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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DATE: June 7, 2021 TIME: 4:00pm BST. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that more than 1 million individuals contract a sexually transmitted infection (STI) every day....
Date: June 2, 2021 Time: 10:00am PDT Preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) is typically performed on a limited number of cells from an embryo biopsy and is used to prioritize embryos for tra...
The increasing spread of variants across the globe raises questions about the effectiveness of existing programs to protect public health. Join Dr. Lauring, a researcher of virus mutations,...
Date: May 25, 2021 Time: 7:00pm PDT Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) of Busulfan is essential for management of Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) patients, by optimizing dose, s...
Date: May 18, 2021 Time: 7:00am PDT, 10:00am EDT Proteins encoded by mutant genes in cancers can be processed and presented on tumor cell surface by human leukocyte antigen (HLA) molecules,...
Date: May 13, 2021 Time: 9:00am PDT The value proposition for laboratory medicine has long been theorized, estimated and debated. Despite decades of effort and intangible proof, the strategi...
Date: May 5, 2021 Time: 8:00am PDT, 11:00am EDT Emergence of genetic mutations within the SARS-CoV-2 genome that may enhance transmissibility, increase symptom severity or improve the virus...
Overview and learning objectives: Lupus anticoagulants are consistently present in patients at risk of thrombosis as a result of underlying antiphospholipid syndrome (aPS), a dangerous disor...
Phenoconversion is a mismatch between an individual’s genotype-based prediction of a drug metabolism and its true capacity. In other words, there is a mismatch between the clinically o...