Ukrainian MP Warns of Rise in Illness, Death from Impending War-Winter Combination 09/12/2022 Maayan Hoffman A four-year-old asthmatic girl from Ukraine was forced to relocate to a gas station earlier this week where she could connect her ventilator, after a Russian missile attack cut off her city’s electricity supply, leaving her without any other means of receiving life-saving oxygen. Pictures of her frightened, frozen eyes made social media. But according […] Continue reading -> Wendy Reaser: Struggling with Obesity in Canada 03/12/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more One time, as Wendy Reaser was visiting the emergency room, she heard a specialist describing her as “fat and lazy,” adding that she did not want to put the work into being healthy. This experience, as well as many other […] Continue reading -> How Does Corruption Affect Health Systems Around the World? 02/12/2022 Editorial team When Patty García was a medical student in Peru some 30 years ago, she was already aware of the detrimental effect of corruption on health systems. “Back then, the corruption related to the distribution of drugs,” Garcia, who would go on to become her country’s Health Minister in 2016, shares during the latest episode of […] Continue reading -> Samuel Kumwanje, Advocating for NCD Patients in Malawi 01/12/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more When Samuel Kumwanje was diagnosed with a kidney disorder in 2004, his home country Malawi had only one dialysis unit located in the capital Lilongwe, about 330 km from the city of Balaka where he lived. “This is the time […] Continue reading -> Betsy Rodriguez: Giving a Voice to those Who Live with Chronic Conditions 01/12/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more For many years, Betsy Rodriguez was terrified that she could lose her daughter Carmen to hypoglycemia at any moment. As a girl, Carmen was diagnosed as having type 1 diabetes. “I cannot count the hours I’ve spent dealing with insurance […] Continue reading -> Brenda Chitindi: Struggling with Multiple NCDs in Zambia 30/11/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more When Brenda Chitindi was growing up, one of many children in a family in a rural village of Zambia, she had no idea that her father’s habit of smoking would have a negative effect on her health. “We lived in […] Continue reading -> Seema Bali: Coping With Disease And Debt While Raising A Family In India 30/11/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more In March 2011, Seema Bali, a mother of two from India, was recovering from a hysterectomy. However, just as she went back to work, her husband Anand’s health suddenly deteriorated. In the following months, this crisis forced her to assume […] Continue reading -> How One Man With COPD Suffered Through COVID-19 29/11/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more Jaime Barba, from Mexico, developed Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) after smoking for 32 years. When COVID-19 struck, the country converted the hospital at which Barba received treatment into a COVID facility, leaving him no place to be treated if […] Continue reading -> How Palliative Care Made One Woman ‘Whole Again’ 29/11/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more Joining Pallium India in 2014 gave Ashla Rani back her life. Rani fell off a moving train and suffered a spinal cord injury that left her bed-bound and dependent on others for almost everything. She became depressed, asking herself, ‘Why […] Continue reading -> There are a Wide Range of Treatments for Obesity, but Many People Cannot Afford Care 28/11/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more Amber Huett-Garcia is trying to drive global change for affordable treatment, care and support for individuals suffering from obesity. A resident of the United States and born into a family suffering from generational obesity, she weighed 101 pounds by the […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Wendy Reaser: Struggling with Obesity in Canada 03/12/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more One time, as Wendy Reaser was visiting the emergency room, she heard a specialist describing her as “fat and lazy,” adding that she did not want to put the work into being healthy. This experience, as well as many other […] Continue reading -> How Does Corruption Affect Health Systems Around the World? 02/12/2022 Editorial team When Patty García was a medical student in Peru some 30 years ago, she was already aware of the detrimental effect of corruption on health systems. “Back then, the corruption related to the distribution of drugs,” Garcia, who would go on to become her country’s Health Minister in 2016, shares during the latest episode of […] Continue reading -> Samuel Kumwanje, Advocating for NCD Patients in Malawi 01/12/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more When Samuel Kumwanje was diagnosed with a kidney disorder in 2004, his home country Malawi had only one dialysis unit located in the capital Lilongwe, about 330 km from the city of Balaka where he lived. “This is the time […] Continue reading -> Betsy Rodriguez: Giving a Voice to those Who Live with Chronic Conditions 01/12/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more For many years, Betsy Rodriguez was terrified that she could lose her daughter Carmen to hypoglycemia at any moment. As a girl, Carmen was diagnosed as having type 1 diabetes. “I cannot count the hours I’ve spent dealing with insurance […] Continue reading -> Brenda Chitindi: Struggling with Multiple NCDs in Zambia 30/11/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more When Brenda Chitindi was growing up, one of many children in a family in a rural village of Zambia, she had no idea that her father’s habit of smoking would have a negative effect on her health. “We lived in […] Continue reading -> Seema Bali: Coping With Disease And Debt While Raising A Family In India 30/11/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more In March 2011, Seema Bali, a mother of two from India, was recovering from a hysterectomy. However, just as she went back to work, her husband Anand’s health suddenly deteriorated. In the following months, this crisis forced her to assume […] Continue reading -> How One Man With COPD Suffered Through COVID-19 29/11/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more Jaime Barba, from Mexico, developed Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) after smoking for 32 years. When COVID-19 struck, the country converted the hospital at which Barba received treatment into a COVID facility, leaving him no place to be treated if […] Continue reading -> How Palliative Care Made One Woman ‘Whole Again’ 29/11/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more Joining Pallium India in 2014 gave Ashla Rani back her life. Rani fell off a moving train and suffered a spinal cord injury that left her bed-bound and dependent on others for almost everything. She became depressed, asking herself, ‘Why […] Continue reading -> There are a Wide Range of Treatments for Obesity, but Many People Cannot Afford Care 28/11/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more Amber Huett-Garcia is trying to drive global change for affordable treatment, care and support for individuals suffering from obesity. A resident of the United States and born into a family suffering from generational obesity, she weighed 101 pounds by the […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
How Does Corruption Affect Health Systems Around the World? 02/12/2022 Editorial team When Patty García was a medical student in Peru some 30 years ago, she was already aware of the detrimental effect of corruption on health systems. “Back then, the corruption related to the distribution of drugs,” Garcia, who would go on to become her country’s Health Minister in 2016, shares during the latest episode of […] Continue reading -> Samuel Kumwanje, Advocating for NCD Patients in Malawi 01/12/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more When Samuel Kumwanje was diagnosed with a kidney disorder in 2004, his home country Malawi had only one dialysis unit located in the capital Lilongwe, about 330 km from the city of Balaka where he lived. “This is the time […] Continue reading -> Betsy Rodriguez: Giving a Voice to those Who Live with Chronic Conditions 01/12/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more For many years, Betsy Rodriguez was terrified that she could lose her daughter Carmen to hypoglycemia at any moment. As a girl, Carmen was diagnosed as having type 1 diabetes. “I cannot count the hours I’ve spent dealing with insurance […] Continue reading -> Brenda Chitindi: Struggling with Multiple NCDs in Zambia 30/11/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more When Brenda Chitindi was growing up, one of many children in a family in a rural village of Zambia, she had no idea that her father’s habit of smoking would have a negative effect on her health. “We lived in […] Continue reading -> Seema Bali: Coping With Disease And Debt While Raising A Family In India 30/11/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more In March 2011, Seema Bali, a mother of two from India, was recovering from a hysterectomy. However, just as she went back to work, her husband Anand’s health suddenly deteriorated. In the following months, this crisis forced her to assume […] Continue reading -> How One Man With COPD Suffered Through COVID-19 29/11/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more Jaime Barba, from Mexico, developed Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) after smoking for 32 years. When COVID-19 struck, the country converted the hospital at which Barba received treatment into a COVID facility, leaving him no place to be treated if […] Continue reading -> How Palliative Care Made One Woman ‘Whole Again’ 29/11/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more Joining Pallium India in 2014 gave Ashla Rani back her life. Rani fell off a moving train and suffered a spinal cord injury that left her bed-bound and dependent on others for almost everything. She became depressed, asking herself, ‘Why […] Continue reading -> There are a Wide Range of Treatments for Obesity, but Many People Cannot Afford Care 28/11/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more Amber Huett-Garcia is trying to drive global change for affordable treatment, care and support for individuals suffering from obesity. A resident of the United States and born into a family suffering from generational obesity, she weighed 101 pounds by the […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Samuel Kumwanje, Advocating for NCD Patients in Malawi 01/12/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more When Samuel Kumwanje was diagnosed with a kidney disorder in 2004, his home country Malawi had only one dialysis unit located in the capital Lilongwe, about 330 km from the city of Balaka where he lived. “This is the time […] Continue reading -> Betsy Rodriguez: Giving a Voice to those Who Live with Chronic Conditions 01/12/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more For many years, Betsy Rodriguez was terrified that she could lose her daughter Carmen to hypoglycemia at any moment. As a girl, Carmen was diagnosed as having type 1 diabetes. “I cannot count the hours I’ve spent dealing with insurance […] Continue reading -> Brenda Chitindi: Struggling with Multiple NCDs in Zambia 30/11/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more When Brenda Chitindi was growing up, one of many children in a family in a rural village of Zambia, she had no idea that her father’s habit of smoking would have a negative effect on her health. “We lived in […] Continue reading -> Seema Bali: Coping With Disease And Debt While Raising A Family In India 30/11/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more In March 2011, Seema Bali, a mother of two from India, was recovering from a hysterectomy. However, just as she went back to work, her husband Anand’s health suddenly deteriorated. In the following months, this crisis forced her to assume […] Continue reading -> How One Man With COPD Suffered Through COVID-19 29/11/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more Jaime Barba, from Mexico, developed Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) after smoking for 32 years. When COVID-19 struck, the country converted the hospital at which Barba received treatment into a COVID facility, leaving him no place to be treated if […] Continue reading -> How Palliative Care Made One Woman ‘Whole Again’ 29/11/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more Joining Pallium India in 2014 gave Ashla Rani back her life. Rani fell off a moving train and suffered a spinal cord injury that left her bed-bound and dependent on others for almost everything. She became depressed, asking herself, ‘Why […] Continue reading -> There are a Wide Range of Treatments for Obesity, but Many People Cannot Afford Care 28/11/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more Amber Huett-Garcia is trying to drive global change for affordable treatment, care and support for individuals suffering from obesity. A resident of the United States and born into a family suffering from generational obesity, she weighed 101 pounds by the […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Betsy Rodriguez: Giving a Voice to those Who Live with Chronic Conditions 01/12/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more For many years, Betsy Rodriguez was terrified that she could lose her daughter Carmen to hypoglycemia at any moment. As a girl, Carmen was diagnosed as having type 1 diabetes. “I cannot count the hours I’ve spent dealing with insurance […] Continue reading -> Brenda Chitindi: Struggling with Multiple NCDs in Zambia 30/11/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more When Brenda Chitindi was growing up, one of many children in a family in a rural village of Zambia, she had no idea that her father’s habit of smoking would have a negative effect on her health. “We lived in […] Continue reading -> Seema Bali: Coping With Disease And Debt While Raising A Family In India 30/11/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more In March 2011, Seema Bali, a mother of two from India, was recovering from a hysterectomy. However, just as she went back to work, her husband Anand’s health suddenly deteriorated. In the following months, this crisis forced her to assume […] Continue reading -> How One Man With COPD Suffered Through COVID-19 29/11/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more Jaime Barba, from Mexico, developed Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) after smoking for 32 years. When COVID-19 struck, the country converted the hospital at which Barba received treatment into a COVID facility, leaving him no place to be treated if […] Continue reading -> How Palliative Care Made One Woman ‘Whole Again’ 29/11/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more Joining Pallium India in 2014 gave Ashla Rani back her life. Rani fell off a moving train and suffered a spinal cord injury that left her bed-bound and dependent on others for almost everything. She became depressed, asking herself, ‘Why […] Continue reading -> There are a Wide Range of Treatments for Obesity, but Many People Cannot Afford Care 28/11/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more Amber Huett-Garcia is trying to drive global change for affordable treatment, care and support for individuals suffering from obesity. A resident of the United States and born into a family suffering from generational obesity, she weighed 101 pounds by the […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Brenda Chitindi: Struggling with Multiple NCDs in Zambia 30/11/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more When Brenda Chitindi was growing up, one of many children in a family in a rural village of Zambia, she had no idea that her father’s habit of smoking would have a negative effect on her health. “We lived in […] Continue reading -> Seema Bali: Coping With Disease And Debt While Raising A Family In India 30/11/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more In March 2011, Seema Bali, a mother of two from India, was recovering from a hysterectomy. However, just as she went back to work, her husband Anand’s health suddenly deteriorated. In the following months, this crisis forced her to assume […] Continue reading -> How One Man With COPD Suffered Through COVID-19 29/11/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more Jaime Barba, from Mexico, developed Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) after smoking for 32 years. When COVID-19 struck, the country converted the hospital at which Barba received treatment into a COVID facility, leaving him no place to be treated if […] Continue reading -> How Palliative Care Made One Woman ‘Whole Again’ 29/11/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more Joining Pallium India in 2014 gave Ashla Rani back her life. Rani fell off a moving train and suffered a spinal cord injury that left her bed-bound and dependent on others for almost everything. She became depressed, asking herself, ‘Why […] Continue reading -> There are a Wide Range of Treatments for Obesity, but Many People Cannot Afford Care 28/11/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more Amber Huett-Garcia is trying to drive global change for affordable treatment, care and support for individuals suffering from obesity. A resident of the United States and born into a family suffering from generational obesity, she weighed 101 pounds by the […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Seema Bali: Coping With Disease And Debt While Raising A Family In India 30/11/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more In March 2011, Seema Bali, a mother of two from India, was recovering from a hysterectomy. However, just as she went back to work, her husband Anand’s health suddenly deteriorated. In the following months, this crisis forced her to assume […] Continue reading -> How One Man With COPD Suffered Through COVID-19 29/11/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more Jaime Barba, from Mexico, developed Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) after smoking for 32 years. When COVID-19 struck, the country converted the hospital at which Barba received treatment into a COVID facility, leaving him no place to be treated if […] Continue reading -> How Palliative Care Made One Woman ‘Whole Again’ 29/11/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more Joining Pallium India in 2014 gave Ashla Rani back her life. Rani fell off a moving train and suffered a spinal cord injury that left her bed-bound and dependent on others for almost everything. She became depressed, asking herself, ‘Why […] Continue reading -> There are a Wide Range of Treatments for Obesity, but Many People Cannot Afford Care 28/11/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more Amber Huett-Garcia is trying to drive global change for affordable treatment, care and support for individuals suffering from obesity. A resident of the United States and born into a family suffering from generational obesity, she weighed 101 pounds by the […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
How One Man With COPD Suffered Through COVID-19 29/11/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more Jaime Barba, from Mexico, developed Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) after smoking for 32 years. When COVID-19 struck, the country converted the hospital at which Barba received treatment into a COVID facility, leaving him no place to be treated if […] Continue reading -> How Palliative Care Made One Woman ‘Whole Again’ 29/11/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more Joining Pallium India in 2014 gave Ashla Rani back her life. Rani fell off a moving train and suffered a spinal cord injury that left her bed-bound and dependent on others for almost everything. She became depressed, asking herself, ‘Why […] Continue reading -> There are a Wide Range of Treatments for Obesity, but Many People Cannot Afford Care 28/11/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more Amber Huett-Garcia is trying to drive global change for affordable treatment, care and support for individuals suffering from obesity. A resident of the United States and born into a family suffering from generational obesity, she weighed 101 pounds by the […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
How Palliative Care Made One Woman ‘Whole Again’ 29/11/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more Joining Pallium India in 2014 gave Ashla Rani back her life. Rani fell off a moving train and suffered a spinal cord injury that left her bed-bound and dependent on others for almost everything. She became depressed, asking herself, ‘Why […] Continue reading -> There are a Wide Range of Treatments for Obesity, but Many People Cannot Afford Care 28/11/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more Amber Huett-Garcia is trying to drive global change for affordable treatment, care and support for individuals suffering from obesity. A resident of the United States and born into a family suffering from generational obesity, she weighed 101 pounds by the […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
There are a Wide Range of Treatments for Obesity, but Many People Cannot Afford Care 28/11/2022 Editorial team A special project celebrating the fifth anniversary of “Our Views, Our Voices” | Learn more Amber Huett-Garcia is trying to drive global change for affordable treatment, care and support for individuals suffering from obesity. A resident of the United States and born into a family suffering from generational obesity, she weighed 101 pounds by the […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts