Taking Human Dignity, Poverty and Empowerment of Individuals More Seriously: Rejoinder to Alston

Taking National Courts More Seriously ?

Opinion 1/09 on the draft agreement for a unified patent litigation system reveals a degree of scepticism and distrust on part of the ECJ when it comes to the European Union’s international co-operation, especially its participation in international frameworks for dispute settlement. The Opinion not only made it far more complicated to achieve the aim of a unified patent litigation system in Eu...

Taking the Right to Appeal (More or Less) Seriously

Taking tissue seriously means taking communities seriously

BACKGROUND Health research is increasingly being conducted on a global scale, particularly in the developing world to address leading causes of morbidity and mortality. While research interest has increased, building scientific capacity in the developing world has not kept pace. This often leads to the export of human tissue (defined broadly) from the developing to the developed world for analy...

Life Expectancy Changes for Each Subway Station: Taking Social Determinants of Health Seriously More Than Ever

Life Expectancy Changes for Each Subway Station: Taking Social Determinants of Health Seriously More Than Ever Reza Esmaeili 1* 1Assistance Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Social Determinants of Health Research Center, School of Medicine, Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, Gonabad, Iran Abstract Nowadays, health inequalities are emerging at short geographic distances, even ...

Debate Taking tissue seriously means taking communities seriously

Background: Health research is increasingly being conducted on a global scale, particularly in the developing world to address leading causes of morbidity and mortality. While research interest has increased, building scientific capacity in the developing world has not kept pace. This often leads to the export of human tissue (defined broadly) from the developing to the developed world for anal...