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Public Health, Epidemiology, and Infectious Diseases

Harris, Gardiner. "U.S. Creates Ethics Panel on Priority for Flu Shots." New York Times, October 28, 2004.

"Up and Out: Americans Get Heavier." New York Times, October 28, 2004.

"World's Best Medical Care?" Editorial, New York Times, August 12, 2007.

Taubes, Gary. "Do We Really Know What Makes Us Healthy?" New York Times, September 16, 2007.

Sack, Kevin. "Deadly Bacteria Found to be More Common." New York Times, October 17, 2007.

McNeil Jr., Donald G. "Sharp Drop Seen in Deaths from Ills Fought by Vaccine." New York Times, November 14, 2007.

Grady, Denise. "Four Transplant Recipients Contract H.I.V." New York Times, November 14, 2007.

Harris, Gardiner. "5 Cases of Polio in Amish Group Raise New Fears." New York Times, November 8, 2005.

———. "Infant Deaths Fall in U.S., but Rate is Still High." New York Times, October 16, 2008.

Beane, Billy, Newt Gingrich, and John Kerry. "How to Take American Health Care from Worst to First." New York Times, October 24, 2008.

Altman, Lawrence K. "Drug-Resistant TB Rates Soar in Former Soviet Regions." New York Times, February 27, 2008.

Beil, Laura. "Worrisome Infection Eludes a Leading Children's Vaccine." New York Times, October 13, 2008.

Svoboda, Elizabeth. "Deep in the Rain Forest, Stalking the Next Pandemic." New York Times, October 21, 2008.

Kolata, Gina. "Data on Deaths From Obesity is Inflated, U.S. Agency Says." New York Times, November 24, 2004.

Villarosa, Linda. "AIDS Fears Grow for Black Women." New York Times, April 5, 2004.

Gibbs, Walter. "Nobel Laureate Seeks to Explain AIDS Remarks." New York Times, December 10, 2004.

Waldman, Amy. "On India's Roads, Cargo and a Deadly Passenger." New York Times, December 6, 2005.

McNeil, Jr., Donald G. "U.N. to Say It Overstated H.I.V. Cases by Millions." New York Times, November 20, 2007.

Brody, Jane E. "A Basic Hospital List Saves Lives." New York Times, January 22, 2008.

Hayes, Tom. "NYC Probing Possible Thefts of Body Parts." Boston Globe, December 24, 2005.

Sack, Kevin. "Infection Control Guidelines Issued." New York Times, October 9, 2008.

Blakeslee, Sandra. "40 People Unknowingly Got Tissue or Organs From Donor with Hepatitis C; 5 Died." New York Times, October 4, 2002.

Dubner, Stephan J., and Steven D. Levitt. "Selling Soap." New York Times, September 21, 2006.  

Bernstein, Nina. "For Subjects in Haiti Study, Free AIDS Care Has a Price." New York Times, June 6, 1999.

French, Howard W. "AIDS Research in Africa: Juggling Risks and Hopes." New York Times, October 9, 1997.

Groopman, Jerome. "In an AIDS Study, The Devil Is In The Details." New York Times, April 2, 2000.

 

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