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Jan 30, 20212 min read
Diet and Myopia
By: Giles Xu Myopia or nearsightedness is an increasingly prevalent condition in our society. The correlation between myopia and diet was...
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Jan 30, 20212 min read
Aducanumab for Treatment of Early Alzheimer’s Disease
By: Grace Cheung Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive, neurodegenerative disorder that slowly destroys brain cells and causes the...
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Jan 23, 20203 min read
The Fast-Approaching Health Effects of Climate Change
By: Sarah DeBuono In addition to the apparent survival risks human will encounter that are directly impacted by climate change (for...
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Jan 23, 20203 min read
Immune Amnesia
By Isha Verma Epidemic outbreaks have been studied by epidemiologists for centuries. The nature of airborne, waterborne and foodborne...
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Mar 21, 20192 min read
Fighting HIV with Anti-Cancer Immunotherapy
By: Dana Abdel Hafeez A recent article published by ScienceDaily News explores a study from the University of Montreal Hospital Research...
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Mar 21, 20192 min read
The Surprising Link Between Air Pollution and Diabetes
By: Isha Verma There are millions of individuals all over the world who reside in certain countries which are exposed to tons of...
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Mar 19, 20192 min read
A Rising Concern for Health Risks Associated with Vaping
By: Anabela Cotovio Electronic cigarettes (ECIGS) are smoking devices that contains a heating element which produces aerosol for...
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Mar 11, 20192 min read
Epidemiology as a target for Preventative Health care: The Recent Measles Outbreak in B.C.
By: Anabela Cotovio Measles is a highly infectious disease caused by the rubeola virus (Gill, 2017). Symptoms are deceiving at first...
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Mar 9, 20192 min read
Natural Killer Cells
By: Dana Abdel Hafeez Natural killer cells (NK cells) are a class of lymphocytes and an important component of the innate immune system...
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Mar 9, 20192 min read
Revolutionizing Genetics: The Discovery of “Alien” Nitrogenous Bases
By Isha Verma To have a fundamental understanding of genetics, it is important to recognize that the basis of genomic structures depend...
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Feb 26, 20192 min read
Nutrition Epidemiology
Nutritional epidemiology is the study of the relationship between aspects of the diet and occurrence of human illness (1). In the past,...
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Feb 26, 20192 min read
Model Behaviour Part 2: Assumption and the SIR Model
Computer programs can model and extrapolate data about the world surprisingly accurately, some can even out-diagnose doctors [1] and...
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Feb 26, 20191 min read
Welcome to McMaster’s Epi and Biostats Blog!
Our research blog is an opportunity for you to write a post on a current epidemiology and/or biostatistics research topic corresponding...
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