Health
The Second Shift
India’s push to digitize public health care has quietly shifted a heavy, unpaid workload onto its women community health workers, who are technically volunteers. Juggling multiple apps, poor connectivity, surveillance tools and inadequate training, these women spend long hours on their phones — often at great personal, financial and social cost.
At Your Cervix
In 1889, French surgeon Samuel Pozzi, inspired by an American Civil War-era bullet extractor, invented an instrument to ease gynecological exams and provide better care for women. Despite causing debilitating pain, it is still used worldwide 135 years later.
Traditional Medicine Struggles in Nigeria
Although most of Nigeria’s medicinal plants are not expected to go extinct anytime soon, their characteristics are already showing signs of abnormalities that are changing their medicinal value, according to experts.
Classifying Middle East Americans as ‘White’ Undermines the Community’s Health
The goal would be to have a demographic identifier that places Middle East, North Africa and the Mediterranean Basin as a separate category in the census, therefore allowing more medical and health-related research to occur in these populations and adequate funding for targeted interventions.
In Treatment: Therapy in the Middle East Needs a Non-Western Approach
The convention under Western psychology is to treat a client as solely responsible for their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. By contrast, in collectivist societies the “Self” is usually treated in relationship to family members and the community.