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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 10, 2020 | 7:30 AM
The selective pressure placed on the resident microbiota by local changes in the host environment – DNA damage, chronic inflammation, metabolic shifts, barrier damage, reduced immunosu...
SEP 10, 2020 | 12:00 AM
The host response to infection is a critical determinant of virus pathogenicity. Emerging viruses require the host cellular machinery to replicate and successfully infect new hosts, and must...
SEP 09, 2020 | 12:00 AM
As a response to various inflammatory stimuli, neutrophils and macrophages expel a mixture of their nuclear and granular elements in the form of extracellular traps (ETs). These web-like sub...
AUG 27, 2020 | 7:00 AM
SARS-CoV-2 has created significant challenges for laboratories, requiring the development, validation, and scale up of testing in a very short time period--often this was done for multiple m...
AUG 19, 2020 | 11:00 AM
DATA: 19 de agosto, 2020 Horário: às 15:00 horas Desde que foi detectado pela primeira vez em Wuhan, China, em 2019, o novo coronavírus SARS-CoV-2 e a doença que...
AUG 19, 2020 | 11:00 AM
FECHA: 19 de Agosto, 2020 HORA: 10:00 AM PST 1:00 PM CST Desde que se detectó por primera vez en Wuhan, China, en 2019, el nuevo coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 y la enfermedad que causa, COVI...
AUG 11, 2020 | 9:00 AM
DATE: August 11, 2020 TIME: 8:00am PDT The goal of TB elimination, less than 1 case per million people per year, can only be achieved through a concerted effort to detect and treat persons i...
JUL 29, 2020 | 9:00 AM
July 29, 2020 TIME: 9:00am PDT, 12:009m EDT, 6:00pm CEST Hepatitis C infection, once a formidable enemy, is now a curable disease. Dramatic advances in antiviral therapies have launched a ne...
JUL 28, 2020 | 9:00 AM
DATE: July 28, 2020 TIME: 9:00 am PDT, 12:00 pm EDT The demographic profile of hepatitis B and C has seen a paradigm shift over the last 10 years and as a result clinical guidelines for hepa...
JUL 14, 2020 | 7:00 AM
ABSTRACT DATE: July 14, 2020 TIME: 7:00 am PDT, 10:00 am EDT This is the second topic in the webinar series on ‘ Predictive Genomics for Population & Personalized Health ’. C...
JUL 08, 2020 | 10:00 AM
DATE: July 8, 2020 TIME: 10:00 am PDT This seminar reviews clinical utility of adopting rapid IDH1/2 testing in both hematological and solid tumors and describes the adjusted workflow develo...
JUL 01, 2020 | 12:45 PM
NGS is still perceived as a complex, hard to implement and validate method that requires highly experienced people. Outsourcing next-generation sequencing (NGS) testing could be an option to...
JUL 01, 2020 | 12:15 PM
Here I review the applications of Ion Torrent NGS technology in the field of microbiome research and some recent publications about it. With Ion Torrent 16S rRNA next generation sequencing,...
