Fighting for their future: In Ecuador’s Amazon, youth take up the battle against oil pollution
ANASTASIA MOLONEY, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how young activists in the oil town of Lago Agrio are demanding government action to remove gas flares in the rainforest following a landmark court ruling…
Medics and volunteers try to prop up Ukraine’s health system
London, UK Reuters When Russian bombs started falling on Kyiv, oncologist Nataliia Verovkina fled with her 10-year-old son. But once he was safe in Munich with his grandparents, she turned around and went back. “Someone had to help these people,” Verovkina, 43, who works at Ukraine’s National Cancer Institute, said by phone from the capital. […]
Lifestory: Nightbirde, who shared music, message of hope on ‘America’s Got Talent’, dies at 31
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, reports that the singer, a Liberty University graduate who moved many viewers with her faith in the face of a terminal cancer diagnosis, withdrew from ‘America’s Got Talent’ as her health declined…
Lifestory: A second chance at life after being diagnosed with stage four cancer
SAMANTHA ELLEY speaks to Australian Tony Dowling about his journey with God through cancer and his call to start photographic business Sunrise Daily…
US health head Collins steps down having led fight against cancer, COVID
Washington DC, USAP Dr Francis S Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health for 12 years, said Tuesday he is stepping down, capping a career in which he directed crucial research into the human genome and the fight against serious diseases like cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes and COVID-19. Collins said he was “grateful and proud of […]
Sight-Seeing: The glory in our suffering
RICHARD KINGSLEY THOMAS writes about the challenges – and hope – facing those diagnosed with an incurable disease…
Breast cancer overtakes lung as most common cancer – WHO
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters Breast cancer has overtaken lung cancer as the most common form of the disease, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. “For the first time, breast cancer now constitutes the most commonly occurring cancer globally,” Andre Ilbawi, a cancer specialist at the WHO, told a UN briefing ahead of World Cancer Day on […]
Breakthrough COVID vaccine tech could help defeat other diseases
Zurich, Switzerland/Frankfurt, GermanyReuters Breakthrough technology that transforms the body into a virus-zapping vaccine factory is poised to revolutionise the fight against COVID-19 but future pandemics and even cancer could be next, scientists say. The initial success of so-called messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccines in late-stage trials by Moderna as well as Pfizer and its German […]
Prominent pastor and author Tim Keller has pancreatic cancer
RNS Timothy Keller, founder of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan and a bestselling author and church planter, announced on Sunday that he has pancreatic cancer and will soon begin chemotherapy treatment. “I feel great and have no symptoms,” Keller, 69, wrote on Facebook and other social media posts. “It was what doctors call an “‘incidental pickup.’” After testing at […]
THE INTERVIEW: ANNE GRAHAM LOTZ, A YEAR AFTER BREAST CANCER DIAGNOSIS, SAYS JOY “NEVER LEFT ME”
ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, speaks to Billy Graham’s daugher, Anne Graham Lotz, about facing cancer, being a widow and an orphan, and defining the Holy Spirit…