Old-Age Poverty

News / 28 September 2019, 07:26am / Sheree Bega Seventeen-year-old Cape Town climate activist Ayakha Melithafa. The world is starting to listen to us and more old people have stopped seeing what we are doing as a rebellious act, said 17-year-old Cape Town c…

I spent the last few hours before I emigrated stuck in a short story about emigrating. All my life Ive tried to avoid being defined by small details the way people always are in short stories. Like the way my parents drove up in their Sunday clothes to bring …

Is today's adult obesity epidemic the result of children in the 1970s and 1980s consuming excessive amounts of sugar? New research uses a mathematical model to find the answer. In recent years, obesity rates in the United States have skyrocketed. To be spec…

Despite years of steady advice and guidance on healthy eating, a 'report card' on the American diet shows adults are still consuming too many low-quality carbohydrates and more saturated fat than recommended, according to researchers at the Friedman School of…

Chancellor of the Exchequer/finance minister, John McDonnell, speaking. Photo: Kenneth Surin. I am in Brighton, UK, attending the Labour party annual conference as a member-delegate. It is my first party conference, even though Ive supported Labour for decad…

IMAGE: An 18-year 'report card' on the American diet shows adults are eating too many low-quality carbohydrates. view more  Credit: Audrey Jenkins/Tufts University BOSTON (Sept. 24, 2019, 11:00 a.m. ET)--Despite years of steady advice and guidance on heal…

The number of 'millionaires' rows' has fallen by 10 per cent as property values have dropped over the past year, an analysis found yesterday. It showed there are 1,805 fewer roads where houses have an average value of £1million or more. The research found t…

On what she found when started researching adoption Before I actually started the process and I knew I was ready to do so, my go to is information always. So I'm on the Internet. I'm at the library. And so even before I had finished the process, I realized, …

News Brief by Kip Hansen JAMA Network Open,  an online open-access journal of the American Medical Association,  has published  Climate Change and Health —  Call for Papers from authors  Drs. Frederick P. Rivara and Stephan D. Fihn, Editor and Deputy Editor …

Hustlers lives comfortably in the grey. Lorene Scafarai‘s movie shows the good deeds and the bad and the right and the wrong, never telling the audience exactly how to feel about it all. The crimes speak for themselves, but Scafaria keeps the characters and t…