Entries from Byline Portal tagged with 'Health'
Where Have All The Doctors Gone?
by Maryam Hasan, Voice of Syria, Syria - Like sardines packed into a can, men, women and children share space in a tiny emergency ward. Some cry, and a few others bear the pain quietly, but their facial expressions say...
Ignorance That Kills
by Inna Hudaya, Inside Indonesia, Australia - Many Indonesian women face great difficulties in accessing safe terminations of unwanted pregnancies....
The Implications of Embryo Screening
by Kerstin Kullmann, Der Spiegel, Germany - A controversial procedure that lets would-be parents test embryos for certain genetic defects will soon be allowed in special cases in Germany. What does this mean for society?...
World Cancer Day Aims to Dispel Stereotypes
by Liz Szabo, USA Today, USA - Cancer is not just a health issue, advocates say....
When Dark Skin Becomes 'Fashionable'
by Celeste Liddle, Rantings of an Aboriginal Feminist, Australia - Tanning is bizarre. Fake tanning is bizarre. Forking over your hard-earned to be hit with a spray gun is bizarre. And it all makes zero sense to me at all...
The Truth about Pakistan’s Polio Campaign Tragedy
by Leela Jacinto, France 24, France - Taliban, CIA...who else can we blame for Pakistan’s polio campaign tragedy?...
Patients Misused as Guinea Pigs in East Germany
by Nicola Kuhrt, Der Spiegel, Germany - Prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany sold patients as unwitting guinea pigs in drug trials conducted on behalf of Western pharmaceutical companies, according to a TV documentary....
Attempts to Avert HIV Are off Target
by Sarah Boseley, Mail & Guardian, South Africa - The death toll is falling but there is still no hope for an end to the worldwide pandemic....
You Owe Me
by Miah Arnold, Michigan Quarterly Review, USA - The children I write with die, no matter how much I love them, no matter how creative they are, no matter how many poems they have written, or how much they want...
Education Is Where HIV Care Begins
by Julia Kallas, IPS, Italy - When Shorai Chitongo founded Ray of Hope, a support group for female survivors of domestic violence in 2005, she discovered that three-quarters of the survivors in the group were HIV-positive....
Santiago de Cuba: Epidemiological Crisis or Child’s Play
by Janis Hernandez, Havana Times, Cuba - People’s questions, prejudices and speculation are all growing. Officially, any report on the situation is still being kept in locked draws, but it’s undeniable that Santiago is suffering from an epidemiological crisis. Some...
Savita Had a Heartbeat, Too
by Shivana Jorawar, RH Reality Check, USA - What does it say about a society when it leaves a woman to die in the name of “life?”...
AIDS Response Paying Off But More Needs To Be Done
by Faranaaz Parker, Mail & Guardian, South Africa - A new report on the global Aids epidemic shows a more than 50% drop in new HIV infections across 25 countries over the last 10 years....
I Know This Much Is True: Abortion Is A Medical Intervention to Which Women Need Access
by Marianne Møllmann, RH Reality Check, USA - While abortion, generally, is criminalized in Ireland, women whose lives are threatened by their pregnancy are constitutionally entitled to have an abortion in Ireland....
Infant Deaths: Searching for Answers in Mississippi
by Elizabeth Landau, CNN, USA - For every 1,000 Mississippi babies born in 2011, 9.4 died before their first birthday, according to the state's health office. That makes Mississippi's infant mortality rate more comparable to countries such as Costa Rica...
Woman 'Denied a Termination' Dies in Irish Hospital
by Kitty Holland, Irish Times, Ireland - “Savita was really in agony. She was very upset, but she accepted she was losing the baby. When the consultant came on the ward rounds on Monday morning Savita asked if they could...
Swaziland: The HIV and Gender Based Violence Nexus
by Bongiwe Zwane, Gender Links, South Africa - Many women go through the same torture when they disclose their HIV-positive status to their partner. This violence is so rife that some women have decided that disclosing their status is not...
Living Downstream
by Chanda Chevannes, Al Jazeera, Qatar - An American ecologist probes the effects of chemical industry polluting water supplies, while battling cancer....
How Can We Cure Cancer When Its Lifestyle That's to Blame?
by Christina Patterson, The Independent, UK - As the studies show curing cancer has become a Utopian dream and it's that the way we live that's making us ill. We can face this, or we can ignore it....
Abortion Stigma is Simply Discrimination: Here Is How We Get Rid of It
by Leila Hessini, RH Reality Check, USA - The social construct of abortion stigma creates an “us-versus-them” mentality—in spite of the fact that in the United States one in three women have abortions and a much higher share of all...
Q&A: Health Impacts of Genetically Modified Foods Still Unknown
by Julia Kallas, IPS, Italy - A range of issues surround genetically modified food in the United States, including overconsumption, a lack of long-term health studies and government intervention, and lax labelling laws, said Renee Sharp, California director and senior...
We All Count: A Southern Movement for Justice
by Bianca Campbell, Strong Families, USA - The Assembly is an effort led by grassroots organizations with the Southern Movement Alliance to increase voter education and registration in underrepresented communities, train new organizers, and create a Southern People’s Plan to...
Belfast's First Abortion Clinic Reignites Bitter Divide
by Leila Jacinto, France 24, France - The opening of the first private abortion clinic in Northern Ireland, set for October 18, has unleashed a flurry of campaigns on both sides of the abortion divide and exposed the murky status...
West Virginia’s Prescription Drug Problem: A Gift from the Coal Mining Industry?
by Alison Bass, Alison Bass, USA - West Virginia now has the second highest rate of prescription drug overdoses in the country, and a large part of that problem can be traced back to the state’s culture of disability, according...
Uruguayan Schools Slowly Say Goodbye to Junk Food
by Inés Acosta, Tierramérica, Uruguay - One quarter of children in Uruguay are overweight or obese. Uruguayan schoolchildren are learning that cookies, candy, potato chips and soft drinks are bad for their health....
Why Are These Men in an Ad for Breast Cancer Awareness?
by Amal Awad, Daily Life, Australia - With women long satisfying the figure of temptation, a culture of body shaming prevents them from addressing health issues at the preventative stage....
Urban Agriculture Sprouts in Brazil’s Favelas
by Fabíola Ortiz, IPS, Italy - Organic agriculture is a growing trend in big cities around the world, including Latin America, and now the favelas of Brazil are no exception....
A Mothers’ Movement for Future Generations
by Heidi Hutner, Yes!, USA - Cancer survivor Heidi Hutner worried about how to raise a baby girl in an increasingly toxic world. Why she, and others, are convening the Women’s Congress for Future Generations to make the earth safe...
Aids Conference Reflects New Hope for Africa
by Mia Malan, Mail & Guardian, South Africa - Africa has been the poor relative with too few representatives at global HIV/Aids conferences. But things are changing....
Stop Fanning the “Mommy Wars”: Enough with the “Breastfeeding Bullies” Articles, Jezebel!
by Sayantani DasGupta, Adios Barbie, USA - The truth of the matter is, issues such as insufficient milk production, a failure to latch on properly, and resultant problems such as infant weight loss are often tied to immediate post-birth practices...
California's Historic Move to Ban Gay Conversion 'Therapy'
by Lindsay Abrams, The Atlantic, USA - The state's landmark legislation highlights the sordid, fascinating past of homosexual 'treatments' -- from DIY electroshocks to testicular transplants....
Organ Trafficking Resurfaces in Pakistan
by Zofeen Ebrahim, IPS, Italy - According to the World Health Organisation, an estimated 10,000 illegally purchased organ transplants take place each year. It says illicit organ trafficking rings have been uncovered in China, India and Pakistan....
Beyond Comfort Food
by Safieh Shah, Dawn, Pakistan - The shocks and pressures of dealing with migration contributed to the desire to deal with emotions through food — often feelings of loneliness and homesickness were sought to be dissipated via a meal, which...
Sri Lankan Farmers Face Heavy-Metals Fear
by Amantha Perera, Asia Times, Hong Kong - A new report links the high prevalence of chronic kidney disease in Sri Lanka's main agricultural production regions with the presence of heavy metals in the water, caused by fertilizer and pesticide...
Why I Help Addicts Shoot Up
by Meera Bai with John Stackhouse, Christian Week, USA - Constant humiliation makes the people I work with especially vulnerable, and vulnerable in almost every way: to violence, to exploitation, to false hope and finally to despair. When allowed into...
Palestinian Women's Killings Spark Outcry over Lax Laws
by Catherine Morrisey Ribeiro, The Feminist Wire, USA - Four recent cases of Palestinian women slain allegedly at the hand of relatives have prompted women and human rights groups to demand tougher laws against domestic violence and more stringent enforcement...
Free Trade Deals, Drug Patents Derail AIDS Fight
by Amanda Wilson, IPS, Italy - As the nineteenth International AIDS Conference continued in Washington Tuesday, thousands of protesters marched on the White House with a set of demands to end the epidemic....
'Black Gold' and Corruption in Nigeria - Women's Health Pays the Price
by Lola Johnson, Safe World, UK - Although Nigeria is placed 30th out of 193 countries in terms of wealth, a United Nations report states that in quality of life, this ‘Giant of Africa’ “rates below all other major oil...
Death, Suicide Rates among Inuit Kids Soar over Rest of Canada
by Helen Branswell, The Globe and Mail, Canada - “There’s no way to downplay the impact that suicide has on life here. And it’s a big priority of many people – including the [Nunavut] government and the Inuit organization NTI...
On Abortion, Beware the Overshare
by Hannah Betts, Guardian, UK - American feminists want women to 'come out' about abortion. But the political needn't be personal....
It's Time Environmental Health and Public Health Were Governed as One
by Caroline Lucas, Guardian, UK - Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin knew how closely the two were linked, and politicians now have a chance to catch up....
Muslims and Jews Outraged by Circumcision Ruling
by Barbara Hans, Der Spiegel, Germany - Leaders of Germany's Jewish and Muslim communities have criticized a court ruling they fear could make circumcision a punishable offense in the country. Only 10 percent of German boys are circumcised, but the...
Should Not Disclosing Your HIV Status Be a Crime?
by Nicole Pasulka, Mother Jones, USA - In 2007, Donald Bogardus contracted HIV from his long-term partner. When he later had unprotected sex with a man who didn't know Bogardus was HIV positive, he was charged under an Iowa law...
Landmark Case Raises ‘Weak and Unpersuasive, but Arguable, Grounds for Appeal’
by Sunny Dhillon, The Globe and Mail, Canada - Gloria Taylor is the only person in Canada who can legally seek physician-assisted suicide, but a lawyer who was involved in the landmark court case says he expects other terminally ill...
The Silent Victims: More Men Have Eating Disorders Than Ever Before
by Rebecca Wagner, The Atlantic, USA - You know the stereotype: A girl, inspired by her Barbie dolls, wants to achieve the "perfect" figure. But what about boys and G.I. Joe?...
My Story of an Illegal Abortion
by Belgin Tan, Hurriyet, Turkey - I had an abortion years ago when it was still illegal in Turkey. It was the correct decision. I can’t imagine what would have happened if I had had to have that unwanted baby....
Medicine’s Deadly Gender Gap
by Anne Kingston, Maclean's, Canada - New research on pain, medical devices and even PMS reveals big holes in our knowledge of the female body....
DRC: Behind the (Prison) Walls
by Caroline Gluck, Oxfam Conflict & Emergencies, UK - According to a UN report last year, an estimated 51 million people, or three quarters of the population in Congo, have no access to safe drinking water....
What One Week on an Abortion Fund Hotline Taught Me About the Economics of Stigma
by Jessica Mack, RH Reality Check, USA - Here in the US, where Americans spend an average of $110 million on fast food each year, some will spend $10,000 for breast implants, and still others will drop $90 on yoga...
Georgia: Can Tbilisi be Supersized?
by Molly Corso, EurasiaNet, USA - As Georgia rushes to embrace the West, American-style fast food franchises are trying to make inroads into a country with a rich culinary tradition....
If the Food’s in Plastic, What’s in the Food?
by Susan Freinkel, Huffington Post, USA - In a study published last year in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, researchers put five San Francisco families on a three-day diet of food that hadn’t been in contact with plastic. When they...
FDA Issues Voluntary Plan to Limit Antibiotics in Agriculture
by Helena Bottemiller, Food Safety News, USA - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is taking its biggest step yet to rein in the indiscriminate use of antibiotics that help food animals grow bigger, faster....
Private Toilets for Rural Women Continue to Transform Lives
by Shuriah Niazi, Women News Network, USA - A new women’s movement has been building in rural India. It’s demanding something never considered before for women who often live in areas without adequate or clean running water. Often these are...
Slip, Slop or Scare Tactic?
by Sarah Berry, The Age, Australia - Has the sun smart message gone too far? A number of scientists say yes....
Walk This Way
by Vered Lee, Haaretz, Israel - The pedestrian is the human heart of the city, and his movement is the strongest possible expression of the link between the environment and the community....
Tapped out: Water in California’s Farm Country Is Dangerously Polluted
by Twilight Greenaway, Grist, USA - At least 2.6 million (or one in 10) people in this region rely on groundwater to drink, and it would cost a full $20 million to $35 million annually to provide them with safe...
Losing Weight: A Challenge for Women in GCC Countries
by Dr. Mona S. Almunajjed, Arab Times, Saudi Arabia - The percentage of the population aged 20-79 with diabetes in 2010 is 19 percent in the UAE, Saudi Arabia 17 percent, Bahrain, Qatar, and Kuwait around 15 percent, and Oman...
Hymen Reconstruction Doesn't Work
by Maike Winters, Radio Netherlands, Netherlands - The need to be seen as a virgin compels some young women to go through hymen reconstruction. But new Dutch research shows that hymenoplasty doesn't cause the desired bleeding during nuptial night intercourse....
Time to Adapt to Climate Change Impact on Women’s Lives
by Mariela Jara, IPS, Italy - This year’s unusually rainy season in Peru is having a negative effect on the wellbeing and health of women in rural areas who are forced, for example, to spend three times as much time...
Stories of Abortion
by Kathy Sheridan, Irish Times, Ireland - This week in the Dáil, a private members’ Bill to give effect to the 20-year-old Supreme Court decision in the “X” case was introduced by Clare Daly of the Socialist party on behalf...
Gluten-Triggered Coeliac Disease Gaining Recognition in UAE
by Patricia Carswell, The National, UAE - "Symptoms in a child are failure to thrive, abnormal (pale or runny) stools, lack of appetite, weakness and behavioural issues. In adults, they include gut symptoms, tiredness and neurological complaints. All of these...
Antibiotics Injected Directly Into Eggs and Other Big Pharma Secrets
by Martha Rosenberg, Huffington Post, USA - It was not a great surprise that the FDA's new cephalosporin livestock rules have the Agribusiness Seal of Approval. It was Big Pharma and Agribusiness lobbying that killed its stronger cephalosporin rules issued...
The Polio Story
by Zubeida Mustafa, Dawn, Pakistan - Pakistan has failed to educate its children. It is now failing to protect them from communicable diseases like poliomyelitis, an untreatable crippling disease caused by a virus....
New Guide to Who Really Shouldn't Eat Gluten
by Melinda Beck, The Wall Street Journal, USA - A group of 15 experts from seven countries is proposing a new classification system for the gluten-related disorders plaguing a growing number of people around the world for unknown reasons....
The Mammogram Diversion: Is Komen Laying the Groundwork to Reject Planned Parenthood Proposals?
by Jodi Jacobson, RH Reality Check, USA - If Komen suddenly decides it is no longer about comprehensive breast cancer prevention services, it will be deciding as well to abandon those low-income and uninsured women whose primary care its grants...
Life in an Unhealthy Climate
by Mandi Smallhorne, Mail & Guardian, South Africa - An absence of fresh, clean water in adequate amounts for drinking and washing, coupled with undernourished people add up to a perfect health storm: water-borne diseases like cholera thrive in such...
The Controversial Release of Suicide Mosquitoes
by Rafaela von Bredow, Der Spiegel, Germany - A British biotech lab has released huge numbers of genetically modified mosquitoes in an effort to combat dengue fever. But locals, some say, were not adequately informed of the experiment -- and...
No, That’s Not Snow
by Verena Vradulovic, In Image and In Word, USA - Decades of applied pesticides and fertilizers have delivered high yield, immaculate- looking fruit to many of the supermarkets in the U.S. and to the far corners of the globe, but...
First Attempts to Limit Farm Chemicals
by Rocío Alorda, Latin America Press, Peru - Use of highly toxic pesticides and other farming chemicals in Chile is rampant, posing serious health risks and damages for the farmers who use them. In response, on Dec. 19, the Agriculture...
The Way It Was
by Eleanor Cooney, Mother Jones, USA - Like some ugly old wall-to-wall carpeting they've been yearning to get rid of, they finally, finally loosened a little corner of Roe. Now they can start to rip the whole thing up, roll...
Health Experts’ Warning on Sanitary Pads
by Jennifer Dube, The Standard, Zimbabwe - As women continue to seek ways of improving their health, some have resorted to using imported pads believed to have protective qualities. The Anion pads, mainly sold by those who trade in imported...
New Vaccine Could Help End Malaria
by Meera Dalal, Al Jazeera, Qatar - The tropical disease kills more people annually than cancer, but researchers think they can win the fight....
To Die for: PPD in Hair Dye -- What We Don't Know Won't Kill Us or Will it?
by Melanie Vollick, Rabble, Canada - In the past 20 years, only 15 per cent of the 80,000 new chemicals that have been invented since the 1950s have been tested for health and safety, and none of them have been...
Insight: FDA Warned PIP on Breast Implant Safety
by Anna Yukhananov, Next, Nigeria - A critical question is why the FDA's warning didn't trigger greater scrutiny of PIP's activities by regulators in France and elsewhere....
2012: The Year to Stop Playing Nice
by Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit, USA - Given all the defeats and set-backs this year due to powerful food industry lobbying, the good food movement should by now be collectively shouting: I am mad as hell and I’m not...
Bangladesh: Climate Change to Increase Hunger and Malnutrition
by Juhie Bhatia, Global Voices, The Netherlands - As governments gear up for the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP17) in Durban, South Africa, which starts today, experts are warning that among climate change's greatest consequences in developing countries such...
Sanitation in South Asia: Women Economists Urge Governments to Act
by Alka Pande, Arab News, Saudi Arabia - The observance of World Toilet Day was initiated by the World Toilet Organization on Nov. 19, 2001, to raise global awareness of the emotional and psychological consequences the poor endure as a...
From Bath, England to Bath, New York Gas Drilling Is Fracking Up Our Planet
by Theodora Filis, UK Progressive, UK - Oil and gas are the only two industries which are allowed by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to inject hazardous materials either directly into or near drinking water supplies, unchecked, with no...
EAST AFRICA: ‘It’s Not a Heartless Mother Leaving a Child Behind, Just One Who Wants to Survive’
by Miriam Gathigah, IPS, Italy – On the road between the Kenyan and Somali border lie the dead bodies of children who have succumbed to the famine and the hardships of making the journey from their drought-stricken villages to Kenya....
Women Fight to Save Fukushima's Children
by Suvendrini Kakuchi, IPS, Italy - Hundreds of Japanese women have been converging on the Japanese capital demanding better relief for some 30,000 children exposed to nuclear radiation by the Fukushima meltdown....
Is the EPA Selling Out Your Water?
by Kate Fried, Food & Water Watch, USA - If there is any money to be made in water privatization, it’s among wealthy corporations and their shareholders, who time and time again have proven that they are not responsible patrons...
Then They Came for Your Birth Control
by Kate Sheppard, Mother Jones, USA -The "personhood" amendment on the Mississippi ballot on November 8 doesn't just ban all abortions. It would also likely outlaw several types of birth control and possibly make all forms of hormonal contraception illegal...
France Leads Crackdown on BPA in Food Packaging
by Suzanne Krause, Deutsche Welle, Germany - Bisphenol-A is widely used to harden plastics. It has been linked to dangerous disruptions of organisms' hormones, especially in infants. France is taking bold action, banning the chemical in food packaging by 2014....
Climate Change a ‘Catastrophic’ Threat to Global Health
by Katie Murray, AlterNet, UK - Climate change will be “catastrophic” to global health and could foster global instability and insecurity, a group of prominent scientists, environmental health experts and government officials warned Monday....
Life Begins at 60
by Zubeida Mustafa, Zubeida Mustafa, Pakistan - Today people don’t ‘retire’ in the conventional sense of withdrawing from active life to wait for the inevitable end. Most people remain as active in their later years as they have been in...
Global Forum On Sanitation Begins In Mumbai
by Marianne de Nazareth, Countercurrents, India - Some 500 activists, business leaders, health professionals, governmental officials and others from 70 countries are attending this first-ever Global Forum on Sanitation and Hygiene. Arranged by the Geneva-based WSSCC and the Governments of...
The Trouble with Female Genitalia: The Medicalization of Sex
by Meghan Murphy, rabble, Canada - Why is the alteration of women's pubic hair, vaginas, and vulva such a common practice in our culture? Is there something inherently problematic about women's genitalia?...
Best Chance at Life
by Mairead Dundas, France 24, France - Every day, maternal health innovations are improving the chances that babies will survive to see the light of day. This week we take a look at some of the revolutionary research techniques being...
Body Blow for Butter-Loving Danes as Fat Tax Kicks In
by Alexandra Topping, Guardian, UK - Campaigners urge Britain to follow Denmark's lead in fighting obesity by taxing unhealthy food products....
Selling Condoms in the Congo
by Amy Lockwood, Ted, USA - HIV is a serious problem in the DR Congo, and aid agencies have flooded the country with free and cheap condoms. But few people are using them. Why? "Reformed marketer" Amy Lockwood offers a...
Japan Sizes Up Task of Fukushima Waste Disposal
by Yoko Kubota, AlertNet, UK - Japan faces the prospect of removing and disposing 29 million cubic metres of soil contaminated by the world's worst nuclear crisis in 25 years from an area nearly the size of Tokyo, the environment...
Household Tips from Warrior Mom!
by Sandra Steingraber, Orion, USA - On the desire to change lightbulbs instead of paradigms....
Spiritual Environmentalism: Healing Ourselves by Replenishing the Earth
by Wangari Maathai, Yes!, USA - When we can eat healthier, nonadulterated food; when we breathe clean air and drink clean water; when the soil can produce an abundance of vegetables or grains, our own sicknesses and unhealthy lifestyles become...
What's in an “Om”?: How Women Are Transforming Yoga
by Meera Subramanian, Religion Dispatches, USA - Now it is women who have become what Kate Clere McIntyre describes as “modern-day evangelists, getting up on their yoga platform” and finding ways to push women to do things they think they...
Living with HIV and Dying of TB
by Shobha Shukla, Counter Currents, India - Fuelled by the HIV pandemic and the spread of drug-resistant strains, tuberculosis (TB) has re-emerged as a major threat to global health. TB is a curable disease that continues to affect millions of...
Helping Homelessness Through Football
by Nicola Hebden, France 24, France - At the foot of the Eiffel Tower, in distinctly autumnal weather for August, the one of the world’s largest international football events took place. Despite only having three 22 by 16 meter AstroTurf...
Women and HIV
by Morolake Odetoyinbo, UN Chronicle, USA - Can we dare take a look at those national laws and policies which make women second-class citizens? Is it conceivable—and that is no accidental pun—that women’s rights can include sexual, reproductive, inheritance, and...
The Anti-Choice Minority Are Being Allowed to Dictate Policy
by Laurie Penny, New Statesman, UK - The majority of British people - 76 per cent - are pro-choice. It is the anti-choice minority, however, who are being permitted to write and dictate policy specifically designed to prevent abortions from...
September 11th Health Issues
by Dr Sima Barmania, The Independent, UK - Although the official number of people that died in the World Trade Center is quoted as 2,753, the profundity of the attacks cannot be defined simply by mortality; there are also, health...
Being Black and Green: African-Americans & the Environment
by Zoe Sullivan, Making Contact, USA - Communities across the country have embraced locally-grown food, fuel-efficient cars and other forms of environmentalism. While African-Americans haven’t been on widely credited, they are amongst the vanguard creating positive change....
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