Histoire des sciences médicales
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Historical Article
[The six final International Sanitary Conferences of 1892 to 1926, the basis of the World Health Organization].
The authors report the contributions of the last six sanitary conferences from 1886 to 1926. All of them, from 1851 to 1926, were the first roots of WHO.
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HeLa cells line was established in 1951 from cervical cancer cells taken from a young AfroAmerican patient, Henrietta Lacks, used without the permission of the family. Finally, in 2013, an agreement was established between the family and NIH: for any study, authorization is needed, first referred to a working group comprising scientists, ethicists and two members of the family.