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The Apple store in Santa Monica, Calif., is seen Thursday, May 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon) Mercedes White By attaching an $8 lens to his iPhone with a piece of double-sided tape, Canadian doctors produced a field microscope that can be...
(Shutterstock) Mercedes White In his 2010 New York Times column Paul Krugman, an American economist and Nobel Prize winner, made an observation about some of the differences between the rich and the poor when it comes to electoral politics: “You...
Mercedes White The biggest cuts to mental health services in the history of this nation came during the Great Recession, according to a report from the National Alliance on Mental Illness, which shows how states slashed an unprecedented $1.8...
A Senegalese woman holds her baby shortly after giving birth in her home, a mud hut. (Mercedes White, C/O Dana Allison, Women’s World Health Initiative.) Mercedes White If there is one thing every mother knows, it is that babies arrive...
A Tuesday June 5, 2012 photo provided by the US navy shows more than 1,200 service members view the “No Zebras, No Excuses” performance at the U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay outdoor downtown lyceum. The production challenges sexual assault...
A recent report in The New York Times suggests that Denmark is re-thinking its generous welfare state, facing increasing pressures to provide for an aging population. (Shutterstock) Eric Schulzke A recent report in The New York Times suggests...
Mercedes White If there is one thing Carolyn Miles knows, it’s that mothers — no matter if they’re in the United States, Pakistan or Nigeria — are fundamentally the same. “Every night, millions of mothers around the world lean over...
Activists say microsavings can also reach the poorest of the poor, far outside the reaches of the formal banking system, reported the Washington Post. Mercedes White Bill Gates once said, “If you are poor by birth, it is not your fault....
Infant mortality rates in America fell by 12 percent between 2005 and 2011, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (Mustafa Quraishi, Associated Press) Mercedes White Infant mortality rates in America...
In this July 12, 2012 photo, two women wait in an exam room at Nuestra Clinica Del Valle, in San Juan, Texas. Health care policy wonks were sent into a bit of a dither this week when the New England Journal of Medicine published a study finding...
