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san francisco San Francisco spends $3.1m/year on homeless toilets and $65m/year cleaning up poop Cory Doctorow

Science A CRISPR-based hack could eradicate malaria-carrying mosquitoes Cory Doctorow
scholarship AMA study: shooters armed with semiautomatic rifles kill twice as many people Cory Doctorow
security Airport "security" trays are filthy reservoirs of infectious agents Cory Doctorow
Science Watch this coagulant make dirty water drinkable Andrea James
Environment Pagan Kennedy's NY Times piece on collective vs. personal health becomes "New Rule" on Real Time Gareth Branwyn
uk "Economic murder": Senior UK public health researchers say 120,000 people died under Tory austerity Cory Doctorow
Science Poor Alabama county is a hotbed of "neglected tropical diseases" Cory Doctorow
uk One year 40% HIV infection dropoff in London attributed to grey-market generic pre-exposure prophylaxis drugs Cory Doctorow
security Information security needs its own National Institutes of Health Cory Doctorow
Business Peak indifference: privacy as a public health issue Cory Doctorow
Science Income inequality turns "neglected tropic diseases" into American diseases of "the poor living among the wealthy" Cory Doctorow
health California officials warn anti-vaxxers to avoid Disneyland Andrea James
Science What would have killed your 19th-century doppelgänger? Maggie Koerth
Science Poor white women and a public health mystery Maggie Koerth
Science What the FDA doesn't want to tell you about livestock antibiotic use Maggie Koerth
Science How old is post-traumatic stress disorder? Maggie Koerth
Science The whooping cough vaccine your children get may not work as well as the one you got as a kid Maggie Koerth
health Uganda: Ebola's back Xeni Jardin
Science Lies, damned lies, and flame-retardant furniture Maggie Koerth

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