(2023-04-29). Correspondence] Gender inclusivity in India's National Family Health Survey. thelancet.com India's National Family Health Surveys (NFHSs), the most recent of which was done in 2019—21 (NFHS-5),1 have provided rich insights into women's wellbeing and agency and the progress made in enabling women to claim their rights. The NFHSs have allowed policy makers, programme implementers, and researchers to track over time women's nutritional status, access to institutional delivery services, educational status, and agency—namely, participation in household decision making, freedom of movement, control over resources, freedom from spousal violence, and other indicators reflecting voice and choice.
(2023-04-28). King Randall To Critics: 'I Fight For Young Black Men Before They Die. Y'all Have All The Energy When They're Dead'. moguldom.com Earlier this month, Black youth education advocate King Randall, the founder of the Life Preparatory School for Boys in Albany, Georgia, recently commented about victimology and structural racism, setting off a fiery Twitter debate. He tweeted, "I make no excuses for my generation being so far behind. We create so many problems in our mind. …
(2023-04-27). Teachers in England strike as National Education Union bureaucracy says pay, terms and conditions "all up for negotiation" wsws.org Tens of thousands of teachers struck in England on Wednesday in the latest action to demand better pay and conditions. Another one-day action is taking place on May 2.
(2023-04-27). UK: University of Sheffield paid private investigators £40,000 to spy on anti-war students. wsws.org As NATO's war against Russia in Ukraine escalates, Britain's ruling class is stepping up the militarisation of higher education and research institutions, already deeply integrated with the armed forces and private military contractors.
(2023-04-27). Harvard Has Become a Tax Shelter for Billionaires as Public Education Languishes. truthout.org On April 11, 2023, Harvard University announced that the billionaire hedge fund CEO Kenneth C. Griffin is donating $300 million to Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences to fund research and scholarship. Griffin will reduce his federal income tax bill by an estimated $110 million, according to the Los Angeles Times. As a faculty member at the flagship Massachusetts public university… |
(2023-04-29). Canada's Beckie calls for better funding and research to tackle injury crisis in women's game. channelnewsasia.com
(2023-04-28). People with severe obesity and a genetic pathway variant have increased risk of hypertension, Mayo Clinic research finds. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Obesity and its associated cardiometabolic issues are a major health concern in the U.S. and internationally. According to a study published in 2017, 12% of the world's adult population was affected by obesity in 2016, double the percentage from 30 years earlier. With obesity comes an increasing risk of cardiovascular disease, including stroke, congestive heart failure and myocardial infarction. Fortunately, obesity is a multifactorial disease that results from an energy balance dysregulation…
(2023-04-28). Consumer Health: Recognizing the signs of irritable bowel syndrome. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org April is IBS Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn about the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS. Research suggests that about 12% of people in the U.S. have irritable bowel syndrome, and it's more common among women than men and in people younger than 50, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Irritable bowel syndrome is a chronic condition that affects the large intestine. Even though the digestive…
(2023-04-28). The Rise of China, And the Fall of the US? globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-28). Russia-Africa Relations under "The Crisis of the Existing World Order" globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-28). NATO Wants Georgia Involved in Its Proxy War with Russia. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-28). Ukraine's Promised Counter Offensive Destined for Abject Failure. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-28). People with severe obesity and a genetic pathway variant have increased risk of hypertension, Mayo Clinic research finds. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Obesity and its associated cardiometabolic issues are a major health concern in the U.S. and internationally. According to a study published in 2017, 12% of the world's adult population was affected by obesity in 2016, double the percentage from 30 years earlier. With obesity comes an increasing risk of cardiovascular disease, including stroke, congestive heart failure and myocardial infarction. Fortunately, obesity is a multifactorial disease that results from an energy balance dysregulation…
(2023-04-28). Consumer Health: Recognizing the signs of irritable bowel syndrome. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org April is IBS Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn about the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS. Research suggests that about 12% of people in the U.S. have irritable bowel syndrome, and it's more common among women than men and in people younger than 50, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Irritable bowel syndrome is a chronic condition that affects the large intestine. Even though the digestive…
(2023-04-28). The Rise of China, And the Fall of the US? globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-28). Russia-Africa Relations under "The Crisis of the Existing World Order" globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-28). NATO Wants Georgia Involved in Its Proxy War with Russia. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-28). Ukraine's Promised Counter Offensive Destined for Abject Failure. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-28). Britain's Decision to Send Depleted Uranium Munitions to Ukraine Will Have Grim Consequences. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-28). Groups Pushing Vaccine Passports, Mandates Were Quietly Funded by Pfizer. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-28). Cuba and the Children of Chernobyl. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-28). Congressional China Panel Preps Proposals to Rapidly Arm Taiwan. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-28). The Censorship-Industrial Complex. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-28). Chinese "Police Stations" and War Propaganda. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-28). 'A Chilling Effect': Muslim Charities Fall Prey to Canada's Double Standards. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-28). US Ambassador Blasts Hungary's Call for Ceasefire in Ukraine as 'Cynical'. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-28). Bipartisan US Bill Aims to Prevent A.I. from Launching Nuclear Weapons. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-28). UK Covers Up Somaliland Massacre Report. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-28). WATCH: How to Shame the Warmongers in Mainstream Media Into Embarrassing Silence in Under Four Minutes. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-28). Video: Ukraine War: The Battle for Bakhmut. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-28). Free Speech? "First They Come for … Before They Come for You." globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-28). Windfall for a U.S. Election Software Company and a Muzzle for Anyone Who Questions Election Integrity. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-28). Boxers Are Collapsing and Dying Suddenly. More Suspicious Deaths Among High Level Athletes. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-28). Doctors Were Bribed for COVID Vaccination Coercion. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-28). Contagion: US Banking Woes, and the Rise of the Great Reset. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-28). Sri Lanka IMF Program Cannot Solve Internal Crisis. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-28). Selected Articles: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Donald Trump: The Left-Right Punch to Corporatist Fascism. globalresearch.ca 
By Corporatism, with its offspring Fascism and Nazism, is supported by totalitarians of the left and the right and its libertarian …
(2023-04-28). Is Politics All in the Mind? independentmediainstitute.org Do conservative and liberal brains work differently? What once might have been a semi-serious topic for kitchen-table discussions of political differences has burgeoned into a lively area of research for neural scientists. Increased ability to observe brain structure and function makes this possible, but the motivation comes from the sharply more partisan political landscape of …
(2023-04-28). Ukraine Will Have To Accept Chinese Mediation When Spring Offensive Fails. southfront.org 
Illustrative ImageXi advises Zelensky to resolve conflict with Russia through dialogue and negotiations. | Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher | In a phone call with Volodymyr Zelensky on April 26, Chinese President Xi Jinping identified negotiations as the only way to resolve the conflict in Ukraine, something that the Ukrainian president has been resistant to."Dialogue and negotiation is the only possible method," Chinese media quoted Xi as saying in his first known conver…
(2023-04-28). India's Minister of Science visits Imperial to strengthen research links. imperial.ac.uk India's Minister of Science and Technology Dr Jitendra Singh visited Imperial to meet researchers and students and strengthen ties with India.
(2023-04-28). This Week's Most Popular Articles. globalresearch.ca 
(2023-04-28). Chinese military opposes US' false accusations. ecns.cn The Chinese military resolutely opposes the U.S.' accusation that China is conducting secretive nuclear experiments and sensitive biological research, calling the speculation completely unfounded and purely fabricated.
(2023-04-29). Correspondence] Moving towards a precision approach for prevention of severe COVID-19. thelancet.com Replication of results in science is always reassuring, so we were pleased to see that Utkarsh Agrawal and colleagues,1 using data from all regions of the UK, identified nearly identical risk factors as we did for severe COVID-19 despite vaccination among a nationwide cohort of US veterans.2 An advantage of our study was the analysis of multiple subgroups, which allowed estimation of absolute risks on the basis of age and specific details about immune-compromised status. Advantages of the study by Agrawal and colleagues include the use of a variable that summarises the number of severe comorbidities at the patien…
(2023-04-28). Science Saturday: COVID-19 — the pandemic that's forever changed laboratory testing. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Like many people throughout the world, Matthew Binnicker, Ph.D., remembers exactly where he was and what he was doing when COVID-19 was classified as a pandemic. "Those first few months of the pandemic will be forever ingrained in my memory," he says. For Dr. Binnicker, director of Mayo Clinic's Clinical Virology Laboratory, two important dates stand out above the rest. "One was Feb. 17, 2020, when Dr. (William) Morice and I were talking about whether the department should…
(2023-04-28). Ukraine war has further fused EU, NATO: NATO deputy secretary general. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATOApril 24, 2023 Speech by NATO Deputy Secretary General Mircea GeoanƒÉ at the Paris School of International Affairs at Sciences Po University This is my amphitheater because I was a few years back, student of École nationale d'administration. The headquarters belonged to us and this is my amphitheatre, so I'm happy to go back in …
(2023-04-28). Chinese Marxist: The evaluation of Stalin is essentially an ideological struggle. thecommunists.org Wang Weiguang (born 1950) served as president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences from 2013-18. This article was originally published in Studies in Political Economy No 4, 2022, and was adapted from the online Red Culture Network. It is reproduced from Red Sails, with thanks. ***** The evaluation of Stalin's merits and demerits would …
(2023-04-28). Fordham Graduate Students Walk Out To Demand A Better Contract. popularresistance.org More than 300 graduate student workers at Fordham University's Arts and Sciences school began a three-day walkout this Monday, resulting in hundreds of canceled classes amid growing frustration with the state of their union contract negotiations with the university. | On Tuesday morning, about two dozen picketers marched in front of Fordham University's Rose Hill Campus in The Bronx, while others demonstrated at Lincoln Center Campus in Manhattan. Drivers sped along East Fordham Road toward Webster Avenue and honked their horns in support as the strikers bellowed, "Who's got the power? We got the power! What kind…
(2023-04-28). The Deadly Secret: The Science proves Covid Vaccines cause Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome & Antibody-Dependent Enhancement. expose-news.com According to real-world data from around the world, mRNA vaccines, such as the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, have been falsely hailed for their effectiveness in protecting against the alleged Sars-CoV-2 virus. …
(2023-04-28). Colorado responds to right-wing anti-trans attacks. fightbacknews.org Denver, CO — About 150 members of the trans community and their allies gathered at the Colorado State Capitol on Sunday, April 23 to protest the legislative attacks on transgender and gender non-conforming people across the country. Groups such as Denver-Aurora Community Action Committee (DACAC), Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), & Housekeys Action Network Denver (HAND) co-sponsored the event. | This protest was hosted by Rise Up Trans Rights Network, a Colorado-based network aiming to connect transgender and gender non-conforming individuals and allies who are prepared to organize direct actions whe…
(2023-04-27). What The Tech?! returns to in-person sessions helping local over-50s with tech. imperial.ac.uk Students from the Business School have worked with the Community Engagement team to help local over-50s build their confidence in using technology.
(2023-04-28). The Real Reason Disney Is Defying DeSantis. independentmediainstitute.org Florida's Republican governor Ron DeSantis is eager to cast himself as the new and improved Donald Trump. He has waged a relentless war against what he calls "woke ideology" by attacking the rights of vulnerable minorities to teach and learn history, to read literature, and to get life-saving medical care such as gender-affirming treatment and …
(2023-04-28). Stop the UTLA bureaucracy's censorship of rank-and file-teachers! wsws.org With the contract vote scheduled for next week, the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) has launched a massive campaign to censor even the most modest criticism of the tentative agreement.
(2023-04-28). Five things Los Angeles teachers need to know about the tentative agreement. wsws.org The short, self-serving "highlights" already made clear the deal is a sellout that provides no real improvements in either teacher compensation or school conditions. The release of the full details of the agreement this past Tuesday only further confirms this.
(2023-04-28). Biden: Teachers and kids must be safe from gunfire in schools. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON—Teachers and kids must be safe from gunfire in schools, which is why Congress should pass strong gun-control legislation, Democratic President Joe Biden says. Biden hit that theme while honoring the National Teacher of the Year, union member Rebecka Peterson, a high school math and calculus teacher from Tulsa, Okla. In a White House Rose …
(2023-04-27). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org Health workers strike in Andalusia, Castille and Leon and Madrid, Spain against staff shortages and for more funding; strikes in Iran spreading over pay and conditions to include oil, power plant and steelworkers; teachers in Akwa Ibom State resume walkouts over pensions and promotions…
