The importance of teaching disease ecology to the medical professionals of the future
Krisztian Magori, disease ecologist and Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at Eastern Washington University, argues for the importance of exposing… Read more »
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Beyond ‘surviving’ with HIV: living proof of why the paradigm must change
Co-authors Jeffrey Lazarus & Kelly Safreed-Harmon share a high point from a recent meeting of the HIV Outcomes initiative, which is co-chaired by… Read more »
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Height, obesity and prostate cancer risk: the importance of looking at different tumour characteristics
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