A kind of medical Apartheid (or How much money are we spending on this swine flu thing?)
First, take a quick peek at this Gapminder.org video for a general sense of the problem:
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 5:30 p.m. Steamworks 375 Water Street, Vancouver, British Columbia Join the leading Canadian and Californian cancer stem cell researchers for discussion, debate,…
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I found a few pages of a discarded Vancouver Sun the other day on the bus, and was kind of disturbed by an article about “islands…
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(Photo from the Ubyssey) Cindy says: I am currently involved with a group of graduate and undergraduate students led by Dr. Mike Gold in the planning…
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Google’s philanthropic unit (philanthropic unit?) has taken their ever so popular (well, popular on Terry – see here, here, here, and here) Google Trends tool and…
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