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Are Conscientious Refusal and Conscientious Provision Mutually Exclusive? A Critique of Kelusa and Giubilini's Argument

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article challenges the claim that conscientious refusal and conscientious provision in healthcare are mutually exclusive and thus asymmetrical. While US law protects healthcare providers who refuse to perform medical services on moral or religious grounds, it offers no equivalent protections to those who feel morally compelled to provide ...
Tzofit Ofengenden
wiley   +1 more source

Concealed coexistence: Reproductive choice and coercion in Timor‐Leste

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Choice is a central concept in reproductive rights. However, a discourse of choice in reproductive health can also mask precisely the act it aims to protect against: coercion. Whilst choice has been explored extensively in studies of reproductive rights and justice, understandings of coercion are fragmented and under‐theorized.
Laura Burke
wiley   +1 more source

Barriers and Facilitators to Cognitive Participation in Peer Support for Complementary Feeding in LMICs: A Theory‐Informed Systematic Review

open access: yesMaternal &Child Nutrition, Volume 22, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Suboptimal complementary feeding practices remain a significant challenge in LMICs. Peer support shows promise in improving these practices; however, their long‐term success hinges on sustained engagement and integration into existing support systems, aspects that remain poorly understood.
Asnake Ararsa Irenso   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Role of Acid‐Sensing Ion Channels 1a in the Regulation of Obesity and the Gut Microbiota

open access: yesObesity, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 372-381, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Objective Acid‐sensing ion channels are proton‐activated ion channels predominantly found in the nervous system. They are well known to affect metabolic and neurological health, yet their role in obesity and gut physiology remains unclear. This study investigates how systemic deletion of Asic1a influences obesity, metabolic, and gut‐based ...
Jane Shearer   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Knowledge, attitude and practice regarding vasectomy among married men in a rural area

open access: yesMRIMS Journal of Health Sciences, 2015
Vasectomy is one of the safest and most effective family planning methods and is one of the few contraceptive options available for men. Vasectomy is one of the least used contraceptive methods in the developing world including India.
M Vijay Kumar, M L Surya Prabha
doaj   +1 more source

Diagnostic and Prognostic Value of cfDNA Concentration and Fragmentation in Prostate Cancer

open access: yesThe Prostate, Volume 86, Issue 3, Page 338-348, February 15, 2026.
ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the value of circulating free DNA (cfDNA) in prostate cancer (PCa) by cfDNA assay and analysis of plasma and urinary cfDNA fragmentation to determine the usefulness of this parameter for risk staging and tumor progression monitoring.
Marta Victoria Lorenzo‐Sánchez   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Complications, Failure Rate, and Satisfaction of No-scalpel Vasectomy in Isfahan Health Centers

open access: yesمجله دانشکده پزشکی اصفهان, 2011
Background: Nowadays, rapid increasing in the world population is the most essential impediment of socioeconomic development in the country that shows the importance of attention to reproductive controlling and family planning.
Leila Manzouri   +5 more
doaj  

Married Men and Vasectomy: A Focused Group Study in an Urban Community in Ghana

open access: yesSAGE Open Nursing, 2018
An effective method of birth control in men yet least accepted and patronized is vasectomy. Vasectomy provides health benefits to the user, his direct family, and the entire population as it helps to control population growth.
Stella Appiah PhD, MPhil, RN   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Development, Live Birth and Fertility in Mouse Oocytes Penetrated by Spermatids Exposed to the HDAC Inhibitor Scriptaid

open access: yesReproductive Medicine and Biology, Volume 25, Issue 1, January/December 2026.
ABSTRACT Purpose In mouse embryos derived from round spermatid injection (ROSI), low developmental potential due to abnormal histone modification is improved by histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors. However, some studies suggest that the use of such inhibitors leads to the birth of hypomorphic offspring.
Seiji Watanabe   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

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