Weight control and fitness, ensuring healthy kidneys

Weight control and fitness, ensuring healthy kidneys

Philadelphia: Physical fitness and avoiding weight gain may help prevent kidney disease in obese adults. According to media reports, researchers from Drexel University’s College of Medicine and Dornsife School of Public Health in Philadelphia published their findings in the journal ‘Obesity’. Previous studies have found a link between weight gain and risk of chronic kidney…

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Admissible evidence, competent courts, critical to ensuring justice for ISIL victims in Iraq

Admissible evidence, competent courts, critical to ensuring justice for ISIL victims in Iraq

Ambassadors were briefed by Christian Ritscher, Special Adviser and Head of the UN Investigative Team to promote accountability for these crimes, UNITAD, established five years ago.  The Islamist group declared a self-styled caliphate across parts of Iraq and northern Syria in 2014, before being militarily defeated and driven from Iraq in December 2017.  Commitment stronger…

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