Category: WT Focus

With quality healthcare costs escalating to newer levels, more and more people are falling beyond the scope of care and treatment. The health scenario of the global population brings about huge challenges which at some point of time, the governments may become incapable of handling. One of these serious problems brewing right now is obesity and the irony of this is that obesity is more associated with poverty now than with wealth. It has just been emphasized that obese people do not seem to respond to hunger-related hormone glucagon, the…

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One of the common injustices today, seen across the world is that prevailing in the criminal justice systems of nations. While the call for a ban on the death sentence is being heard and nations make an effort to move away from it, they are unfortunately replacing it with life imprisonment without parole (LWOP). Ironically this is an equal, if not a harsher punishment to the death penalty. On the face of it, the deliberation procedures, sentencing guidelines, opportunities for appeal and pardon that are so evident in death sentence…

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Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa may be described as major eating disorders. These may also be described as psychological disorders associated with eating and not eating. The compulsion to eat or to go on diet is extreme, which is gradually increased and gets out of control. These people fear becoming fat or perceive themselves as being fat, when actually they are not. Apart from anorexia and bulimia, the other food related disorders include binge eating disorders, food phobias etc. Although not much is known about what actually causes eating disorders,…

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Bipolar disorder is among the earliest known ill health conditions and has a notable developmental history. There is a mention of the related symptoms in the early medical records. Bipolar disorder was first noticed in the second century when Aretaeus of Cappadocia in ancient Turkey, identified symptoms of mania and depression, and expressed an opinion that there could be a link between the two. German psychiatrist Karl Leonhard in the early 1950s with his associates developed a classification system, which used the term ‘bipolar’ emphasizing the difference between unipolar and…

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Globalization and the new ideas of liberty and rights have brought to the masses several rights together with the idea of compensation for victims. In an era where loss of status and mental agony is considered seriously, there is hardly anyone who realizes the impact and devastation to a vast majority of the human population on the surface of the Earth. At the global level, a staggering size of the population is struggling to just lead a contended life. With hunger, poverty, homelessness, and environmental degradation at their respective peaks,…

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