Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
Brain Metastases: A Growing Area of Concern in Breast Cancer
By Aashna Chudgar and Netra Ramanatham. Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers that metastasize, or spread to other areas...
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Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
- Jun 3
- 9 min
A Universal, Efficient Deep-Learning Approach to Various Cancer Detections from miRNA Expressions
By Julia Huang and Justin Huang. According to the National Cancer Institute, 39.5% of individuals globally will be diagnosed with cancer...
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Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
- Apr 28
- 8 min
“The New Gay Plague”: Mixed-Method Analysis of Public Attitudes Toward Mpox
By Tej Shah. Mpox—previously monkeypox—was declared a public health emergency on August 4, 2022, in the United States...
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Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
- Apr 6
- 4 min
Ischemic Heart Disease: A Major Threat to Public Health
By Jacob R Gordon. In recent decades, the global prevalence of ischemic heart disease (IHD) has dramatically increased...
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Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
- Apr 1
- 4 min
Minorities and Multiple Sclerosis
By Pablo Czerkas. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune illness in which the immune system destroys the myelin sheath...
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Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
- Feb 19
- 4 min
Transfusion to Transplantation: Bone Marrow Gene Therapy Has Potential for Treating Beta-Thalassemia
By Ashar Farrukh. Thalassemia is a blood disorder characterized by defects in hemoglobin chain synthesis. There are...
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Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
- Jan 28
- 4 min
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 20
- 3 min
An Investigation Into the Lives of COVID “Long Haulers” and Insight Into an Ongoing Epidemic
A novel issue has presented itself with regards to COVID-19 that does not concern a variant. Long COVID or, as scientists call it...
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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
- 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
- Feb 18, 2022
- 10 min
Impact of COVID-19 on Stroke Treatment in Latin America
Tanusri Gudavalli, Mission San Jose High School, Fremont, California, USA ABSTRACT Acute ischemic stroke (AIS) is a common neurological...
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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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