Each of the following medical cases are very rare, affecting less than 5 in every 10,000 people. There are almost 7,000 rare cases with no cure in the UK, affecting 3.5 million people. Benjamin Serra Elvira Roda is known as “bubble girl”. She has lived locked up inside her house […]
Tag: health
Between starvation & obesity
Latin America lives in duality. On the one hand 8.3% of the population doesn’t ingest the daily necessary calorie intake, and on the other, 16% of men and 23% of women are overweight. The Prisma Some 12.5% of the global population, which equates to almost 870 million people, is starving […]
Suicide in times of crisis… More humanity is required
Europe is trembling. Confusion about the future of the Union and the common currency is a daily concern. So are the conditions of millions of unemployed people, of pensioners without benefits, as well as the reduction of budgets for education , health, unemployment assistance… Iria Leirós Pérez Two questions are […]
‘You shall not commit adultery’… an old command in a new context?
In the 1950s, Joy Davidman (b. 1915), wrote Smoke on the Mountain, about the Ten Commandments. In this work, she presented a feminist interpretation of the command that ‘You shall not commit adultery’. Nigel Pocock Miss Davidman showed that this command should be understood against a background of women as […]
In Spain the people are tired of politicians they don’t trust
They say that democracy also includes the rights of citizens to demonstrate. And to complain about things that are not working, to demand their rights, to express their hopelessness, and to call at the top of their lungs for someone to give them a hand – and not a hand […]