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World Pneumonia Day

This upcoming Saturday, November 12th, is World Pneumonia Day. While pneumonia is looked at as common and easily preventable/treatable in the United States, it causes more deaths than any other infectious disease in the rest of the world. Every 20 seconds, a child dies from pneumonia somewhere in the world. In respect to World Pneumonia more »

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“Contagion”

If you follow movies, you may have noticed global health making an appearance on the big screen in Steven Soderbergh’s “Contagion” in the past few weeks. The action-thriller follows the outbreak of a deadly, fictional (yet totally plausible) virus as it spreads like wildfire across the globe. While similar to movies in the past, “Contagion” more »

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