By C. Michael White, Distinguished Professor of Pharmacy Practice, University of Connecticut
The drug information sheets that the FDA requires companies to produce are living documents that get updated with new information.
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By Gregory Squires, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, George Washington University
Ira Goldstein, Lecturer in the Urban Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania
An unbiased appraisal is key to ensuring that homebuyers and those seeking to refinance a mortgage can do so under fair and equal conditions.
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By R. Lincoln Hines, Assistant Professor of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology
China has created more space debris than any other country. But as its space program grows, it has more to lose from a collision than ever before.
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By Thomas Delawarde-SaÏas, Professeur de psychologie, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
We must move away from the binary diagnosis of post-partum depression and think of difficulties during the transition to parenthood as relational experiences, not a disorder.
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By Leslie Swartz, Professor, Stellenbosch University
Deborah Posel, Professor of Sociology, University of Cape Town
Deborah Posel, the founding director of the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, an interdisciplinary research institute in the humanities and social sciences in South Africa, has published a new book, Darker Shade of Pale: Shtetl to Colony. Using a combination of personal memoir and historical inquiry, it retraces the early 20th century migration of Jewish people from the Russian Empire to colonial South Africa through one man’s life.
The book uncovers the…
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By Bradley Rink, Associate Professor of Human Geography, University of the Western Cape
Gina Porter, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Durham University
Being mobile means people can get access to opportunities and take part in economic and social life. Mobility, in all its forms, is critical for cities to thrive.
Recent studies highlight what most African city dwellers already know: walking is the main way of getting around, and essential for daily life. This is true for people who live in low-income neighbourhoods across the world. When people lack money for taxi,…
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By Anthony Turton, Professor: Centre for Environmental Management, University of the Free State
Control over water underpins national security, economic stability and social wellbeing, as disputes over rivers from southern Africa to the Nile show.
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By Bonnie Campbell, Professeure émérite en économie politique. Département de science politique de l'Université du Québec à Montréal., Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Moussa Doumbo, Enseignant-Chercheur, Faculté des Sciences Économiques et de Gestion, Université des Sciences sociales et de Gestion de Bamako
Gold mining operations recently restarted at the Loulo-Gounkoto complex in western Mali after being shut down for several months. In January, the Malian government started blocking exports from the mine owned by Canada-based Barrick Mining (formerly called Barrick Gold).
The government blocked exports and took control of three tonnes of bullion following…
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By Jasper Kenter, Professorial Research Fellow, Deliberative Ecological Economics, Aberystwyth University
The UK budget is usually a story of growth forecasts, borrowing levels and fiscal discipline. But ahead of this month’s high-stakes event, growth has been slower than expected. At the same time, as households struggle with living costs, the climate crisis intensifies and inequality persists, growth might seem like too narrow a focus.
Conventional economics – with its reliance on GDP growth – cannot respond to the global “polycrisis”. This…
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By Bamo Nouri, Honorary Research Fellow, City St George's, University of London
Iraqis went to the polls on November 11 to vote in parliamentary elections. Preliminary results put the coalition of Iraq’s prime minister, Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, in the lead. But no bloc has won anything close to a governing majority in the 329-seat parliament.
The country’s next government will be, as has been the pattern since the fall of longtime dictator Saddam…
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