Budget Cut Will Leave Thousands of Cancer Patients Without Treatment
By: Luis Gay Edited by: Juliana Zhu, Esq. The Cancer Drug Fund (CDF) in England will no longer receive funds to pay the cost for 16 types of medicine, all of which are used in 23 types of cancer treatments. This decision has been made by the National Health Service (NHS) due to the CDF massively overspending its budget. The Rarer Cancer Foundation said that this detrimental decision will affect about 5,500 patients. Prime Minister David Cameron originally set up the fund to p
Tazewell County in Washington, Illinois, Seeking to Treat Mental Health of Incarcerated
By: Kristine Alarcon Edited by: Juliana Zhu, Esq. Throughout the US, nearly 360,000 mentally ill people are incarcerated instead of being admitted into psychiatric hospitals. Tazewell County in Washington, Illinois is on its way to develop a program that could aid non-violent defendants with mental health issues. It will include improvements for monitoring and treatment services. The aim of the program would be to treat those who require treatment rather than arrest them. How
Italian Fruit Pickers Dying From Harmful Working Conditions
By: Charmaine Santos Edited by: Juliana Zhu, Esq. Puglia, Italy is home to five-star hotels and luxury villas that cater to northern Europe’s middle classes. Little do tourists know, however, that the fruit they enjoy at their dinner table is usually picked under horrifying conditions. Tens of thousands of unskilled and poor female workers/migrants work long hours under illegal conditions with very little pay. Some of the fruits of the region even make their way to as far as
Why Sexual Offenders May Prefer Children or the Elderly
By: Detective Don Howell The Orange County Register (California) last week reported that a 19 year old man had been arrested for the sexual assault of a woman, who was living in a senior-assisted living apartment. The offender pretended to be a masseur to gain access to the woman and to establish a level of trust with her. He later sexually assaulted her, in her room. Why is this important to someone wanting to protect their children? First, many sexual assaults involve a vic
Life Again: Film for Cancer Awareness
By: Kristine Alarcon Edited by: Juliana Zhu, Esq. “Life again” highlights the true story of cancer survivor, Hyma Reddy. Reddy also directs the film and shares her journey with cancer. With this film, she hopes to bring cancer awareness and inspire other women who are affected by cancer. Kalvakuntia Kavitha, a Member of the Parliament from Nizambad constituency in Telangana state, produces the film. She is known for bring cultural renaissance with a strong organizational fram
Uganda Bans Bride Price Reimbursement to Battle Domestic Abuse
By: Luis Gay Edited by: Juliana zhu, Esq. In various regions of Uganda, a man asks to marry a woman by paying her family a dowry (money or livestock). If a woman chooses to leave her husband, he could ask for a reimbursement, otherwise known as a “bride price.” However, a recent ruling by Uganda’s Supreme Court will not allow bride prices to be refunded anymore as rights groups believe it is a step in the right direction in battling domestic abuse. The Court ruled in a 6-1 vo
Unseen Chains
By: Janice Tjeng Edited by: Juliana Zhu, Esq. Unseen Chains is a film that tells the story of a young girl who is manipulated into a domestic minor sex trafficking ring. Domestic minor sex trafficking (DMST) is the commercial sexual exploitation of children through buying, selling, or trading their sexual services. Once a girl is coerced into the sex trade, she will most likely die within 7 years due to drug overdose, untreated STD, physical abuse, or she will be murdered whe
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Their Impact on Adult Health
By: San Diego Black Health Association (SDBHA) When 10 types of child trauma were measured in a CDC study of 17,000 people in San Diego, researchers were stunned to discover that not only it was very common, but it raised the risk of adult onset of chronic disease to unimagined levels. Even more startling was that these 17,000 people were middle-class, college-educated, mostly white people. Their average age was 57 years old and they all had jobs and good health care, because
