Extra Cancer Deaths Due to Financial Crisis
According to a study by Lancet, a UK medical journal, the global financial crisis may have caused 500,000 extra cancer deaths from 2008 to 2010. Patients were unable to obtain treatment due to unemployment and health care cuts. Researchers used World Health Organization and World Bank Statistics on over 70 countries and more than two billion individuals to study the link between cancer mortality, healthcare spending, and unemployment. They analyzed the trend from 1990 to 2010
Texas HB2: Consequences of Assaults on Abortion Access
Texas is one of the states in the US that has very strict abortion laws because it is conservative. The Texas House Bill No. 2 (HB2) is an anti-abortion law passed in 2013. The HB2 bill adds several new restrictions to abortion care in Texas. Some of these additional restrictions include: physicians must have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the abortion clinics; abortion physicians are not allowed to perform abortions on women who are 20 weeks or more in
Conquering Incest: My Life as a Trauma Survivor
Summary Conquering Incest: My Life as a Trauma Survivor is a candid description of the sheer agony that victims undergo as a result of familial rape and trauma. Ms. Champé's book brings to light the victim's struggles by writing from the perspective of the broken child whose emotional state crumbles in her adult years. She also backdrops her book with her family's success; the face shown to the public can be very different from the internal dysfunctional truth. In doing so, s
