Oil Development and Intimate Partner Violence: Implementation of Section 8 Housing Policies in the Bakken Region of North Dakota and Montana.

One of the challenges survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) often face is securing safe and affordable housing. Many survivors qualify for public housing programs such as the Section 8 Project-Based Rental Assistance (PBRA) program and tenant-based Housing Choice Voucher Program (HCVP). These programs can be vital for survivors fleeing abuse and trying to rebuild their lives.

Iron homeostasis, hepatocellular injury, and fibrogenesis in hemochromatosis: the role of inflammation in a noninflammatory liver disease.

Iron is a crucially important element in normal cellular function and thus the regulation of iron homeostasis is tightly controlled. When this regulation is disrupted, for instance in hereditary hemochromatosis, abnormal intestinal absorption of iron leads to cellular toxicity, tissue injury, and organ fibrosis via the deposition of this iron in parenchymal cells of a number of different organs such as the heart, pancreas, and liver. Iron-generated oxyradicals contribute to the peroxidation of lipid membranes leading to organelle fragility and cellular toxicity.