PROTEIN STOPS HIV INFECTION IN ITS TRACKS!
Researchers in the Netherlands have identified a protein that might help
explain why promising microbicide gels are yet to prove effective against
HIV transmission.
Teunis Geijtenbeek and colleagues at VU University (Vrije Universiteit) in Amsterdam discovered that a protein that was thought to increase HIV transmission actually prevents transmission...
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Links... http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2007/March/05030703.asp
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Saturday, December 29, 2007
NOBEL LAUREATES FOR GENITAL INTEGRITY.
Nobel Laureates for Genital Integrity.
The worldwide human rights movement for bodily
integrity has support
from some of the world’s finest scientists, among them
Nobel laureates in Physiology and Medicine Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the
molecular structure of the DNA molecule, and George Wald, discoverer of vitamin
'A'
in the retina of the eye and how it functions with light there to form the
molecular and energetic basis of vision.
In 1995, Crick endorsed “The Ashley Montagu
Resolution To End The Genital Mutilation Of Children Worldwide – A Petition To
The World Court, the Hague”, as have many others concerned for children’s legal
and human rights, health, and lives.
This petition and its predecessor, the
“Universal Declaration on Circumcision, Excision, and Incision”, were written by
developmental neuropsychologist James Prescott, Ph.D., and adopted by the 1st
and 4th International Symposia on Circumcision, in 1989 and 1996.
Now many new endorsers are joining Francis
Crick, Marilyn Milos, Ashley Montagu, James Prescott, Jonas Salk, Benjamin
Spock, George Wald and many others supporting genital integrity for all human
children by endorsing this declaration and petition at the web site; MontaguNOCIRCpetition.
Wald (1906 - 1997) – Child of immigrant New
York Jewish parents, beloved Harvard biology professor, and an important
U.S. social activist for peace and
justice – worked for many important social causes, among them human genital
integrity, both male and female.
His widow, Ruth Hubbard, also a former Harvard
biology professor,
now supports the Intersex Society of North America, working
for genital
self-determination for the intersexed.
In 1975 George Wald wrote and offered for
publication in The New Yorker
a so-far unpublished essay called "Circumcision"
– reviewed here in some detail – becoming the first Nobel laureate known to
the author to have worked to protect the human right to genital integrity.
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MEDICAL ANALYSIS OF CIRCUMCISION.
MEDICAL ANALYSIS OF CIRCUMCISION.
Positions of major health organizations.
Numerous medical studies have examined the effects of circumcision with mixed opinions regarding the benefits and risks of the procedure.
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Friday, December 28, 2007
COMPLICATIONS OF CIRCUMCISION.
COMPLICATIONS OF CIRCUMCISION.
Immediate complications of this surgical operation include:
hemorrhage, sometimes to the point of death or requiring a transfusion,
hemorrhage, sometimes to the point of death or requiring a transfusion,
minor infections, life-threatening infections such as:-
sepsis, meningitis, gangrene, staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome, erysipelas, and scrotal abscess.
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BIOETHICS OF THE CIRCUMCISION OF MALE CHILDREN.
The Bioethics of the Circumcision of Male Children.
International human rights law has profoundly transformed medical ethics.
This page, therefore, indexes human rights instruments in addition to
medical ethics documents.
The Physician's Oath of the World Medical Association requires doctors
to use their medical knowledge in compliance with "the laws of humanity."
The codes of medical ethics of Australia, Canada, Norway, and the United States all require doctors to respect the 'human rights of patients'.
The United Kingdom makes respect for the human rights of patients a legal requirement by the Human Rights Act 1998.
Children enjoy certain human rights (including the right to special protection) under general human rights instruments.
They also enjoy additional protections under special instruments related to childhood.
See 'Attorneys for the Rights of the Child' for a table of human rights that are violated by circumcision of male children.
The UN Commission on the former Yugoslavia defines circumcision as sexual assault and a human rights violation.
In Article 24.3 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child the phrase, "traditional procedures prejudicial to the health of children," refers to
the practice of circumcision.
The circumcision of male children, therefore, violates numerous provisions of various international human rights instruments, and must be considered unethical medical practice.
Doctors Opposing Circumcision has released a detailed report on human
rights and the circumcision of children.
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