United States Military Tropical Medicine: Extraordinary Legacy, Uncertain Future

PHS Junior Officer Advisory Group: the future of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.

A Global Social Support System: What the International Community Could Learn From the United States’ National Basketball Association’s Scheme for Redistribution of New Talent

If global trade were fair, it is argued, then international aid would be unnecessary and inequalities inherent to the economic system would be justifiable. Here, we argue that while global trade is unfair, in part because richer countries set the rules, we believe that additional interventions must go beyond trade regulation and short-term aid to redress inequalities among countries that will p...

“Vaccine Diplomacy”: Historical Perspectives and Future Directions

1 Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 2 Departments of Medical Humanities and Biology, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States of America, 3 James A. Baker III Inst...

Texas and Mexico: Sharing a Legacy of Poverty and Neglected Tropical Diseases

1 Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Section of Pediatric Tropical Medicine, Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology, and National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 2 Laboratorio de Parasitologı́a, Centro De Investigaciones Regional ‘‘Dr. Hideo Noguchi’’, Au...

A Pilot Study of FDG-PET/CT in Polycythemia Vera Using Global Analysis Techniques

Objective(s): Functional imaging presents a non-invasive process that may capture the hyper-metabolic nature of red bone marrow in myeloproliferative neoplasms, such as polycythemia vera (PV). Methods: This study analyzed the FDG-PET/CT scans (n=12) of six patients diagnosed with PV and six age-sex matched controls using a quantitative global analysis methodol...