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Economic sanctions are against basic human rights on health

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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Central Hospital of Bolzano, Bozen, Italy

    Mohsen Farsad

  2. Departments of Radiology and Physics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Arman Rahmim

  3. Department of Radiology; Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Simin Dadparvar

  4. Clinic for Nuclear Medicine, Bethesda, Duisburg, Germany

    Jamshid Farahati

  5. Institut für Nuklearmedizin mit PET-Zentrum, Wilhelminenspital, Wien, Austria

    Siroos Mirzaei

  6. Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Abass Alavi

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Farsad, M., Rahmim, A., Dadparvar, S. et al. Economic sanctions are against basic human rights on health. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 46, 1046–1047 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-019-4269-3

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