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Transforming Healthcare with Data: Improving Patient Care and Efficiency

November 20, 2023November 20, 2023 Marinanicole Schultheiss

By: Harshit Chandrol Image courtesy of beachmobjellies; CC-BY-SA 2.0 DEED. The world is being inundated with data: Data is set to grow with a five-year

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Food Insecurity in Eastern and Southern Africa due to El NiƱo

March 23, 2016January 25, 2023 Kara Sewalk

The United Nations Children’s Fund has stated that approximately 11 million children in eastern and southern Africa face hunger, disease and water shortage due to

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Antimalarial Drug Resistance in Cambodia

January 27, 2016 Colleen Nguyen

An NIH study published in The Lancet Infectious Disease earlier this month indicates that the anti-malarial medication dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine has failed to treat Plasmodium falciparum malaria

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Is an Olympic Race Worth Your Health?

December 20, 2015July 21, 2022 Colleen Nguyen

The promise Brazil made to clean up its waterways was a major part of its winning bid to host the 2016 Olympics and has been

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Antibiotic Resistance & Tuberculosis

November 20, 2015January 25, 2023 Kara Sewalk

On October 28th 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a press statement that announced Tuberculosis (TB) now rivals HIV/AIDS as the leading cause of

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My MRSA: A Personal Account

November 19, 2015July 21, 2022 Colleen Nguyen

Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is the mutated, antibiotic-resistant strain of regular “staph” infections, commonly found in gyms and frequently passed through communal sports equipment. MRSA’s

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#DDD3: Day Two Recap

May 22, 2015January 25, 2023 Colleen Nguyen

[View the story “#DDD3: Day Two” on Storify]

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#DDD3: Day One Recap

May 22, 2015January 25, 2023 Colleen Nguyen

[View the story “#DDD3: Day One” on Storify]

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Epidemics MOOC: Expanding Free Access to Education

September 24, 2014January 25, 2023 Emily Cohn

MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) have been heralded as the future of learning. The New York Times dubbed 2012 as ‘The Year of the MOOC’.

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Polio: What Happens to a Vaccine-Preventable Disease When Vaccination Is Prevented?

July 18, 2014January 25, 2023 user

Polio is a highly infectious disease that mainly affects children under age five and leads to irreversible paralysis in about one of every 200 cases.

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