Infant deaths: Mapping project logs decade of mortality for poorest residents, polluted areas
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Two members of the San Francisco Chronicle's investigative team examined why the US health officials failed to solve the health disparities leaving babies in certain neighborhoods at greater risks of death. One of the reasons could be that the US health care leaders have overlooked evidence that pollution and the stress of inner-city life might be a terror to many newborn babies.
Publication Name: The IRE Journal
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0164-7016
Year: 2005
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Rogue market: shadow distribution system calls into question safety, origin of diverted drugs
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The illicit enterprise of a largely unrecognized and lethally dangerous marketplace for prescription of drugs is called the shadow market. It includes felons, rogue Internet pharmacies that illegally obtain and trade millions of doses of narcotics, domestic and foreign counterfeiters, and also indulge in cross-border trafficking of medicines from Mexico and Canada.
Publication Name: The IRE Journal
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0164-7016
Year: 2004
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Soldiers' deaths lead to question about harassment
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The death of two soldiers, namely, Spc. Karl Herrick and Pvt. Ibrahim Hasan, in the same way on the railroad tracks is described. The death of both was termed as suicide, and both had officers over them who failed to protect them from unfair treatment due to the racial harassment, as investigated by the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigation Command.
Publication Name: The IRE Journal
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0164-7016
Year: 2001
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