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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, not an executive agreement.
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.