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Zika Virus Highlights Flaws in Public Health Approaches in the Americas – Part 2

by Kittu Pannu - Public Health Master's Student

How has the International community responded, what are possible solutions, and how does this affect reproductive and women's rights in Brazil? In part 1, we covered the basic tenets of Zika, its history, modes of transmission, and the forms of testing and treatment

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February 17, 2016

Still Craven After All These Years

by Edmund Weisberg

It was tantamount to a Friday afternoon “news dump.” On Monday, December 21, 2015—amidst the final build-up to Christmas and the related travel and time off—the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it was changing its obsolete

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