlle Wormser, Timo Risch, Yunsheng Gao, Gareth Prosser, Francesca Gubellini, Ariel Mechaly, Joshua B. Wallach, Anthony Castro, Arka Banerjee, Sari Rasheed, Alexander Horn, Mathias Müsken, Michael Kurz, Lindsay Sonnenkalb, Viola Dreyer, Stefan Niemann, Sönke Andres, Dirk Schnappinger, Uli Kazmaier, Norbert Reiling, Rolf Müller, Jan Rybniker, Stéphanie Petrella   +25 more
wiley   +1 more source

Balancing Ethics, Education, and Compassion in Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

Turkish Journal of Internal Medicine
Objective: It is 2024, and the debate of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia remains highly complex and impactful. This discussion extends to the legal and ethical theories that affect these issues, but also profoundly impact real lives and ...
Kamaljot Kaur Ahuja, Srishty Agarwal, Ramsha Mahmood, Rohit Jain   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A New Way To Die

University of Ottawa Journal of Medicine, 2015
A review of the recent Supreme Court decision regarding assisted-suicide.
Laura Forrest
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Physician-Assisted Suicide in Psychiatry: Developments in the Netherlands

, 1998
Physician-assisted suicide can now be officially and legally carried out for psychiatric patients in The Netherlands who request it, provided that criteria are met.
Asmus, Frank P., Schoevers, Robert A., Van Tilburg, Willem   +2 more
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B/ordering and healthcare access for migrants with precarious status: The role of healthcare workers in counteracting restrictive policies

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract In Canada, precarious migration is largely invisibilized. Nonetheless, b/ordering greatly affects people's realities by limiting access to social rights. In Quebec, migrants with precarious status (MPS) do not have access to healthcare, although Quebec has a “universal” healthcare coverage.
Émilie Pigeon‐Gagné, Jill Hanley, Élise Bourgeois‐Guérin, Pénélope Boudreault   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social, cultural and experiential patterning of attitudes and behaviour towards assisted suicide in Switzerland: evidence from a national population-based study

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2020
Switzerland has the longest history of the legal practice of non-physician assisted suicide of any country. Assisted suicide is not very tightly regulated in Switzerland, and almost all assisted suicides are supported by a right-to-die organisation ...
Sarah Vilpert, Elio Bolliger, Carmen Borrat-Besson, Gian Domenico Borasio, Jürgen Maurer   +4 more
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Active Voluntary Euthanasia or Physician-Assisted Suicide?

, 1997
OBJECTIVE: To find out why Dutch general practitioners (GPs) and nursing home physicians (NHPs), and patients (according to their physician) opt for active voluntary euthanasia rather than for physician-assisted suicide, or vice-versa.
Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Bregje D., Muller, Martien T., Ribbe, Miel W., van der Wal, Gerrit, van Eijk, Jacques Th.M.   +4 more
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Diagnosing the system: Mental health, necropolitical uncare, and the abolition of migration detention

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the psychological effects of migration detention in the European Union's Closed Controlled Access Center (CCAC) on Samos through an ecological lens. It explores a double normalization of suffering: the brutalization of necropolitical migration governance and the simultaneous understanding of resulting distress as an ...
Julia Manek
wiley   +1 more source

Immigration detention centers as torturing environments: Ethical reckonings, radical refusals, and implications for a psychology of resistance

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines psychologists' ethical dilemmas in immigration detention centers. Using critical psychology, border, and detention scholarship, it highlights psychologists' historical complicity in state violence, from the U.S. Enhanced Interrogation Program to current border regimes.
Francesca Esposito, Federica de Cordova, Julia Manek, Sara Buckingham, Camilla Ponti, Francesco Tommasi, Bradley Olson   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Euthanasia: The conceptualization of the problem and important distinctions [PDF]

Filozofija i Društvo, 2013
The aim of this work is twofold. On the one hand, the intention is to provide analysis of the issue of euthanasia. On the other hand, this approach necessarily leads to a discussion toward the provision of an adequate definition of euthanasia ...
Đerić Milijana
doaj   +1 more source