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Updates & Legacy — Stigmabase is a Canadian Non-Governmental & Nonprofit Initiative. Our mission is to inform about stigma around the world and make the data collected accessible for researchers. Stigmabase is very attentive to misinformation and lists only reliable sources. — The marginalization of individuals or categories of individuals is a too common phenomenon. Millions of people are facing this problem around the world and many complex factors are involved.

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Health woes afflict young people seeking 'severe obesity' surgery

Pacific Standard Time — Sunday, November 24, 2013

Health woes afflict young people seeking 'severe obesity' surgery - CHICAGO | U.S. teens seeking weight-loss surgery are presenting with a number of health problems that used to be seen only in adults, according to a major ...

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