Tag: public health
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The new lice wars
MACLEAN’S Despite evidence that it’s time to abandon the no-nit rule requiring kids be sent home, schools have yet to get the message.
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As millions gather for Kumbh Mela, doctors are watching
When a cholera outbreak gripped a London neighbourhood in 1854, physician John Snow carefully mapped its deaths. The thin bars he traced under each address clustered around a water pump on Broad Street, which turned out to be the source of the bacteria. Snow’s studies of disease patterns won him recognition as the father of…