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  Fitz: The 3,000 Who Stayed

  How does a poor Latin American country make a transformative medical revolution?
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  Rosenberg: What Big Pharma Does Not Want You to Know About the Opioid Epidemic

  The Pharma-driven opioid epidemic may be as big a con as the mortgage housing bubble collapse
• Quigley: From Cancer Patient to Medicines Activist

  It is Hannah Lyon’s first-ever experience with public speaking, but...
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  Sturgis: N.C. produces flawed study to dismiss cancer-cluster fears near Duke Energy coal plants

  Is it surprising that people living near these plants report unusual patterns of illness?
• Schwartz: FMLA Doctor’s Notes: What Unions Need to Know

  A look at the Family and Medical Leave Act
• Laubjerg: Combating HIV/AIDS in Africa – The Hypocrisy Approach

  According to the most recent data released by UNAIDS, 36.9 million people globally were living with HIV in 2014, with 70 % of them living in sub-Saharan Africa
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  Fitz: Cuba’s Medical Mission

  The Ebola experience is one of many covered in John Kirk’s new book Health Care without Borders: Understanding Cuban Medical Internationalism
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  Olson: The Zika Virus: A No-Brainer, Moneymaker?

  Alert: This is a satire. [Note: The World Health Organization...
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  Zirin: Kevin Turner Dies From ALS, the NFL Does Not Give a Damn

  Kevin Turner played in pro football for eight years, but when he died, the NFL said nothing. They could start by apologizing
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  Rasmus: Neoliberal Economists: Against Bernie Sanders and Common Sense

  If the U.S. spent, like other advanced economies with single payer, about 10 percent of its GDP a year on health care, it would cost US$1.8 trillion instead of US$3 trillion a year
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  Cole: 30 Americans die worldwide from Terrorism annually, while 130,000 die by accident

  Militarizing our police, spying on everyone’s internet use, and so forth can’t possibly save a fraction of the number of deaths that better health insurance would
• Thomas: The Zika virus: government responses add to women’s burden

  The Zika virus is shining a light on the inadequacies of abortion and family planning laws in Latin America
• Hunziker: Fukushima Radiation: a Killer

  People in the streets and on the ground in Japan tell a different story about the risks of radiation. They talk about illnesses and death
• Osava: Zika Epidemic Offers Sanitation a Chance in Brazil

  Three decades of dengue fever epidemic did not manage to...
• Pentz Gunter: No Bliss in this Ignorance

  The great Fukushima nuclear cover-up
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  Mokhiber: Heather White and the Human Costs of Electronics

  Heather White is a graduate of Harvard and MIT. Who...
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  Zirin: Brazil in Peril: The World Cup, the Olympics, and the Zika Virus

  The legacy of the 2016 Brazil Olympics could be the spreading of the Zika virus across the hemisphere’s most vulnerable populations
• Nass: NY Times in-depth article on US heroin epidemic gets the cause and the solution all wrong

  There has been profound, systematic inflation of the amount of heroin reaching the US from Mexico and Colombia by the US government
• Nakad: Care for Where There Is No Justice: The modern history of street medics and how they support social movements

  Street medic groups have been on the front line of many groundbreaking movements
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  Cohn: 40 Years On, the Vietnam War Continues for Victims of Agent Orange

  Those exposed to Agent Orange during the war often have children and grandchildren with serious illnesses and disabilities