Entries from The WIP Contributors tagged with 'Science'
Curing Cancer: Understanding Chemotherapy
by Paromita Pain -USA- Susan Mai did not want to die. When she was diagnosed with breast cancer and her doctor prescribed a course of chemotherapy, she knew it was the most that could be done. The very words “cancer”...
Medical Tourism: When Push Comes to Shove, My Embryonic Stem Cell Adventure Begins
by Amy B. Scher -USA- I am on a 21-hour flight, I am disabled, uncomfortable, and in pain. I hate crowds, I get anxious when I cannot escape from a small space, and I am not fond of germs. I...
The Body Worlds Exhibition: Macabre Freak Circus or Exploration of the Human Anatomy?
by Caroline Achieng Otieno -Netherlands- Within my community as in many African communities, death is seen as a great and irredeemable tragedy even when it occurs in old age. The reverence with which the Luo people view their ancestors is...
VIP Falcon Health Care in the United Arab Emirates
by Victoria Aitken -UK- Ever heard of a hospital which is an international tourist attraction recommended by guidebooks and airlines? Where state of the art medical technology is virtually limitless? And whose patients are all VIPs yet never complain? Welcome...
No Ordinary Fatigue: Battling Sjögren's
by Paromita Pain -USA- “We cried the first time I told my family I had Sjögren's syndrome,” says Susan Ross. “Dealing with the pain and fatigue seemed so overwhelming at times, but I was glad to finally know what it...
Refuse, Renew, and Precycle this World Oceans Day
by Katharine Daniels Executive Editor June 8 is World Oceans Day – a growing global celebration of the big blue body of life that covers 71 percent of the earth’s surface. “The ocean makes life on Earth possible,” reads the...
To Survive Humans Need Will to Change: Commit to Reducing Pollution and Waste this Earth Day
by Victoria Stirling -Canada- What legacy are we going to leave our descendants? Will human beings worldwide re-evaluate our actions, our politics, and our economics according to their effects on the whole network of life? Today the ethics of ecology...
Geotherapy: Artist Mara Haseltine's Blueprints to Save the Planet
by Nora Maccoby - USA - "The question for me has always been: How can I help the world?" Mara Haseltine smiles - her large aquatic blue eyes bright and passionate. "Because it's a race against time. We have to...
Kashmir’s Economy Feels the Effects of Climate Change
by Nusrat Ara - Indian-administered Kashmir - After the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) admitted to a major mistake in its 2007 report, which asserted the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035, skeptics and opponents alike went on...
U.S. Stimulus Plan to Boost Geothermal Energy Prospects
by Kimberly N. Chase - USA - In an unmarked meadow by the side of the road at The Geysers, the 30-square-mile steam field about 70 miles north of San Francisco, California, the air smells like sulfur. Clouds of steam...
Weighing the Risks and Benefits of Hormone Replacement Therapy
by Dr. Chelsea Mooser - USA - As a breast cancer researcher, I tend to be the go-to gal on all topics science. A few weeks ago a woman asked me if, considering the risks and the benefits, I would...
2008 Bioneers Conference Focuses on Indigenous Culture in Sustainable Development
by Kimberly N. Chase - USA - It's not everyday that thousands of like-minded people from diverse fields come together to discuss ecological topics from biomimicry to eco-tourism, but the 2008 Bioneers conference, held October 17-19 in San Rafael, California...
The Rise of Medical Tourism: Americans Head to Foreign Shores for Healthcare
by Mridu Khullar - India - According to the National Coalition of Health Care in America, in 2007, total national health expenditures were expected to rise 6.9 percent—twice the rate of inflation. Healthcare spending is 4.3 times the amount spent...
Empowering The Poorest in Nepal For Safe Birthing
by Dr. Rita Thapa - Nepal - Nepal is one of the poorest countries in the world, wedged between China and India. With a total surface area of 147 square kilometers, the country is home to some 27 million Nepalis...
The U.K. and Australia Fight Breast Cancer with Free Screening for Women 50+
by Alice Alech - France - Working as a breast screen radiographer or x-ray technologist can be rewarding and challenging at times but I know that detecting even a small breast cancer can make a difference in a woman’s life....
Poor Kenyans Still Grapple with Jigger Infestation
by Joyce J. Wangui - Kenya - Young Kamau carries a heavy bucket of water on his head. Clad in tattered clothes that barely conceal his ill-nourished body, the young boy is aware that the cameras are focused not on...
Skin Bleaching Thrives Despite Ugandan Government Ban on Dangerous Cosmetics
by Halima Abdallah Kisule - Uganda - Scores of Ugandans continue to bleach their skin despite a government ban on the sale of several lotions, creams, gels and soaps which are largely used to whiten, even and tone the skin....
South Asia's Oldest Tree Species, Ginkgo biloba, Clings to Life in Indian-administered Kashmir
by Afsaana Rashid - Indian-administered Kashmir - Officials at the Kashmir Department of Agriculture are putting in serious effort to preserve a male Ginkgo biloba tree, a species that has almost vanished from South Asia. The Ginkgo, South Asia’s oldest...
Plans Cancelled: Your Husband Has Cancer
by Melissa Hahn - USA - Just before Christmas, we locked up our apartment in Krakow and walked across the Rynek towards the train station. Crossing the main square in the early morning drizzle, overburdened by our luggage and breathless...
National Healthcare? Too Many Hands in the Honey Pot
by Katie Thompson - USA - Elections invite a whirlwind of campaign promises: some that are feasible, some that are not, and some that will be forgotten on Inauguration Day. One of the most prominent issues for the Democratic candidates...
Green Hawks in the Pentagon: the American Army Is on a Green Mission
by Eva Sohlman - Sweden - Former CIA director Jim Woolsey eagerly leans across the table in the swanky restaurant of the Carlton-Ritz Hotel in Washington, D.C. The seriousness of the matter he’s discussing is reflected in his sharp, almost...
Poor Romas Sell Human Organs on the Black Market: Trading Kidneys for Firewood
by Natasha Dokovska - Macedonia - “I have seven children, I don't work, neither does my wife. For many years I thought about selling my kidney so I could give my children a better life, but just recently I found...
Women Bear the Brunt of Climate Crisis: Their Stories from the UN Conference in Bali
by Imelda V. Abaño - Philippines - At the December UN conference in Bali, Indonesia, experts and concerned people alike discussed how poor women in developing countries bear the brunt of climate change in a wide range of ways. They...
Creating Sustainable Cities: The Bay Area and New York City Lead the Way
by Michelle Chen - USA - Angela Greene has a tough job: she and her workcrew scale the rooftops of Richmond, California to run wires, lay racks, and bend metal piping. Yet in the end, when she unfurls a gleaming...
In Germany, a Rash of Mothers Killing Their Children Has Shocked the Nation
by Rose-Anne Clermont - Germany - When we think of children killed by their parents, we may recall a news documentary about a poor Indian family with an unwanted girl. Or, the media has helped us conjure the image of...
Obstetric Fistula: A Medical Nightmare for Malawian Women
by Pilirani Semu-Banda - Malawi - Veronica Yakobe has been living a nightmare for more than two decades. Twenty-three years ago, during a prolonged labor when giving birth to her fifth child, the unborn baby was pressed so tightly in...
NASA Confirms This Year’s Arctic Ice Is the Lowest Ever Recorded: To Nobel Nominee the Consequences Are Real
by Sarah Wyatt USA “The Arctic is not a wilderness or a frontier. It is our home. It is our homeland…Our entire way of life as we know it may end in my grandson's lifetime." • The unprecedented melting of...
Medical Community in Uganda Unites in Support of Pesticide Use to Eradicate Malaria - Environmentalists Still Protest
by Halimah Abdallah Kisule Uganda • A roadside billboard in Zambia encourages the community to spray. Photograph by Valentina Baj. •The numbers are staggering. Dr Myers Lugemwa, officer in charge of malaria research at the Ministry of Health’s Department of...
4th Annual International AIDS Society Conference Addresses Successes and Failures in the Global Fight Against the Virus
by Imelda V. Abaño Philippines • Opening session of the conference. Photograph courtesy of AIS 2007 •The AIDS epidemic remains a global crisis; its impact will be felt for decades to come. Today, as when it was officially first recognized...
Climate Change: An Urgent Issue for Poor Countries Like the Philippines
by Imelda V. Abaño Philippines • A child living in poverty on the island of Boracay, Philippines. Photograph by Jenny Webber •Nowhere will the impact of climate change be felt more than in the world's poorest nations where people live...
Home Birth, Safe Birth
by Janelle Weiner USA Women in the US make a lot of choices before their babies are born, from which foods to eat, to which birth preparation class to take, to how to decorate the nursery. For most, however, there’s...
Newly Developed Technologies Designed to Assess and Mitigate Geo-Hazard Risks Could Effectively Save Thousands of Lives in Southeast Asia and Beyond
by Imelda V. Abano Philippines "I was working on our small vegetable farm in our backyard when I felt the earth tremble. I looked up and saw the landslide coming towards me. • Typical home in the mountainous Mangyan village,...
Hymen Repair Surgery in Macedonia: A Virgin Again for 400 Euros
by Natasha Dokovska Macedonia In the past, if a woman wasn’t a virgin, she would surreptitiously pour animal blood on the bed after consummating her marriage. Today, this tradition has been replaced in Macedonia with a more sophisticated ruse –...
Bureaucracy Killed a Man: Slovenia's Health Care System Creates Another Tragedy
by Viktorija Plavcak Slovenia Two weeks ago in Celje, the third largest city in Slovenia, a fifty-year old man, barely able to drive himself to the hospital, walked into the ER in the middle of the night complaining about shortness...
Our Bodies, Our Cells: An Interview with Dr. Joyce Whiteley Hawkes
“…a rare combination of rational scientist and enlightened healer”
by Hayward Hawks Marcus USA • Mast Cells. Photograph by Ed Uthman •Ten thousand could dance on the head of a pin - if they could dance. Invisible to the human naked eye, they are with us from conception, doing...
Medicine Tops Science in Mumbai
By Lara Vogel USA Though meant as a break from the hectic pace of my eight-month trip around the world, it had been an intense few weeks. Leaving Europe and Northern Africa behind, I spent July in Mumbai exploring its...
PMTCT: Uganda's Effort to Prevent Mother-to-Child Transmission of AIDS
By Esther Nakkazi Uganda The number of pregnant women in Uganda accessing Nevirapine, the drug that stops mothers from passing HIV to their newborn babies, is rapidly growing with all districts in the country now offering the service. Health officials...
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