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Big Pharma Testing Drugs on India’s Poor

Posted on Aug 7, 2011, Source: New America Media

Pharmaceutical companies are exploiting the country’s vast number of illiterate and poor people who are willing to become guinea pigs.

Ethnic Leaders Find Hope in Health Care Plan

Posted on Sep 11, 2009, Source: New America Media

Leaders in the medical community analyzed what the president's health care plan would mean for immigrants and minorities.

Huron, California May not Exist in a Year

Posted on Jul 9, 2009, Source: New America Media

The unemployment rate in Huron in recent months is “off the charts.”

Why Are we Keeping Old Ladies Locked Up in Prison?

Posted on Feb 10, 2009, Source: New America Media

Nonviolent and medically neglected, elderly prisoners in California routinely die horrible deaths.

Friends Don't Make You Fat

Posted on Aug 6, 2007, Source: New America Media

An expert on childrens' health attacks a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine which suggests that obesity is socially contagious.
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