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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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• Avian Flu Diary
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