From the first reported case of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on December 30, 2019 in Wuhan, China, the number of confirmed cases of the disease has been increased continuously and exponentially up to now. The event has emerged as a clear threat to global health such that the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared the outbreak of the disease a pandemic on March 11, 2020. The ...

Introduction: The need for global health training for early-career family medicine physicians is greater than the supply. This paper details the formation of a one-year, self-funded global health fellowship for early-career family medicine physicians. Methods: In August of 2012, the University of Washington Department of Family Medicine established a self...

Neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, motor neuron disease and Alzheimer’s disease is characterized by loss of specific cells within certain regions of the brain. One of the most compelling questions is to determine why specific cell populations are vulnerable to neurodegeneration. We addressed this question by studying global gene expression changes using an animal model of ...

Neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, motor neuron disease and Alzheimer’s disease is characterized by loss of specific cells within certain regions of the brain. One of the most compelling questions is to determine why specific cell populations are vulnerable to neurodegeneration. We addressed this question by studying global gene expression changes using an animal model of ...

all people need food. unsafe foods; however, may cause diseases ranging from diarrhea to cancer. chemicals in food are a worldwide health concern. in 2006, the world health organization (who) organized a consultation on the global burden of foodborne diseases. work to estimate this burden began in 2007 and was carried out by the who foodborne disease burden epidemiology reference group (ferg), ...

B ehçet’s disease is a multisystem disorder named after the Turkish dermatologist, Hulusi Behçet (1889–1948), who recognised and reported in 1937 a triad of symptoms consisting of recurrent eye inflammation, oral ulcers and genital ulcers. The disease had also been alluded to in descriptions by physicians as far back as Hippocrates. Behçet’s disease is particularly common in the Far East and th...

infectious bursal disease virus (ibdv) is the causative agent of gumboro disease, an infectious disease of global economic importance in poultry. the expression of heterologous proteins in p.pastoris is fast, simple and inexpensive. in this study, vp2 encoding gene of classical d78 ibdv was amplified using reverse transcription (rt) polymerase chain reaction (pcr) and cloned into ppiczαa vector...