Effect Measure
Effect Measure is a forum for progressive public health discussion and argument as well as a source of public health information from around the web that interests the Editor(s)
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The Editors of Effect Measure are senior public health scientists and practitioners. Paul Revere was a member of the first local Board of Health in the United States (Boston, 1799). The Editors sign their posts "Revere" to recognize the public service of a professional forerunner better known for other things.
Recent Posts
- A note tacked to the door
- We bid you farewell
- Freethinker Sunday Sermonette: summing up
- Blog matters: who is "revere"?
- Reading about the hazards of what I used to do as a youngster
- Only the ducks are dead
- Ending the War on Drugs
- Playing chicken with drug resistant Salmonella
- Washing our hands of a difficult (or not so difficult) decision
- Thinking about science and what I do
Recent Comments
- frank on Translational medicine gets a new journal. I'm skeptical.
- Mary on Second hand smoke is bad for you
- MarShep on Swine flu: case reports of 3 pregnant women
- Susan on Talking to passengers and cell phones
- maca on A note tacked to the door
- ciciLiu on PowerPoint disease
- Lisa on Cialis. What's with the bath tubs, already?
- Colleen on Fainting after a vaccination
- bill on Cialis. What's with the bath tubs, already?
- Dale on Fainting after a vaccination
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