Relief for patients as Kenyan doctors agree to end national strike after almost two months
The end of the strike comes as a relief to millions of Kenyans seeking health services from public hospitals that had been crippled by the strike. Some hospitals had decided to hire temporary doctors for emergency services.
Truth behind the fake meat industry: New film exposes in detail health risks of lab-grown meat
Considering the well-established effects of ultra-processed foods, it’s only a matter of time before the truth comes out about the health effects of lab-grown and cultured meats, which are the epitome of ultra-processed food.
Barons behind the brands: Money, power, povery and the corruption of America’s food industry
Being from rural Iowa and witnessing the 1980s Farm Crisis take hold of my family and neighbours, “Barons” takes a long overdue stand for the farm community of my youth. It’s a painful loss knowing that today’s industrial food system rises from the ashes of America’s family farms. And it is no accident.
Stripped of privacy and personal autonomy, global elites are now pushing us into ‘techno-totalitarianism’
McCollough called these entities “a group of very powerful controligarchs … who are trying to put in place techno-totalitarianism” and are “stripping the middle class of all of its assets, all of its resources, pushing us down into what is basically a serf class.”
Pot ‘crackers’ in US celebrate reclassification of marijuana but move won’t get drug pushers out of jail
Biden, a Democrat, supports legalising medical marijuana for use “where appropriate, consistent with medical and scientific evidence,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on April 25, 2024. “That is why it is important for this independent review to go through.”
Kenya and Rwanda push for transnational plastics and toxic plastic chemical controls or protections
More than 50 countries supported a proposal by Rwanda and Peru for assessing what a sustainable level for plastic production might look like. Plastic production is on track to triple by 2050, but today’s levels already “are unsustainable and far exceed our recycling and waste management capacities,” said Rwanda’s chief negotiator Juliet Kabera.
‘I knew they were killing people’: Whistleblower narrates how hospitals in USA forced Covid positive results
Zowe also addressed the misuse of ventilators. “At one point they [hospital intranet system] sent out a message that said the FiO2 [oxygen concentration] settings on the ventilators have been killing people,” she said. But when she went back to look for the message, it had been deleted.
FTC report lays bare how corporate greed puts huge bite on working families who spend most of their income on food
Time and again, big companies tell us that if they could only get bigger, they would pass savings on to consumers. This is almost never true. Instead, they give money back to their investors and reward executives – like Walmart’s Doug McMillon, who takes home over $25 million a year, and Kroger’s Rodney McMullen, who makes more than $19 million. That’s 671 times more than the amount an average Kroger worker makes.
Malaria remains leading killer in Kenya, but prospect of local vaccine production offers hope for patients
Kenya had an estimated five million malaria cases and over 12,000 deaths reported in 2022, according to the World Health Organization. Most of those affected are children under 5 and pregnant women. Kenya continues to combat malaria with traditional methods such as distributing bed nets that are treated with insecticides, spraying breeding areas and promoting prompt diagnosis and treatment, but experts say progress against the disease with those approaches has plateaued.
Why WHO report predicts 77 per cent rise in cancers by 2050: ‘Covid vaccines damage immune system’
The cancer occurred in a 66-year-old man, mere days after he got his third Pfizer shot. Ironically, he got the shot to protect him during chemotherapy, and in eight days, the cancer just exploded and spread like wildfire. According to Makis, that kind of progression would normally take a couple of years or at least a few months.
