Earlier this month, MedGlobal, a US-based, medical non-profit organization, took a week-long trip to Yemen to try to change the conversation on healthcare there.
Activism
The X-ile Project Helps Ireland to “Face the 8th”
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The X-ile Project launched on December 10, 2015, with their first round of 11 photographs. They hope that their project will call people’s attention to what they say is an “identification problem between the Irish government and some factions of Irish society, and women who travel for access to abortion services.”
Health
10 Reasons to Give Up Soda for the New Year
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Companies like Pepsi and Coca-Cola spend billions of dollars to market their brand so much that soda has become an embedded staple of our normal diets.
Activism
Welcoming X-iles Home: New Project Works to Change Conversation on Abortion in Ireland
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The Eighth Amendment has driven Irish women from their homes, but now groups like The X-ile Project are trying to help these women carve out a space for themselves in a country where the government has made many feel like they don’t belong, and has turned people into statistics.
Health
10 Reasons Health & Fitness Resolutions Fail… And What YOU Can Do About It!
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Setting a fitness related resolution this New Year's? Statistics show that the #1 New Year's Resolution is to lose weight... yet on average only 8% actually achieve that resolution.
Health
Flu Season in Queens
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The best way to minimize your risk of getting the influenza virus is getting an annual flu vaccine or flu shot.