Special issue on South Asia: Focus will be an eye opener

Special Issue: Monitoring Health Determinants with an Equity Focus

Albert Einstein said that ‘all of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.’ In the era of the Sustainable Development Agenda, it is imperative that health tools, services and evidence-based policies address the everyday challenges of sustainability and health. In everyday life, all people, and the more disadvantaged in particular, experience the interconnection between he...

An eye-opener for RNAi therapeutics.

The discovery of the mechanism of RNA interference (RNAi) for knockdown of gene expression has spurred a variety of therapeutic applications. An asset of using small interfering RNA (siRNA) as therapeutics is their exquisite sequence-specific mechanism of action. It seems possible that the first RNAi therapy that could reach patients would aim at a debilitating eye disease called age-related ma...

Developmental focus on disorders of sex development: special issue overview.

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Inequities in eye care in South Asia

article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License. Inequities are often discovered and discussed around prevalence studies, which produces data relating to various types of inequities. It sits in the space of periodic assessment and continues to remain predominantly in the knowledge rather than action realm. Therefore there is a need for a paradigm shift in how w...