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Cyclic nucleotide signaling as a drug target in retinitis pigmentosa

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Disruptions in cGMP and cAMP signaling can contribute to retinal dysfunction and photoreceptor loss in retinitis pigmentosa. This perspective examines the mechanisms and evaluates emerging evidence on targeting these pathways as a potential therapeutic strategy to slow or prevent retinal degeneration.
Katri Vainionpää   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hospitals, Health Care Professionals, and Aids: the Right to Know the Health Status of Professionals and Patients [PDF]

open access: yes, 1989
This article addresses why patients and health care professionals (HCPs) with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) should have autonomy and privacy rights to choose whether to consent to an HIV test and to disclose their serologic status.
Gostin, Larry
core   +2 more sources

Accounting for human rights : doxic health and safety practices - the accounting lessons from ICL [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper is concerned with a specific human right - the right to work in a safe environment. It sets out a case for developing a new form of account of health and safety in any organisational setting.
Cooper, C., Coulson, A.B., Taylor, P.
core   +2 more sources

Human papillomavirus (HPV) testing on self-collected specimens: perceptions among HIV positive women attending rural and urban clinics in South Africa

open access: yesThe Pan African Medical Journal, 2014
INTRODUCTION: Cervical cancer is the most common cancer among women in Sub-Saharan Africa. Cervical cancer is treatable if detected timeously, yet only 20% of South African women have ever been for a Pap smear in their lifetime due to limited access to ...
Kay Mahomed   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Searching for the Right to Health in the Sustainable Development Agenda; Comment on 'Rights Language in the Sustainable Development Agenda: Has Right to Health Discourse and Norms Shaped Health Goals?'

open access: yesInternational Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2016
The United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Agenda offers an opportunity to realise the right to health for all. The Agenda's "interlinked and integrated" Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide the prospect of focusing attention and mobilising ...
S. Hawkes, K. Buse
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Rewriting the dendritic cell code in cancer—from subset identity to immunotherapeutic design

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Dendritic cells (DCs) play central roles in cancer immunity but are often subverted by the tumor microenvironment. This review explores the diversity of DC subsets, their functional plasticity, and emerging therapeutic strategies to reprogram DCs for enhanced antitumor responses, including vaccines, in vivo targeting, and DC‐based immunotherapies ...
Estevão Carlos Silva Barcelos   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

From omics to AI—mapping the pathogenic pathways in type 2 diabetes

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Integrating multi‐omics data with AI‐based modelling (unsupervised and supervised machine learning) identify optimal patient clusters, informing AI‐driven accurate risk stratification. Digital twins simulate individual trajectories in real time, guiding precision medicine by matching patients to targeted therapies.
Siobhán O'Sullivan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reproductive Injustice: Racial and Gender Discrimination in U.S. Health Care [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
When it ratified the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), the United States committed to ensure the right to health care free from all forms of racial discrimination to all within its borders. Yet, as

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The Human Right to Water and Unconventional Energy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Access to water, in sufficient quantities and of sufficient quality is vital for human health. The United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (in General Comment 15, drafted 2002) argued that access to water was a condition for the ...
Auch, Walter E. Ted   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Qualitative application of the diffusion of innovation theory to maternity waiting homes in rural Zambia

open access: yesImplementation Science Communications
Background Understanding factors affecting adoption of an innovation is critical to its long-term success. Maternity waiting homes (MWHs) increase access to facility-based delivery in low-resourced settings; yet, quality issues deter utilization of this ...
Jeanette L. Kaiser   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

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