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Public Health: the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting human health through organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals." Analyzing the health of a population and the threats is the basis for public health. The "public" in question can be as small as a handful of people, an entire village or it can be as large as several continents, in the case of a pandemic. "Health" takes into account physical, mental and social well-being. It is not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, according to the World Health Organization.
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OCT 01, 2020Microbiology
Cholera is an intestinal infection caused by Vibrio cholerae. Cholera has been a scourge throughout human history, and i ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 30, 2020Microbiology
Schistosomiasis doesn't get much research attention, but it affects around 240 million people around the world, killing ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 28, 2020Genetics & Genomics
Since the start of the pandemic, scientists have been trying to find out why some people get such severe illness from SA ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 28, 2020Microbiology
Scientists and clinicians want people to get their flu shots this year, especially because of the ongoing pandemic.Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 24, 2020Health & Medicine
By this point in the year, you’ve either heard or uttered the phrase “quarantine brain.” While the act ...Written By: Tiffany DazetSEP 22, 2020Cardiology
Mosquitoes are major disease vectors; they are considered the world's deadliest animal because they kill so many people.Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 21, 2020Drug Discovery & Development
The World Health Organization has endorsed a protocol to put African herbal medicines through clinical trials as possibl ...Written By: Annie LennonSEP 20, 2020Microbiology
People born in the late 1960s or 1970s might be perpetually susceptible to the H3N2 influenza virus, according to new re ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 18, 2020Health & Medicine
Researchers are beginning to examine how the world's response to the pandemic virus SARS-CoV-2 went wrong, and right ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 17, 2020Earth & The Environment
As California faces its worst wildfire season yet, with 28 major fires burning throughout the state as of September 14, ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanSEP 16, 2020Health & Medicine
Nearly three-quarters (72 percent) of cannabis users simply don’t see themselves as fitt ...Written By: Angela DowdenSEP 14, 2020Technology
The current COVID-19 pandemic has overshadowed another public health challenge in the United States—and that ...Written By: Nouran AminSEP 14, 2020Cancer
A study conducted by researchers from Florida Atlantic University's Schmidt College of Medicine suggests that too ma ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanSEP 13, 2020Microbiology
Researchers in the lab of Camille Ehre, Ph.D. at the UNC School of Medicine have created amazing images of the pandemic ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 11, 2020Microbiology
While only about 25 of 900 species of tick spread disease, ticks are responsible for an estimated 95 percent of vector-b ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 11, 2020Genetics & Genomics
Telomeres cap the ends of chromosomes. They work to protect the chromosomes from degradation, and are known to get short ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 11, 2020Health & Medicine
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently released a progress report on its five-year initiative for the global elimi ...Written By: Tiffany DazetSEP 10, 2020Genetics & Genomics
While institutional racism in the healthcare system plays a major part, there seem to also be biological reasons why the ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 10, 2020Drug Discovery & Development
Researchers from Ohio State University have found that the common painkiller, paracetamol ( also known as Tylenol and Pa ...Written By: Annie LennonSEP 09, 2020Health & Medicine
Changes in cannabis legalization status haven’t caused an uptick in pedestrians being killed by cars, a study has ...Written By: Angela DowdenSEP 06, 2020Microbiology
Effective vaccines have to trigger an immune response, which is intended to create an immune 'memory' of a specific infe ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 05, 2020Cannabis Sciences
From studying adolescent siblings, researchers from the University of Colorado School of Medicine have found that modera ...Written By: Annie LennonSEP 03, 2020Drug Discovery & Development
A recent European study found that individuals taking a combination of lipid-lowering therapeutics may reduce the risk o ...Written By: Nouran AminSEP 03, 2020Neuroscience
New research from University College London (UCL) provides another link between obesity and dementia risk. The study cit ...Written By: Tiffany Dazet
OCT 01, 2020
Microbiology
Cholera is an intestinal infection caused by Vibrio cholerae. Cholera has been a scourge throughout human history, and i
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 30, 2020
Microbiology
Schistosomiasis doesn't get much research attention, but it affects around 240 million people around the world, killing
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 28, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
Since the start of the pandemic, scientists have been trying to find out why some people get such severe illness from SA
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 28, 2020
Microbiology
Scientists and clinicians want people to get their flu shots this year, especially because of the ongoing pandemic.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 24, 2020
Health & Medicine
By this point in the year, you’ve either heard or uttered the phrase “quarantine brain.” While the act
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
SEP 22, 2020
Cardiology
Mosquitoes are major disease vectors; they are considered the world's deadliest animal because they kill so many people.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 21, 2020
Drug Discovery & Development
The World Health Organization has endorsed a protocol to put African herbal medicines through clinical trials as possibl
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
SEP 20, 2020
Microbiology
People born in the late 1960s or 1970s might be perpetually susceptible to the H3N2 influenza virus, according to new re
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 18, 2020
Health & Medicine
Researchers are beginning to examine how the world's response to the pandemic virus SARS-CoV-2 went wrong, and right
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 17, 2020
Earth & The Environment
As California faces its worst wildfire season yet, with 28 major fires burning throughout the state as of September 14,
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
SEP 16, 2020
Health & Medicine
Nearly three-quarters (72 percent) of cannabis users simply don’t see themselves as fitt
...
Written By:
Angela Dowden
SEP 14, 2020
Technology
The current COVID-19 pandemic has overshadowed another public health challenge in the United States—and that
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
SEP 14, 2020
Cancer
A study conducted by researchers from Florida Atlantic University's Schmidt College of Medicine suggests that too ma
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
SEP 13, 2020
Microbiology
Researchers in the lab of Camille Ehre, Ph.D. at the UNC School of Medicine have created amazing images of the pandemic
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 11, 2020
Microbiology
While only about 25 of 900 species of tick spread disease, ticks are responsible for an estimated 95 percent of vector-b
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 11, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
Telomeres cap the ends of chromosomes. They work to protect the chromosomes from degradation, and are known to get short
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 11, 2020
Health & Medicine
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently released a progress report on its five-year initiative for the global elimi
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
SEP 10, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
While institutional racism in the healthcare system plays a major part, there seem to also be biological reasons why the
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 10, 2020
Drug Discovery & Development
Researchers from Ohio State University have found that the common painkiller, paracetamol ( also known as Tylenol and Pa
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
SEP 09, 2020
Health & Medicine
Changes in cannabis legalization status haven’t caused an uptick in pedestrians being killed by cars, a study has
...
Written By:
Angela Dowden
SEP 06, 2020
Microbiology
Effective vaccines have to trigger an immune response, which is intended to create an immune 'memory' of a specific infe
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 05, 2020
Cannabis Sciences
From studying adolescent siblings, researchers from the University of Colorado School of Medicine have found that modera
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
SEP 03, 2020
Drug Discovery & Development
A recent European study found that individuals taking a combination of lipid-lowering therapeutics may reduce the risk o
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
SEP 03, 2020
Neuroscience
New research from University College London (UCL) provides another link between obesity and dementia risk. The study cit
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet