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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.
SEP 02, 2015 | 6:00 AM
Among many surprising insights, the genomic revolution has helped us to realize that we're never alone and, in fact, barely human. For most of our lives, we share our bodies with some ten ti...
JUN 25, 2015 | 10:00 AM
Date: Thursday, June 25, 2015 Time: 10:00 AM PST, 12:00 PM CST, 1:00 PM ESTSerology testing continues to be an indispensable tool for the management of several disease states, especially tr...
JUN 11, 2015 | 2:00 PM
Clinical laboratories and, indeed, health care overall, are facing potential paradigm shifts in how innovative and higher quality care are delivered to patients. From ever more precise and ac...
JUN 10, 2015 | 7:30 AM
CMS continues to make changes to how all healthcare providers are reimbursed in attempts to control the cost of the services provided to Medicare beneficiaries. This has led to value-based r...
JUN 09, 2015 | 11:00 AM
Carbapenemase-producing Gram-Negative Bacilli are the latest public health threat, spreading rapidly across the globe in the last decade. The Chicago region has experienced a growing outbrea...
JUN 09, 2015 | 7:30 AM
Review of recent, post ACA, health care legislation for impact on physicians and clinical laboratories. Overview of possible new health care legislation and update on Medicare regulatory act...
MAY 26, 2015 | 6:00 AM
Sign up here to watch this Webinar On DemandCytotoxicity remains one of the major causes of drug withdrawal and there is an urgent need for reliable and time-saving assay workflows. Cells exp...
MAY 14, 2015 | 1:30 PM
Asthma is heritable, influenced by the environment, and is modified by in utero exposures and aging; all of these features are also common to epigenetic regulation. Furthermore, genetic varia...
