Dr. Gabor Maté on the Stress-Disease Connection, Addiction, Attention Deficit Disorder and the Destruction of American Childhood Today, a Democracy Now! special with the Canadian physician and bestselling author, Dr. Gabor Maté. From disease to addiction, parenting to attention deficit disorder,…
Category: Health and safety
health and safety
“I’d rather be killed than be a killer”: How the Assad regime erased peaceful protesters
The friends continued their peaceful protests and decided to offer roses with bottles of water to the soldiers. Hiba remembers when, one night, another prominent Daraya activist, Ghiath Mattar, came to their house with flowers and bottles of water and stayed up all night with Islam, writing messages in preparation for the demonstration the following day. She sends me a photo of a rose affixed to a water bottle with an elastic band, and a handwritten message from Islam to the soldiers: “We are Syrians, why are you killing us?”…more: newstatesman
The Two Polio Vaccines
Hope and Pain: The Last Few Polio Survivors – Last of the Iron Lungs
Oshinori Ohsumi : ‘Self-Eating Cell’ Research Wins Nobel in Medicine
“O Believers, the Fast has been made obligatory on you just as it was prescribed for the followers of the Prophets before you. It is expected that this will produce piety in you.”( The Holy Qur’an: 2:183)
A Mass Burial Every Day: 1,200 Dead, and Counting, in Indonesia
“Do yo feel secure that He Who is in the heaven will not cause the earth to cave in with you…” More:(The Qur’aan)
Neighborhoods have been devastated…more:TheNewYorkTimes
Announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2018
‘Self-Eating Cell’ Research Wins Nobel in Medicine
“O Believers, the Fast has been made obligatory on you just as it was prescribed for the followers of the Prophets before you. It is expected that this will produce piety in you.”( The Holy Qur’an: 2:183)
How Many Deaths Does it Cost to Power the World
When switching a lightbulb on, one usually does not think of how many people it kills by leaving the light on longer than necessary. Nevertheless, as with almost everything in our industrialized world, not much comes without the cost of human life….more: statista
How fentanyl is making the opioid epidemic even worse
Data Brief: Opioid1 ‐Related Overdose Deaths Among Massachusetts Residents: more: Mass,gov.AuG 2018
Fighting opioid addiction: As long as it takes | Julia Picetti | TEDxUniversityofNevada
How UN Humanitarian Aid in Syria Has Propped Up Assad
…UN agencies such as the World Health Organization (WHO) have permitted the Assad regime to take control of the $30 billion international humanitarian response, using donor funds to skirt sanctions and subsidize the government’s war effort. The bulk of these billions in diverted funds are from the same Western governments that imposed the sanctions…more: foreignaffairs
