Category: Anxiety

The State Department has honored Botswana’s Malebogo Malefhe as a ‘woman of courage’ for inspiring others to stand up to domestic abuse.

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Japan is considering a further step away from its long-held pacifist stance with a proposal which would allow it, for the first time since World War II, to strike overseas targets.

The UN agency calls it the leading cause of poor health and disability

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A new study that looked at nearly 134,000 emergency department visits for traumatic brain injury, including concussion, during a one year period in Ontario estimated that those visits had a total cost of $945 million over the lifetimes of those patients.

Medical treatments accounted for $292 million (31 per cent) of the estimated lifetime costs, and lost productivity amounted to $653 million (69 per cent), according to the report, published online in the Canadian Journal of Neurological Science.

Policy makers are increasingly using cost-of-illness studies such as this one to guide resource allocation and identify opportunities for improving health-care sustainability, said Dr. Michael Cusimano, a neurosurgeon at St. Michael’s Hospital and a senior author of the study.

Contact: George Matsoukas, Executive Director, Orthodox Christian Laity, 877-585-0245, gmatsoukas@ocl.org LAS VEGAS, March 31, 2017 /Christian Newswire/ — The Board of Directors of the Orthodox Christian Laity (OCL) adopted the following Resolution at its recently concluded Board meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada: “OCL respectfully calls upon the Assembly of Bishops of the Orthodox Churches in the United States to publish all of the work of its committees over the seven-year course of its me Source: Orthodox Christian Laity

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Malaysian diplomats were also allowed to leave North Korea, in a swap that seemingly ends the standoff over the murder of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s half-brother.

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Contact: Sheryl Young, Media Outreach Coordinator, Ratio Christi Campus Apologetics Alliance, 813-486-8594, sherylyoung@ratiochristi.org INDIAN TRIAL, N.C., March 30, 2017 /Christian Newswire/ — Ratio Christi Campus Apologetics Alliance announces an agreement with NRBTV for the RC-TV streaming/satellite show, “Truth Matters”, to begin airing weekly on NRBTV on Saturday, April 8, 2017 at 10:30 PM Eastern, 7:30 PM Pacific. RC-TV’s “Truth Matters” originally debuted on various streamin Source: Ratio Christi Campus Apologetics Alliance

Contact: Troy Newman, President, 316-683-6790 ext. 111; Cheryl Sullenger, Senior Vice President, 316-516-3034; both with Operation Rescue, info.operationrescue@gmail.com      SACRAMENTO, Calif., March 29, 2017 /Christian Newswire/ — Late yesterday, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra charged pro-life investigative journalists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt of the Center for Medical Progress with 15 felony counts related to secret recordings they made that provid Source: Operation Rescue

Africans living in northern India are locking themselves indoors in terror after a spate of mob attacks left several hospitalized.