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• Human Rights and the Aids Crisis: The Debate Over Resources

  http://hrw.org/english/docs/2000/07/11/global2195.htm
  International human-rights standards can help point a useful direction while we prepare ourseleves to face a new public-health challenge that has come to the fore in the fight against AIDS.

• Infostat, Cargo-Cult Science and the Policy Sausage-machine

  http://www.hedweb.com/bgcharlton/cargocult.html
  Paper on the managerial takeover of clinical practice, and how the process of medical science is distorted by politics and dubious trendy theories.

• Making Medicines Safer - The Need for an Independent Drug Safety Board

  http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199812173392512
  From the New England Journal of Medicine. "Currently, after a drug is approved for marketing, we rely on a voluntary reporting system based on the assumption that a drug is safe... It is remarkable that at a time when the technology for collecting and analyzing large amounts of data is readily available, an independent, comprehensive, and systematic program of post-marketing drug surveillance does not exist."

• Not Another Generation Exposed To Asbestos

  http://www.angelfire.com/al4/ban_asbestos/Not_Another_Generation_Exposed_To_Asbestos.html
  An examination of asbestos, its effects on the human body, the state of mesothelioma treatments, and pending legislation on asbestos issues.

• Public Health and Personal Freedom

  http://www.hedweb.com/bgcharlton/healthfreed.html
  Argues that more emphasis should be given to personal freedom over public health, using the example of alcohol.

 

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