Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
Genome Editing: An Experimental Cure for Sickle Cell Disease
By Joshua A. Bougadis. Sickle Cell Disease is a group of hereditary red blood cell disorders that has become a focal point...
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Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
- Jan 25
- 5 min
Monkeypox: An Unintended Consequence of Smallpox Eradication
By Adwaith Hariharan. 40 years ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) certified smallpox as eradicated...
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Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
- Jan 7
- 2 min
Telomere Length: A Potential Cure for Alzheimer’s Disease
With rapid advancement in the understanding of human metabolism, the average lifespan has been increasing globally...
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Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
- Nov 5, 2022
- 3 min
Understanding the Multi-Country Outbreak of Monkeypox
Monkeypox is a rare but potentially serious viral disease caused by a virus belonging to the Orthopoxvirus genus...
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Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
- Nov 4, 2022
- 10 min
Impact of Health Education in Promoting Disease Preventative Behaviors Among High School Students
Health education is a common state-mandated requirement for students in primary and secondary education level...
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Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
- Oct 16, 2022
- 3 min
Artificial Intelligence: How it is Taking the World of Healthcare by Storm
With the rise of medical catastrophes that have forced us to immediately address the world's most pressing medical issues, AI has already...
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Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
- Oct 15, 2022
- 4 min
Monkeypox, A New Pandemic?
On July 23, 2022 a new, rapidly spreading, and severe disease was declared a public health emergency of international concern...
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Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
- Sep 5, 2022
- 5 min
Sight for the Future: Eliminating Trachoma's Prevalence in Impoverished Areas
With its contagious nature, trachoma has blinded or visually impaired 1.9 million people worldwide, declaring this the most devastating...
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Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
- Sep 3, 2022
- 5 min
Chronic NCDs: The Invisible Epidemic and the Looming Threat to Global Health
Chronic noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are currently the leading cause of death in the world...
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Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
- Sep 1, 2022
- 4 min
Skin Cancer: A Growing Public Health Crisis
Skin cancer is a global epidemic approaching millions of cases annually on a worldwide scale. The prevalence of skin cancer varies...
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Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
- Aug 31, 2022
- 4 min
The COVID-19 Pandemic and its Effects on the Preventative Measures and Treatment of Tuberculosis
The aid and programs created by developed countries to help those suffering from TB have been proven to be successful, but...
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Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
- Feb 26, 2022
- 7 min
The Obesity Epidemic: Why and How
John Voudouris and Alexander Janczewski, Upper Canada College, Toronto, Ontario Introduction This statistic may shock you–or perhaps...
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Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
- Jan 25, 2022
- 4 min
An Overview of Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia: A Fast-Progressing Cancer of the Bone Marrow Cells
Annie Hu, Collierville High School, Collierville, Tennessee, USA Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL) is a type of cancer that occurs in the...
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Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
- Jan 13, 2022
- 5 min
Monoclonal Antibodies as a Cancer Treatment: Past, Present and Future
John Voudouris, Upper Canada College, Toronto, Ontario, Canada For decades, scientists have been perplexed by one of the world's most...
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Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
- Jan 5, 2022
- 5 min
The Looming Diabetes Epidemic in Developing South Asian Countries
Samay Boorgu, Florence High School, Florence, Alabama, USA SUMMARY According to a 2020 report of the International Diabetes Federation,...
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Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
- Dec 30, 2021
- 5 min
Blood Tests: An Accessible, Non-Invasive Technique to Diagnose Localized Cancers
Namrata Venkatesan, Jesuit High School, Beaverton, Oregon, USA There are over 100 types of cancer, and approximately 1 in 2 people will...
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Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
- Oct 29, 2021
- 4 min
The Water Quality Crisis in Developing Countries
Saanvi Vemareddy, Rock Ridge High School and Academies of Loudoun, Ashburn, Virginia, USA According to the U.S. National Academies of...
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Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
- Oct 17, 2021
- 4 min
Inequity in Human-Genomics Research Leads to Health Disparities
Eric Choi, Seoul International School, Gyeonggi-do, Seongnam-si, South Korea Next-generation sequencing (NGS) provides massive sequencing...
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Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
- Oct 14, 2021
- 9 min
Antibiotic Resistance and Phage Therapy as an Alternative Antimicrobial Treatment
Danielle Hyunjung Cho, Yongsan International School of Seoul, Seoul, Republic of Korea The Threat of Antibiotic Resistance Since the...
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Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
- Oct 9, 2021
- 5 min
Clinical Efficacy of the Length of Antibiotic Treatment for Pediatric Community-Acquired Pneumonia
Ellen Kang, Yorba Linda High School, Yorba Linda, California, USA ABSTRACT Objective: To compare the effectiveness and rates of adverse...
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