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President Donald Trump campaigned on the unequivocal promise to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement. Since his inauguration, however, senior officials within the Administration have been debating about whether to withdraw or stay in the accord while altering the commitments made by the Obama Administration.

Panama is the 21st country to ratify ILO Convention No. 190 which aims to eliminate violence and harassment in the world of work.

Three UCSF faculty members are among the 100 new national members elected this year to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.

The United Nations reports little progress has been made in efforts to reform the Philippines’ anti-drug policy, which has claimed the lives of thousands of people, and bring justice to the victims of human rights violations and abuses. The findings are part a new report the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights submitted…

While official figures reflect a decrease in killings in the context of anti-drug operations, the UN continues to receive allegations of extrajudicial killings by Philippine National Police

While official figures reflect a decrease in killings in the context of anti-drug operations, the UN continues to receive allegations of extrajudicial killings by Philippine National Police

Richard “Dick” Eckaus, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics, emeritus, has died at 96. Eckaus was a deeply respected educator and mentor, and a founding member of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change.

On October 3, 2018, the United States signed the multi-country Agreement to Prevent Unregulated Commercial Fishing on the High Seas of the Central Arctic Ocean. The object of the agreement is to apply precautionary conservation and management measures to ensure the sustainable use of fish stocks in waters outside the jurisdictions of the signatory nations. While the agreement has a laudable purpose, it is susceptible to being undermined by non-parties, and should have taken the form of a treaty,...

Patients who have had any type of hospital-treated infection may be at higher risk not only for AD or PD, but of developing it at an earlier age.

In a nested case-control study, Jiangwei Sun and colleagues investigate the relationship between hospital-treated infections and risk of a diagnosis for Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and ALS using nationwide registry data from 1970-2016 in Sweden.