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Hidden In Plain Sight

Fellow Farah Nimeri

The Sound of Survival, and the Silence of Survivorship

Fellow Aidan Stotz

Cancer In the Shadow of Nuclear Plants

Fellow Rowena Lindsay

My Disease Is Not Benign In Any Sense of the Word

Fellow Rowena Lindsay

Chronic Kidney Disease Is a Global Heart Risk Hiding In Plain Sight

Fellow Aidan Stotz

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09.27.2018 Graph comparing rates of Black Lung in the US, Central Appalachia, and the US excluding Central Appalachia

Resurgence of Black Lung in Central Appalachia

The Coal Workers’ Health Surveillance Program (CWHSP) was created to identify and stop the progression of black lung in coal miners. However, coal miners in central Appalachia are experiencing a resurgence of black lung.

Fellow Chrissy Packtor

09.25.2018 Graph showing percentage of adults 35+ who receive all recommended preventive services

Preventive Care Deficit

Only 8% of surveyed adults age 35 and older received all recommended high-priority clinical preventive services.

Fellow Sampada Nandyala

07.18.2018 Young woman with google in tanning bed

Preventing Tan-cer

Recently the CDC evaluated relationships between state indoor tanning laws and indoor tanning behaviors among high school students.

Fellow Chrissy Packtor

06.20.2018 a diagram of a graph

HIV from Silverware? Fork No!

Even though accurate information has been widely available for over three decades, misperceptions about HIV transmission persist.

Fellow Chrissy Packtor

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

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

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