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EHPnet: Disease-free Zone

Mothers of a population-based series of 86 children with osteosarcoma or chondrosarcoma were traced and their health status or cause of death ascertained. There were 6 cases of breast cancer among these mothers and 6 other cancers. Risk of breast cancer was approximately three times that expected, and appeared to be highest in mothers of boys and in mothers of children under the median age at d...

Western Australia - A Johne's disease free zone

U.S. Dietary Guidelines: An Evidence-Free Zone.

O 7 January 2016, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Agriculture released the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2015–2020 (1). The preliminary report (released in February 2015) had generated considerable media attention by reversing decades of dogma with the statement that “cholesterol is not a nutrient of concern for overconsumption.” Incredibly, in the final 20...

Guantanamo Bay: a medical ethics-free zone?

n engl j med 369;2 nejm.org july 11, 2013 101 taken on behalf of the government, devalue medical ethics for all physicians. The ongoing hunger strike at Guantanamo by as many as 100 of the 166 remaining prisoners presents a stark challenge to the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) to resist the temptation to use military physicians to “break” the strike through force-feeding. President Barack Oba...

Indifference-Zone-Free Selection of the Best

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