Tag: Causes of death

  • No Screening for Black Men’s Prostate Cancer Epidemic 

    Would the below statements from the American Family Physician (11/2024) be true if, after 40 years of a prostate cancer epidemic, it was White men, not Black men who have been suffering and dying? “Black men: Compared with White men, Black men have a more than 60% higher incidence of prostate cancer, an earlier age at diagnosis, […]

  • Malnutrition and Mortality in Gaza, One Year Later. Who’s Counting the Dead?

    Malnutrition and Mortality in Gaza, One Year Later. Who’s Counting the Dead?

    It’s a tragic sign of the times when little introductory narrative is needed to set the near-apocalyptic scene that exists in Gaza today. The world watches from a distance as Israel’s onslaught continues and the civilian death toll escalates to unimaginable levels. Now, the nightmare that Palestinian survivors are currently enduring is about to take […]

  • The official death toll in Gaza is a lie: The casualty numbers are far, far higher

    The official death toll in Gaza is a lie: The casualty numbers are far, far higher

    The death toll in Gaza is way too low by every imaginable metric. We need to be stressing this – all the more so when Israel’s apologists are vigorously engaged in a disinformation campaign to suggest that the figures are inflated. On 6 May, 7 months into Israel’s slaughter, there were reported to be 34,735 […]

  • Math proves that Israel’s stated goals are an epic lie

    Math proves that Israel’s stated goals are an epic lie

    Twelve buildings are destroyed every hour in Gaza. (Hadi Daoud APA images) When you’re in Gaza and see the destruction firsthand, the clearest conclusion is that Israel’s stated goals are an epic lie, on a par with “a people without a land for a land without a people,” packaged and sold to the world. The […]

  • Don Quixote Challenges the Gun Industry

    Don Quixote Challenges the Gun Industry

    When the chaos subsided after the Columbine school tragedy in 1999 and investigators were given opportunity to review law enforcement’s conduct in a calm and clear-headed manner, it was determined that police tactics had been inappropriate. Had police rushed in more quickly towards the sound of gunfire, it’s likely that some of the 12 students (and one teacher) killed that […]

  • Judicial Murder in Alabama

    During the evening of January 25, Kenneth Eugene Smith, having failed to convince the US Supreme Court to delay his execution, became yet another victim of judicial, state-sanctioned murder.  A previous, failed effort, using lethal injection, had been made in 2022.  On this occasion, it was the state of Alabama which sought to bloody (or […]

  • How Consumer Drug Advertising Turned the Public into Pill Poppers

    How Consumer Drug Advertising Turned the Public into Pill Poppers

    One night in 1997, as Americans were parked on the couch in front of an episode of Touched by an Angel, they were touched by something else unexpected: an ad for a prescription allergy pill called Claritin®, promoted directly to the consumer! Prescription drugs had never been sold directly to the public before, because, without […]

  • Four Wars Old

    Four Wars Old

    At least 90 Palestinian children have been killed by Israel’s assault on Gaza so far. This visual tella the story of Palestinian children in Gaza, who have experienced multiple assaults and multiple types of trauma since 2007, leading to a widespread mental health crisis among youth.

  • Corona Sirens

    Corona Sirens

    If this is going on at Surrey Memorial Hospital  in British Columbia Canada where else is it going on? “These patients take up beds and nursing support that would normally be used to treat incoming emergencies. This bed-block forces us to routinely treat strokes, heart attacks, traumas, miscarriages and palliative patients in the hallway.” — “Visitor ‘overwhelmed’ […]

  • Finding Reconnection through the Power of Human Touch

    The famous “rescuing hug” I was recently reminded of the incredible story of the “rescuing hug” photo (above). To sum up the basics: Kyrie and Brielle Jackson were born on October 17, 1995 — 12 weeks ahead of their due date. Kyrie weighed only 2 pounds, 3 ounces. Brielle was even smaller and far more […]

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