Every three seconds, someone in the world develops dementia. More than 55 million people worldwide are currently living with dementia, including an estimated 6.7 million adults living with Alzheimer’s ...

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in healthcare refer to specific measurable performance metrics assessing the efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of care provided by organizations to understand ...

The environment one lives in directly impacts one’s health — common sense tells us this. If someone knowingly harms another’s health, clear grounds for reparations exist. What happens, then, if our ...

[Originally published in Synapse on April 16, 1981.] Last Saturday, International Committee Against Racism (InCAR) and Progressive Labor Party took a leading role in forcibly preventing a Ku Klux Klan ...

For the past 17 months, we have witnessed in real-time how a genocide unfolds and what the essential components of it are. From watching livestream footage of splayed children’s bodies hanging on the ...

Originally published in Synapse on March 15, 1984. The women’s movement in this country must be broadened to address issues relevant to Black and working-class people, political activist Angela Davis ...

Hunger is a natural part of life, but have you ever stopped to consider why you’re feeling hungry? Understanding the difference between physiological and psychological hunger can help you make more ...

On February 1, 2025 the Inside Medicine Substack reported that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ordered agency scientists to withdraw research manuscripts under consideration ...

Thank you for your trust So when all is quiet I have the strength to hold still And not run away Eons were washed over by distractions And now, in silence I look at the impulse to distract in the eyes ...

At the age of thirteen, my genetic disorder caused my growth to accelerate, leading to an unusually tall stature. My pediatrician predicted a height of at least 6' 4" after puberty, whereas the ...

After years of internal debate, I finally got my first tattoo. He’s a small lizard, with a topological map design inside, scaling the outer edge of my left ankle. His fine lines and tasteful detail ...

When the brutal apartheid regime of South Africa refused to heed the call from the international community to end its racist, immoral and illegal treatment of Black South Africans, the global ...