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2026 Eric Hoffer Nominee: The Genome of Faith Explored with Kate Delaney with Kate Delaney
My book has been named a nominee for the 2026 Eric Hoffer Book Award for his memoir The Genome of Faith: A Life Unfolding Between Heaven and Earth, placing it among this year’s notable entries. An epidemiologist, public health advocate, and cancer researcher who played a significant role during the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Labilles wrote this… →
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“Neurological and psychiatric risk trajectories in the 2 years after SARS-CoV-2 infection in different age groups and under different variants”
Dr. Maxime Taquet is an NIHR Oxford Health BRC Senior Research Fellow and NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow with clinical psychiatry and engineering backgrounds. Before studying medicine at the University of Oxford, he was a research fellow in engineering at Harvard Medical School and the Boston Children’s Hospital, with which he remained affiliated. He aims to gain a better… →
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Evaluation and Treatment of Post-COVID conditions: The Rehab Medicine Perspective
Dr. Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez is an accomplished academic Physiatrist and Professor and Chair of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at the Long School of Medicine at UT Health San Antonio. She previously was a Medical Director of the Brain Injury and Stroke Program at a top three US News and World Report Best Hospital for Rehabilitation.… →
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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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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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A Promise to a Dying Brother
When I was inducted into the Honor Society in winter 2013, I thought that being on top of my batch will be enough to get me through my journey as a Public Health Ph.D. candidate. Recruiting a dissertation chair is the most challenging so far, especially getting a response from them. What if I do… →
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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… →
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Indoor Tanning and Melanoma: A Public Health Issue
Indoor Tanning and Melanoma: A Public Health Issue Ulysses Labilles and Jennifer Beito In Minnesota and other parts of the U.S., increase melanoma continue to be common among women than men younger than 50 years. Lazovich et al. (2016) highlighted the gap between age- and the sex-specific association studies between indoor tanning and melanoma. It… →
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The Silent Killer: Improving the Understanding of Chagas Disease
The protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi was first described by Carlos Chagas after isolation of the organism from the blood of a Brazilian patient in 1909 (Garcia et al., 2015). An estimated 7.5 to 10 million persons are infected with Chagas disease worldwide (Hotez et al., 2008; Hotez et al., 2014). In the United States, the… →
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Ethical Concepts of the New Public Health
I am currently working on two essays that I needed to submit with my fellowship application, but the event in Paris made me stop for a few minutes and reflect on the scorching reminder that terrorism has no religion, a brand of madness, not faith. Such event amplified the urgency to stress the significance of… →
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