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  • Ceasefire Projection

    Ceasefire Projection

    This visual is based on statistical projections by researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health. Their projections powerfully illustrate how many Palestinian lives are at stake in the next six months. They looked at four areas: traumatic injuries, non-communicable diseases, infectious diseases (including pandemics), […]

  • The Three M’s: Mutual Aid, Magnanimity and Meals on Wheels

    The Three M’s: Mutual Aid, Magnanimity and Meals on Wheels

    While August 19 was International Humanitarian Day, just a short stone’s throw from the Waldport Post Office is a hub of volunteers and one director feeding the soul of the needy on a weekly basis. For manager Nicole Person, her 10 years of service with Meals on Wheels in Waldport have been a lesson in […]

  • Big Pharma and Direct-to-Consumer Advertising

    Since 1997, the U.S. is one of only two countries (the other being New Zealand) that allows direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising for health products like medications and procedures. Such DTC advertising in the U.S. increased from $2.1 billion in 1997 to $9.6 billion in 2016 — and continues to rise. And you wonder why two-thirds of […]

  • 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’ […]

  • The True Test of a Civilisation Is the Absence of Anxiety About Health

    The True Test of a Civilisation Is the Absence of Anxiety About Health

    Children play in the Rostock housing development, which, like all housing developments in the DDR, was required to include large open spaces for children. Credit: Jürgen Sindermann,Wikimedia Commons / German Federal Archive. A few years ago, a minor medical problem took me to the Hospital Alemán-Nicaragüense in Nicaragua’s capital, Managua. While I was being treated, I […]

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