By Patrick Ngassa Piotie, Chairperson, Diabetes Alliance; Co-founder, Diabetes Research Centre, University of Pretoria
Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) recently released its report on deaths that occurred in 2024. The headline findings contain a sobering, recurring truth: diabetes was once again the country’s leading underlying natural cause of death.
In 2024 alone, 28,767 people died from complications caused by diabetes, accounting for 6.1% of all deaths nationwide. That is an average of nearly 79 deaths every day.
Diabetes also claimed the top spot in 2022…
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By Benedict Carpenter van Barthold, Lecturer, School of Art & Design, Nottingham Trent University
An exhibition that will leave most with a deep appreciation for Renoir as an artistic innovator and painter of the first rank.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Immigration Customs Enforcement processing center which consists of East and West wings, located in Adelanto, California on May 18, 2025. © 2025 Getty Images The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on September 21 detained Mark Mabasa, the 40-year old son of slain Philippine journalist Percival “Percy Lapid” Mabasa, who was shot to death in Metro Manila in October 2022. Mark Mabasa had received death threats in the Philippines following the murder of his father and had sought asylum in the US.Mabasa is being held at the Adelantado…
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By Mong Palatino
"It has not only been used to confine peaceful gatherings and demonstrations to Freedom Park, but increasingly, the very use of Freedom Park has been restricted and denied."
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By Amnesty International
Germain Rukuki – Burundi On 30 June 2021, Burundian human rights defender Germain Rukuki was released from prison four years into a 32-year sentence. He had been found guilty of a number of sham charges relating to his human rights work. He was jailed before getting a chance to hold his youngest child, born just […] The post As Write for Rights turns 25, here are 7 times it helped to deliver justice appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Amnesty International
In response to the state of Tennessee’s senseless pursuit of the death penalty and the attempted execution of Christa Pike, Justin Mazzola, Deputy Director of Research with Amnesty International USA said: “Tennessee’s attempted, but botched, execution of Christa Pike was an extreme display of cruelty and the latest reminder that the death penalty is the […] The post After botched execution attempt, Tennessee must commute Christa Pike’s death sentence as a first step appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Jean-Christophe Blanchard, Docteur en histoire, ingénieur d'études au Centre de Recherche Universitaire Lorrain d'Histoire, Université de Lorraine
The International Geography festival puts Saint-Dié on the map, but its map-making history dates back to the early 16th century, when the French town in the Vosges was a hotspot for scholarly geographical research.
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By Barbara Pierscionek, Professor of Eye Health and New Technologies for Sight Improvement, Anglia Ruskin University
More than 2,000 years ago, the Greek mathematician Euclid began his treatise Optics with an assumption that now sounds peculiar: visual rays travelled out from the eye towards the objects we see.
We now know that vision works the other way around. But modern imaging has given the old idea an unexpected twist: light directed into the eye and scattered back from the retina can reveal information about health elsewhere in the body.
One of the technologies making this possible is
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By Walid Omara, Senior Lecturer in Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnology, School Of Biosciences and Chemistry, Sheffield Hallam University
For many people, a urinary tract infection (UTI) doesn’t really end when the antibiotics run out. The burning and constant trips to the toilet fade, then return weeks or months later.
UTIs affect more than 400 million people worldwide each year, according to a global analysis of UTI incidence. More than half of adult women will have at least one in their lifetime, and studies…
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By Calum Smith, Research Fellow in Population Health, University of Oxford
Carolin Kilian, Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark
The new Premier League season is now well underway and for many football fans, that means crowded pubs, beers with friends and betting on favourite teams. These rituals can often feel like a natural part of the game.
But football’s close association with alcohol and gambling did not emerge by accident. Over decades, sponsorship deals, advertising campaigns…
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