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A Priori Tumor Grading Scale to Triage and Schedule Post COVID-19 Mohs Surgery Patients
The United States is slowly relaxing stay-at-home orders and reopening businesses to reverse the nation’s ailing economy after the spread of the coronavirus that killed millions of jobs and pummeled the global economy. The virus was initially identified as a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, Hubei Province of China. Later reclassified as a Novel… →
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IN THE CONTEXT OF DATA COLLECTION — IS BIGGER BETTER? Can big data help in our fight against COVID-19?
The traditional researcher concept that big data equates statistical significance should not eclipse the importance of understanding the interrelationship between the effect size, power, and sample size that could translate to both practical and statistical significance. It is critical to be guided by a working theory that gives birth to a useful solution to any… →
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Blast from the Past: Revisiting the Significance of Therapeutic Potential of Psilocybin
Research on the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs fell into a hiatus in the past decades until scientists from the United States, Switzerland, and Germany began its revival, exploring its biochemical and physiologic effects in combination with psychotherapy. In the 1950s to the mid-1960s, tens of thousands of patients are estimated to have been treated… →
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Bridging Cancer Epidemiology and Social Evolution
Modern epidemiology is a direct result of the paradigm shift from a population-based (upstream) to a downstream (individual) approach. The impact of modern epidemiology such as ‘molecular’ and ‘genetic’ epidemiology (Loomis & Wing, 1990; Diez-Roux, 1998) requires an explanatory power that mostly dependent upon the advances in technology and information systems. Moreover, before estimating the… →
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From an Evolutionary Model to the Unified Paradigm of Cancer Causation (UPCC)
Three essential events launched the field of cancer epidemiology during the 18th century. First, is Bernardino Ramazzini’s study on cervical cancer in 1713, the research of Percival Pott in 1775 that led the way on occupational carcinogenic exposure studies, and Thomas Venner on the danger of tobacco use in his Via Recta, published in London… →
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Continuing the Journey to Make a Difference
Since I am just returning to full time consulting after being hooded last week, my eyes are on the consulting in applied public health epidemiology, Mohs Histopathology, and staff/medical practice development. Do you need a research and report Writer? A medical copy writer? A technical writer? Need a content writer? Need help with your dissertation?… →
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An Executive Summary
Pathopoiesis Mechanism of Smoking and Shared Genes in Pancreatic Cancer DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.33028.63362 To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks the real advance in science (Einstein & Infeld, 1938, p. 92). Pancreatic cancer (PC) at the start of the 21st century continues to be… →