The world’s population right now is exploding. The United Nations predicted that from 5.3 billion people today, the world’s population is expected to swell to 9.2 billion in 2050, assuming that global fertility among women will drop from 2.05 to 2. Worldwide, the population is growing at 75 million people per year. From 2000 to […]
Rubber tires as sanctuary for marine species
Seldom does it occur to us that disposed rubber tires believed now piling high in most parts of the world have many uses to protect the environment. One of these is putting them altogether in five or six used tires with nylon ropes or galvanized wires to hold them. And then dump these tires into […]
Racial discrimination vs illegal immigrants
It is frustrating to see how some, if not many, of the immigration rallyists were subjected to harsh treatment by the members of the Los Angeles Police Department. The United States is a country that strictly subscribes to the tenets of international human rights. But last Tuesday’s event, wherein thousands of people marched through the […]
Patient’s survival rests on time
Wake up in an ungodly hour of the night to find yourself gasping for breath. Or it could be your abdominal pain is unbearable. Or that your blood pressure shoots up to an unprecedented level? Without health insurance, whose monthly premiums are skyrocketing high and seemed unaffordable to those who only earn a measely monthly income, […]
Lung diseases kill 400,000 American yearly
Lung-related diseases kill as much as 400,000 Americans each year, the American Lung Association reported. And more than 35 million Americans ar suffering from chronic lung diseases. Among the many types of lung diseases include asthma, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, pneumonia, influenza, tuberculosis, lung cancer, respiratory failure, edema, embolism, hypertension, fibrosis, sarcoidosis, mesothelioma and asbestosis. The […]
Dog meat, anyone?
The idea alone of eating dog meat scares a lot people, especially those in the West, whose appetite for this animal seems remote considering that they are man’s best friend. The question that would always crop up in their minds is that why should we kill dogs for meat purposes? Some kind of a big […]