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“This year’s WHO global status report on cancer found ‘persistent and widening’ inequities in access to prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care” (The Guardian, July 8, 2026), and the World Health Organization warns that cancer “will touch 92% of people, either through their own diagnosis or that of a close family member.” More than twenty million people are diagnosed with cancer every year, and estimat

“Close to five sexual crimes against children aged 12 and younger were recorded on average by police every day in primary and secondary schools in England and Wales, according to Guardian analysis of police data for 2021-25. The figures include reports of almost 2,000 rapes and attempted rapes, which is equivalent to an average of one allegation of rape at a school received by the police every single day” (The Guardian, October 4, 2026).

For centuries, the skull was viewed as a hard, simple structure protecting the fragile brain. And, for nearly 100 years, scientists thought the brain was protected from immune activity that could damage it (Deutsche Welle, August 24, 2026). However, the historic view of immunity and the brain is rapidly changing!

The financial crisis of 2007 and 2008 sent shockwaves around the globe. Then there was an economic recovery. When the COVID-19 crisis hit, world economies took another financial downturn. Now, between the war in Ukraine and the United States’ and Israel’s war with Iran, the global economy is struggling again.