Our health is one of the most important things in our lives that can be overlooked or mismanaged, even by professionals. Mistakes can often be made, and important ailments may be completely missed even by the most stringent of doctors. Despite this, we have to keep on top of things in order to make sure that we properly maintain our health.
However, though medical mishaps are fairly common, we don’t have to completely rely on our doctors to keep us healthy. We can take matters into our own hands to avoid mistakes and misdiagnoses by maintaining our own health before it becomes a real issue. After all, we are ultimately responsible for our own bodies and our health in general.
Mistakes Happen
It is an unfortunate fact of life, but everyone makes mist…
Peter Richards
PORT OF SPAIN, Oct 31 2006 (IPS) – The latest sign that the Patrick Manning administration is not about to back down on its plans to permit the construction of smelter plants in Trinidad and Tobago came during the government s presentation of its 2006-7 national budget to the parliament earlier this month.
Prime Minister Manning told legislators that two aluminium smelter plants, including one by the U.S. firm Alcoa, would be built here even though the government understands the concerns raised by citizens regarding the construction of these smelters .
The other plant, Alutrint, is a partnership between the locally-based National Energy Corporation (NEC) and the Sural Group of Venezuela. It is 60 percent owned by the government with the Venezuelan group…
Mithre J. Sandrasagra
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 17 2007 (IPS) – The world s response to protect and support HIV-infected and AIDS-affected children remains tragically insufficient , but that is beginning to change, according to a new report by the U.N. children s agency UNICEF.
The Unite for Children, Unite Against AIDS initiative was launched in October 2005 by UNICEF with the goal of putting the missing face of children at the centre of the global HIV/AIDS agenda.
This week s report, titled Children and AIDS: A Stocktaking Report , evaluates the world s response to protect and support AIDS-affected children in the year since the initiative began.
One year ago we did not know how many children were on treatment, we did not know how many governments were spending m…
Keya Acharya
BANGALORE, May 25 2009 (IPS) – India passed a law for equal opportunities and rights for persons with disabilities in 1995, but in spite of taking more steps than some other developing countries, its 60 million physically challenged population remains hugely disadvantaged.
There are very few options in wheelchair production, especially for children, with no regular supply of whatever is available, K.N. Gopinath, assistant director of the Bangalore-based Association of People with Disabilities (APD), a national organisation working to empower the physically challenged told IPS.
Technology in locomotion and mobility for the disabled has progressed worldwide, but India continues to use antiquated tricycles and wheelchairs as mobility devices.
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Chryso D Angelo
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 6 2009 (IPS) – An estimated 13 million babies worldwide are born prematurely and more than one million die each year, say health experts.
Africa tops preterm birth rates around the world at 11.9 percent, followed by North America (10.6 percent) and Asia (9.1 percent), according to The Global and Regional Toll of Preterm Birth , a report from the March of Dimes charity based on statistics recently published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organisation (WHO).
The study, presented at the Fourth International Conference on Birth Defects and Disabilities in the Developing World Oct. 4-7 in New Delhi, India, reveals that Africa and Asia accounted for an overwhelming 85 percent of all preterm births combined in 2005, despite the fact t…
Zimbabwe struggles to contain maternity deaths. Here in this southern African nation, the number of women dying in childbirth continues to rise. Credit: Jeffrey Moyo/ IPS
HARARE, Jan 30 2015 (IPS) – For 47-year-old Albert Mangwendere from Mutoko, a district 143 kilometres east of Harare, the Zimbabwean capital, transporting his three pregnant wives using a wheelbarrow to a local clinic has become routine, with his wives delivering babies one after the other.
But these routines have not always been a source of joy for Mangwendere.
“Over the past twenty years, I have been ferrying my pregnant wives to a local clinic using a wheelbarrow because I have no …
Written by Isabelle Durant, Deputy Secretary-General, and Pamela Coke-Hamilton, Director, Division on International Trade and Commodities, UNCTAD
Gender equality concept as woman hands holding a white paper sheet with male and female symbol over a crowded city street background. Sex sign as a metaphor of social issue.
GENEVA, Apr 2 2020 – Globally, women are more vulnerable to economic shocks wrought by crises such as the coronavirus pandemic.
Why are women so at risk?
Firstly, women are more likely to lose their jobs than men. In many countries, women s participation in the labour market is often in the form of temporary employment.
Felix Horne is a senior environmental researcher at Human Rights Watch
The World Health Organization calls air pollution the “single biggest environmental threat to human health” and estimates that 99 percent of the world’s population live in locations that are above WHO thresholds designed to protect human health. . Credit: Malav Goswami/IPS
Sep 2 2022 (IPS) – Tarik, age 42, live…