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The Future Of Medicine: How Telemedicine Could Combat Epidemics

The phrase “six degrees of separation” has its roots in the 1969 small-world experiment of Stanley Milgram. He distributed packages to citizens in Omaha and gave them only the most skeletal information about the unknown rec...

by Brandon Engel

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Vaccine Politics: Immunity Under Threat In The West

Last week we saw how the global drive to eradicate polio has suffered a serious setback due to the politicisation of vaccination efforts and prolonged violence in certain areas of the planet. However, it would be a mistake to a...

by Daniel Cavanillas

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Vaccine Politics : The Return Of A Global Threat

It was not long ago that a crippled man became the most powerful person on the planet. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the longest-serving President of the United States, a man who helped take the country out of an economic depre...

by Daniel Cavanillas

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World Malaria Day: Famous People Who Died Because Of Malaria And How I Found Them Out

It was April last year and I was preparing for my trip to India. My mum was frantically asking me to change my mind and stay safe in England, rather then go to that land of exotic diseases. Around the same time I started taking...

by Paula Munteanu

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The Future Of Medicine: How Telemedicine Could Combat Epidemics

Vaccine Politics: Immunity Under Threat In The West

Vaccine Politics : The Return Of A Global Threat

World Malaria Day: Famous People Who Died Because Of Malaria And How I Found Them Out

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