The incidence of kidney failure is nearly 3 times higher in Black relative to White Americans.1Saran R. Robinson B. Abbott K.C. et al.US Renal Data System 2018 Annual Report: epidemiology disease the United States.Am J Kidney Dis. 2019; 73 (3)(suppl 1):A7-A8Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (448) Google Scholar A significant body biomedical literature links this racial inequity polymorphic v...

Despite a history of championing HIV/AIDS as a human rights issue, and a rhetorical commitment to health as a human right, European states and institutions have shifted from a rights-based response to a risk management approach to HIV/AIDS since the economic recession of 2008. An interdisciplinary perspective is applied to analyze health policy changes at the national, regional, and global leve...

The goal of the present study was to elucidate the relationship between cannabinoid and opioid systems in drug dependence. The CB1 cannabinoid receptor antagonist SR 141716A precipitated both paw tremors and head shakes in four different mouse strains that were treated repeatedly with -tetrahydrocannabinol ( -THC). SR 141716A-precipitated -THC withdrawal was ameliorated in -opioid receptor knoc...

In 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) initiated a process for validation of the elimination of mother-to-child transmission (EMTCT) of HIV and syphilis by countries. For the first time in such a process for the validation of disease elimination, WHO introduced norms and approaches that are grounded in human rights, gender equality, and community engagement. This human rights-based valida...

How abortion is dealt with in law and policy is shaped through the multiple political and societal discourses on the issue within a particular society. Debate on abortion is constantly in flux, with progressive and regressive movements witnessed globally. This paper examines the translation of human rights norms into discourses on abortion in Northern Ireland, a region where abortion is highly ...

The racially disparate impact and individual collective costs of stop frisk, misdemeanor arrests, pretextual traffic stops have been well documented. Less widely noticed is the contrast between Supreme Court case law permitting these practices Court’s recent tendency to strictly regulate technologically enhanced searches that occur outside street policing setting that—coincidentally or not—happ...

A questionnaire study sheds light on the psychological component of kin selecting tendencies predicted by Hamilton’s (1964b) inclusive fitness theory of discriminatory altruistic behavior based on genetic similarity. Participants rated donations of assistance aiding survival and material wealth as more rational and ethical when these actions were performed for closer relatives. Participants als...

Drawing on participant observations and interventions while counseling 160 heroin addicts over a two-year period, the author explores the possibilities and limitations of using sociology to counter his clients' addictions to heroin and other drugs. Important historical changes have brought about new conflicting viewpoints within the methadone maintenance clinic, where acupuncture and Chinese he...

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