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Uyghur pressure
Oped, Postbag, Published on 02/04/2025
» Re: "Uyghur trip 'not fake': Thais visit deportees in Xinjiang region", (BP, March 21).
Time to prepare for 'Disease X'
Oped, Tom Achoki, Lawrence Were & Ahmed Ogwell, Published on 04/06/2024
» On Dec 12, 2019, a group of patients in Wuhan, China, started showing symptoms of an atypical pneumonia-like illness that did not respond well to standard treatments. Ninety days later, with more than 118,000 cases reported in 114 countries and 4,291 deaths, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Covid-19 a pandemic.
How AI could reshape world of medicine
Oped, Junaid Nabi, Published on 19/03/2024
» On a recent international trip, I found myself running late to the airport. Not being fluent in the local language, I used a translation app that enabled me to convey the urgency of my situation to the taxi driver. The app's camera feature also allowed me to understand the road signs, providing real-time updates.
Kids bear brunt of climate change
Oped, Roland Angerer, Published on 20/12/2022
» Rise in temperature and weather shifts due to climate change have a gruesome effect on human life and health globally. It is less known, however, that children are disproportionally affected due to climate change. Around 2.2 billion children are at extremely high risk of being affected by climate change, according to the assessment made by Unicef in 2020. Even the levels of violence and exploitation against children tend to increase with the impact of the ensuing disasters, as documented in a recent white paper by Barnfonden, a member of the ChildFund Alliance in Sweden.
A child killer meets its match
Oped, Keith Klugman, Published on 22/11/2022
» Like many others, I spent much of the last few years in isolation to avoid getting sick. And now we are learning that this widespread disappearing act produced some unexpected side effects. In particular, infections from once-common illnesses -- like influenza and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) -- plummeted.
Baby factories
Oped, Postbag, Published on 24/08/2022
» Re: "Low fertility tops 'Smart Families' agenda", (BP, Aug 23).
Moral hazards
Oped, Postbag, Published on 02/07/2022
» Re: "All for pride, pride for all", (Life, June 27).
Hazing over
Oped, Postbag, Published on 11/06/2022
» Re: "University to end hazing abuses," (BP, June 9).
Breathing life into medical oxygen
Oped, Leith Greenslade, Published on 18/05/2022
» Covid-19 has taken at least 18 million lives by some accounts, and it is anyone's guess how many of those deaths were due to a lack of medical oxygen. Governments don't want to talk about the issue, because that could mean admitting that thousands -- or even hundreds of thousands -- of their citizens died unnecessarily. But unless health systems take steps to ensure a sufficient supply of oxygen in the future, they will be risking a repeat of the past two years.
Covid and students' mental health
Oped, Douglas Rhein, Published on 22/03/2022
» As all readers know, in late 2019, the Wuhan Health Commission in China reported a cluster of pneumonia cases of unknown aetiology. These were later named the novel coronavirus.