Everyone who has once found themselves in a difficult situation is familiar with the feeling of loneliness, despair, failure, and disappointment in life and oneself. This is approximately how people feel when they end up in hospices and geriatric wards due to disability, illness, old age, etc.For...
Losing the sense of smell is listed as one of the most common symptoms of COVID-19 infection by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Many people who contract the virus seem to share this experience of losing smell, yet they differ in the time it takes to regain their precious sen...
One Friday afternoon, John Robin was walking along the beach on Hiu Island, in the north of Vanuatu. To his surprise, he saw a fish lying on the beach. It was strange because the fish was alive and unhurt. Quickly, he picked it up and went to show it to his new friend, John Joseph, to see if he h...
Vegetables were grown as a result of geography and religious education classes
Having spent more than 20 years working and studying in the field of public health and epidemiology, I have been disheartened by the foothold that anti-vaccination and anti-vaccination-mandate ideologies have taken within some spheres of the Adventist Church community. As a denomination, we have ...
Merrick Lopez , MD, a pediatric intensivist at Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital, says he remembers when health officials and news sites started buzzing about an unknown virus that hadn’t yet reached the United States. A U.S. State Department-chartered plane carrying upwards of 240 U.S. c...