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Time For Gut Biome Metagenomics During Annual Physicals And Screening Colonoscopies
My opinion: Eating habits evolve. Purging habits evolve. Sexual habits evolve. The question is never whether such evolution is physiological, pathological, or psychological because evolution is always natural. The only lingering question is regarding how to prepare and adapt according to habits as they evolve. The bottom line for ..
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Zero-Sum Game between Marginalization of Privilege and Privilege of Marginalization
My opinion: There is a famous legend wherein in response to Emperor Akbar’s question to shorten a line without erasing it, his minister Birbal responded by making a larger line next to it [1]. Privilege like many other things in life follows the same pattern. One can only belittle it but can never discard it. Moreover, the story..
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Double-Edged Pandemic, Just Like War, Shedding Off Population Over-A-Barrel At Both Ends
My opinion: By being not born [1-3] and by being dead, pandemic like war [4-8] is leading to so much human suffering individually even though evolutionarily humanity will futuristically term it as population stabilizing strategy (PSS) because humanity does not like to listen to or learn from the evolutionarily stable strategy of..
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Effect of COVID-19 Misinformation Among Adults of the Southern U.S.
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic is the worst health crisis in the world in the last 100 years with devastating effects on human lives and with severe economic and social disruption. Unfortunately there is a lot of misinformation about COVID-19, which is disseminated widely in social media. Misinformation is highly prevalent glob..
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Can Long Straw Sipper Bottle Keep Masked Flyers Calm During Long-Haul Flights? It Maybe Worth Investigating
My opinion: Incidents of bad behavior during flights are growing most likely due to the mandates to wear masks. These badly behaving flyers may blame it all on their intolerance to wearing masks especially during long-haul flights. The critics of these badly behaving flyers may blame it all on these flyers' belief systems p..
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Combatting Human African Trypanosomiasis in Uganda within a decentralized context
My opinion: Combatting Human African Trypanosomiasis in Uganda within a decentralized contextWhile T.b rhodesiense continues to spread from its traditional focus in the South and East, case of T.b gambiense continue to be recorded in north-western Uganda in the West Nile Region. Of particular worry is that these foci are currently..
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Coal Power Station Installations and the Health of Populations: A Review of Evidence and State of the Art in Italy
Abstract : The link that exists between single pollutants and adverse reactions to health has been depicted as a pyramid. At its base are the most common consequences of exposure (increase in prevalence and incidence of respiratory diseases/symptoms and reduction in pulmonary function) and at the top is mortality. Although this l..
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What do POPs require of Children and Environmental Health (CEH) strategy?
Abstract : The European Ministers’ CEH declaration in Budapest 2004 recognised children as specially vulnerable and not ‘little adults’ [1]. It expressed concern over potential toxicity of many chemicals, including carcinogenic, neurotoxic, immunotoxic, genotoxic, endocrine-disrupting and allergenic effects, but particular..
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Global Positioning System: Effective Tool in Protection of Women's Dignity
Abstract: Protection of women’s rights and dignity especially against increasing incidence of sexual assault has embodied as a prime national issue. The Supreme Court of India has had to redefine the term “sexual assault” in a measure to curb this social evil. Cries of increasing protests have resonated in legislative bodi..
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Does The Cornell Medical Index Measure Real Or Perceived Occupational Health?
Abstract : Background. The Cornell Medical Index (CMI) has been widely used to measure health indicators. Although its effectiveness in detecting subjective pathologies has been demonstrated, it has not been evaluated as an epidemiological screening test to detect pathologies contrasted with clinical records. Methods. A cohort sa..
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Impact of hygienic caring of the umbilical cord in the prevention of neonatal tetanus
Abstract: Background: Neonatal tetanus (NNT) remains among the leading causes of deaths among neonates in the developing countries with a recorded 130,000 neonatal deaths in 2004. In addition to immunizing pregnant women with 3 doses of tetanus toxoid vaccine, hygienic delivery of the newborn and caring of the umbilical cord are..
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