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Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville give outstanding performances in the new film ORDINARY LOVE, from Bleecker Street, and they are helped by a powerful, semi-autobiographical script by Owen McCafferty. Image is of the two actors sitting together and smiling in a hospital waiting room. Credit: Aidan Monaghan/Bleecker Street
Aging

“Ordinary Love” and Extraordinary Compassion

by Jason Socrates Bardi, Caroline Kantis

New film starring Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville depicts the gloomy, gray uncertainty of modern breast cancer treatment

Kidney disease increases are concentrated among farm workers in hot, humid conditions, including sugarcane fields in Central America, similar to this one in Jacarezinho, Brazil on January 1, 2019. Picture is taken at the edge of a field on a sugar plantation on a spectacularly clear day. The earth is brown, the growing canes are green, and the deep blue sky has little fluffy clouds rolling in. REUTERS/Marcelo Texeira
Environment

Climate Change, the Kidney Killer

by ​​​​​​​Alton Lu

Is chronic kidney disease the canary in the coal mine in terms of feeling the health impacts of climate change?

Women sit as they prepare for screenings during the breast cancer prevention campaign in Abidjan, Ivory Coast on October 12, 2019. Image shows a row of several women wearing colorful clothes. REUTERS/Luc Gnago
Aging

The Growing Cancer Threat in Africa

by Thomas J. Bollyky

Cancer mortality is increasing in sub-Saharan Africa, where the needed health care infrastructure is still lacking