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Paul Farmer, chief executive of the mental health charity Mind, put forward the idea at an event yesterday at which ministers and charities discussed the government’s new £1bn Youth Contract. The Youth Contract, which begins in April, was set up to...
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University of College London shows that working overtime may double a person's risk for depression. According to the study, employees who worked 11 hours or more each day were between 2.3 and 2.5 times more likely to develop a major depressive episode...
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A man stricken with cholera waits for relatives to visit at a cholera treatment centre run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) in Port-au-Prince October 21, 2011. Dr. Paul Farmer, co-founder of Boston-based Partners in Health (PIH), in... View Photo »
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CEO Paul Farmer welcomes a landmark Supreme Court judgement, which promises greater protection for people with mental health problems who admit themselves to hospital voluntarily. For many years at Mind, we have stood up for people with mental health...
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Each famine, he said, has distinct characteristics, and this one unfolded in slow motion over the past couple of years. That’s at least partly because the Somali diaspora sent money home that delayed the worst effects. Paul Farmer (left) speaks with...
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"Simply put, if we allow the fund to fail, many people will die, and we will forfeit the chance at the "AIDS-free generation" that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for in November. This is no time to step back."
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Family members and staff visit patients at a cholera treatment centre run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) in Port-au-Prince October 21, 2011. Dr. Paul Farmer, co-founder of Boston-based Partners in Health (PIH), in an interview... View Photo »
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Paul Farmer is chairman of the department of global health and social medicine at Harvard Medical School and a cofounder of Partners in Health, which has received support from the Global Fund in Haiti, Lesotho and Russia. Ten years ago, the heads of...
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FOXBORO (CBS) – Foxboro firefighter and paramedic Paul Farmer is looking forward to adding another t-shirt to his collection – one from Manhattan's Engine 24. The two departments made a bet where the losers send their shirts off their backs to the winners.
About Paul Farmer
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Paul Farmer (born October 26, 1959) is an American anthropologist and physician, the Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard University and an attending physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He currently resides in Cambridge, MA. His medical specialty is infectious... Full Article
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Demonstrators dance around a fake coffin with the UN initials on it during a protest against the United Nations, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. Dr. Paul Farmer, one of the Caribbean nation's most prominent health experts, told The Associated Press that cholera has...
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