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Guatemalan Presidential Commission Report on US STD Human Rights Violations English Tra... - 0 views

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    "Beginning in 1946, U.S. Public Health Service investigators in Guatemala, funded by the National Institutes of Health, engaged in immoral, unethical, and illegal experiments infecting victims with bacteria that cause sexually transmitted diseases, without the victims' informed consent. The U.S. has left the victims untreated and uncompensated to the present day."
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Mind the Science Gap - 0 views

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    Masters of Public Health students from the University of Michigan will be posting weekly articles as they learn how to translate complex science into something a broad audience can understand and appreciate.
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Lester Breslow, Who Tied Good Habits to Longevity, Dies at 97 - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    A key figure in the shift from public health of communicable diseases to lifestyle-related life expectancy, but with a socialist commitment.
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We Need a Structural One Health - 0 views

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    Disease isn't synonymous with its etiological agent or the map of its victims, whether or not either is placed within a... context that acknowledges the functional ecologies humans, livestock and wildlife share. [This] misses the structural factors underlying pathogen emergence and by virtue of that omission the pathogens' likely reemergence. Every one of the new potentially human-specific influenzas, for instance, have evolved out of industrial poultry and livestock. "
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