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Dr. Carola Eisenberg, human rights group founder and groundbreaking woman dean at MIT and Harvard, dies at 103
By Bryan Marquard Globe Staff,Updated March 14, 2021, 6:05 p.m.
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Lying awake at night in an El Salvador hotel room â her sleep disturbed by what she described as âthe zzzzzzâ of machine gun fire, the sounds of âpeople being killedâ â Dr. Carola Eisenberg was reminded of why she helped found a human rights organization and risked her life to document abuses.
âBefore I went,â she later recalled of that 1989 trip, âI would ask myself, you know, âWhy should I go? Will one person make a difference?â And the difference that one makes is that people in the jails and other places we visited would say, âWe are not forgotten.â And that was the message that I got. And I had to keep going back, because they had to hear that other people cared about them.â
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Black women have 80% higher risk of preterm birth between 32 and 33 weeks of pregnancy if a Black person who lives in their neighborhood is killed by police during the pregnancy, according to a study by researchers at UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley.
The study by scientists at the UCSF California Preterm Birth Initiative (PTBI-CA) and UC Berkeley School of Public Health, studied the records of 3.8 million pregnant women to assess whether fatal police violence occurring in their neighborhood during pregnancy was associated with extremely early, early, moderate or late preterm delivery. Our findings suggest that deaths due to police violence, which already differentially affect Black and Brown communities, adversely affect the health of mothers and babies during pregnancy, said first author Dana Goin, PhD, post-doctoral scholar in the UCSF Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences. In addition, we observed the strongest associations with preterm b
Charles J. Kilo, MD, a former professor of clinical medicine at the School of Medicine, died of pneumonia March 15 in Naples, Fla. He was 94. Kilo and collaborators at the School of Medicine were among the first to demonstrate that diabetes complications are linked to the duration of the disease and the degree of blood sugar control.
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