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...effort to foster continued involvement and awareness among Harvard students, the Student Alliance For Global Health at Harvard brought together 22 global health and development-related groups from across campus in the basement of the Cambridge Queen’s Head pub after the concert...
More than any other research, it was a study published in the British medical journal the Lancet in 1998 that helped foster the persisting notion that childhood vaccines can cause autism. On Feb. 2, that flawed study, led by gastroenterologist Dr. Andrew Wakefield, was officially retracted by the journal's editors--a serious slap and a rare move in the world of medicine. "It has become clear that several elements of the 1998 paper by Wakefield et al. are incorrect, contrary to the findings of an earlier investigation," wrote the Lancet editors in a statement issued online...
...before Deborah Melville's death in July 2007, the 12-year-old was visited by a Northern Territory child-protection worker at her foster home outside of Darwin, Australia. The caseworker noted the girl's distress, who, according to the Australian media, was crying on the kitchen floor when she arrived. The social worker comforted Deborah, reassuring her that she would not be uprooted and moved to another home...
...however, was let off the hook: In an inquiry completed on Jan. 19, the national Department of Families and Child Services, the authority that was supposed to be protecting Deborah, was found largely responsible for her death, having ignored the many red flags raised throughout her six years in foster care. (See a brief history of baby lifts...
...What They're Wearing in South Africa: The African National Congress might want to stick to politics. In a bid to foster unity, South Africa's ruling party has introduced 19 leather jackets in black, green and gold, its official colors. But while President Jacob Zuma sported a similar look at the ANC victory party following last year's election, the jarring neon threads aren't catching on. In a poll by South Africa's Independent Online, 86% of respondents said they wouldn...