Brook Spencer is the Community Outreach Director with the Mesothelioma Cancer Alliance
Asbestos is a toxic material that is known to cause mesothelioma, a form of cancer. The material is still used across the globe exposing people to the resulting mesothelioma.
WALLINGFORD, CT, US, Sep 8 2017 (IPS) – The worldwide impact cancer has is well known. It is the second leading cause of death globally, and according to the , was responsible for 8.8 million deaths in 2015. Globally, nearly 1 in 6 death…
Despite gains in the last few decades, global targets set out five years ago have not been met. UN officials told a High-Level Meeting on AIDS this week that among populations such as sex workers and women and girls in Sub-Saharan Africa, discrimination, gender-based violence and criminalisation are fuelling the epidemic.
UN officials say they are worried that the achievements in the HIV/AIDS response are uneven and the most vulnerable are at highest ri…
Hunger and food insecurity impact more than 38 million Americans. Black and Hispanic families and other minority groups including LGBTQ folks, consistently and disproportionally experience food insecurity.
URBANA, Illinois, USA, Jun 15 2022 (IPS) – This September, . Leading up to the conference, the White House is organizing across America to hear firsthand from people impacted by food insecurity and to collect ideas about how to end hunger and hunger-related diseases and disparities.
Hunger and food insecurity impact more than 38 million Americans. Black and Hispanic families and other minority groups including LGBTQ folks, consistently and disproportionally exper…
Dr. Abdulrahman Bizri, member of the Lebanese parliament and the parliamentary committee on public health, professor of medicine and infectious diseases at the American University of Beirut (AUB) and chair of the national COVID vaccine committee and response.
BEIRUT & TORONTO , Jul 8 2024 (IPS) – This summer is bringing an additional challenge to the public health front in Lebanon, along with higher-than-normal temperature…