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Blood Sugar Blackouts in the Backcountry

Fellow Heather Sherr

Kimberly Bertrand

Fellow Heather Sherr

The Lesser-Known Killer

Fellow Jude Sleiman

Channeling Health

Fellow Jude Sleiman

Brick by Brick: Vaccine Clinics in Schools

Fellow Heather Sherr

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06.15.2018 Torso with shingles blisters

Personalizing Shingles

Shingles is painful and can result in complications that can impact patients financially, but many adults opt not to receive shingles vaccination.

Fellow Sampada Nandyala

06.06.2018 a map of the united states

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Chronic Disease

Cancer Mortality Across the US

Although cancer mortality has declined across the United States since 1980, but a few cancers are on the rise and clustered in particular counties.

Fellow Erin Polka

05.31.2018 Graph comparing receipt and timeliness of breast cancer care in the US vs US territories

US Territories and Breast Cancer Care

Women in US territories are less likely to receive timely diagnosis and recommended care for breast cancer than women living in continental United States.

Fellow Sampada Nandyala

05.17.2018 a close-up of a microscope

Disease

The Microbiome and the Public's Health

Each of us is a living ecosystem with trillions of microorganisms living on and in us, our microbiome. Each of us has her own collection of such microbes, inhabiting skin, mouth, gut, lungs.

Guest Author Sandro Galea

Editor Michael Stein

03.26.2018 a group of cupcakes with medical symbols

Disease

Clinical Pharmacy Innovations and Team-Based Healthcare

Clinical pharmacy specialists make significant contributions to patient care and are recognized as performing as well as physicians in managing chronic disease.

Guest Author Megan McCullough

02.09.2018 Graphic showing estimated P. falciparum and P. vivax malaria cases by WHO region

Preventing Malaria

Africa carries a larger burden of malaria than all other regions of the world combined. The most effective ways of preventing malaria, bed nets and indoor insecticide spraying, are more challenging than they sound.

Fellow Gilbert Benavidez

01.31.2018 a graph of different colored circles

Non-Communicable Disease in Low and Middle Income Countries

Non-communicable diseases, such as cardiovascular and respiratory disease, diabetes, and depression, cause 70% of deaths globally.

Fellow Gilbert Benavidez

12.01.2017 Graph of reaching ART 90% coverage by 2020 under two assumptions about future HIV transmission

The End of AIDS is in the Details

The United Nations’ Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has a goal to eradicate AIDS by 2030. One of the most difficult facets of reaching the end of AIDS, they say, will be knowing when we’ve gotten there.

Fellow Madeline Bishop

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