The past 15 years are the longest period of sustained conflict in America’s history. Never before have we asked so few to do so much for so long. While the Departments of Defense (DoD) and Veterans Affairs (VA) do what they can to support our combat veterans, it simply isn’t reasonable to think they will […]
Tips For Diabetics
Article by Barbara Kasey Smith’s Corner of the World I’m a Type 2 Diabetic and I’m constantly searching for information that I feel will shed some additional light on my knowledge of this disease. If you’re not already aware, diabetes doubles a person’s risk of heart disease and also of having a stroke. This disease […]
5 Things Seniors Should Know About Wound Care
Seniors, and those who take care of them, are all too familiar with the frequency of wounds, especially chronic wounds. It’s common for seniors to get wounds, which arise from a wide variety of causes. In fact, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) reports that chronic diseases that compromise skin integrity are becoming increasingly common […]
Australian troops accused of cutting the hands’ off dead militant in Afghanistan
On April 28, 2013, during an operation carried out by coalition troops near the southeastern province of Zabul, Afghanistan – members of an elite Australian military unit reportedly cut the hands off at least one dead militant killed on the battlefield. The stated reason for the mutilation was so that Australian military members in Turin […]
Bosnia:Identifying War Victim’s Remains
By David Nelson Painstaking task of identifying remains of war victims and matching them to living relatives. The bones of a young man in his twenties rest on a metal table in the Bosnian town of Tuzla. He has no name, but the International Commission on Missing Persons hopes to give him one soon. The skeletal […]
Bitter Sweet or Toxic? Indigenous people, diabetes and the burden of pollution
WINNIPEG—Diabetes is now widely regarded as the 21st century epidemic. With some 284 million people currently diagnosed with the disease, it’s certainly no exaggeration—least of all for Indigenous people. According to the State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples Report by the United Nations, more than 50 per cent of Indigenous adults over the age of […]