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Opinion | Virginia health commissioner wakes up to structural racism in disparities
Placeholder while article actions load Virginia’s top health official seems to have missed some of the voluminous research in recent decades demonstrating the link between racism and disparate health treatment and outcomes among African Americans. Actually, he seems to have missed virtually all of it. After spending his first five months on the job dismissing, …
Team Biden ready to hand Russia and China vaccine technology for free
The Biden administration is about to give one of the biggest US technological breakthroughs of the 21st century to Russia and China — free of charge. That’s not the administration’s goal, of course. But it’s the inevitable result of a proposed deal that US negotiators recently struck in Geneva, Switzerland, at the World Trade Organization. The pact would …
Gun violence is a solvable public health crisis | Editorials
This editorial was published by the Dallas Morning News. As the murdered children of Uvalde are laid to rest this week, our nation needs to muster the courage and political will to treat rising gun violence and mass shootings as an acute public health crisis. When auto accidents claimed a large number of lives, government …
Guest Column: Mental health is health. The house you live in matters more than you think. | Opinion
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and where we live impacts our health more than you think. A sound, affordable home is much more than a structure. It directly affects emotional and physical health. With one in four people in Northeast Texas living in unhealthy, dangerous, cost-burdened or overcrowded homes, housing stability and its connection …
What about the environment? | Inquirer Opinion
Los Baños, Laguna—In March 2019, a young Cuvier’s beaked whale was found on the verge of death along the shores of Mabini, Davao de Oro, and when a necropsy was performed, nearly 40 kilos of plastic was found in its stomach—including rice sacks and grocery bags. “The plastic in some areas was so compact it …
Technology and Society: Technology Includes the Internet | Opinion
Most of the topics addressed in this column have focused on the Internet which is just one of many technologies. To begin, let’s be sure about what “technology” really is. According to Britannica, it is “the application of scientific knowledge to the practical aims of human life or, as it is sometimes phrased, to the …
Opinion: Environmental justice delayed has been justice denied
Looking north at Waterfront Amphitheater in Riverbank State Park, New York City, with George Washington Bridge in the background. Credit: Magnus Bäck/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 It has taken a very long time, but environmental justice has moved to the center of the environmental policy agenda. Here in New York City, the environmental justice movement …
Philippines Votes for President With Ex-Dictator’s Son Leading Opinion Polls
Millions of Filipinos are heading to the polls on Monday to choose their next president in a pivotal election that could bring the son of the country’s former dictator to power more than 3½ decades after his father’s kleptocratic regime was overthrown in a popular uprising. Ferdinand Marcos Jr., 64 years old, held a commanding …
Wellness Wednesdays: A balancing act of health | Opinion
“Drink this everyday to lose 12 pounds …” When people hear “fitness and nutrition,” their minds often jump to crazy diets and workouts. However, this is not the lens that we should use to view nutrition and fitness. We live in a society that constantly promotes the newest diet trends and juice cleanses. The societal …
Republicans Could Lead on Mental Health Treatment
A homeless man holds a sign asking for money by an entrance to a subway station in New York, Oct. 9, 2015. Photo: Mark Lennihan/Associated Press Tucked away in the gun law President Biden just signed is a provision increasing funding for preventive outpatient treatment for mental illness. This is an important step toward solving …