With more and more of us who've had cancer living longer past our initial diagnoses, we need to get real and face that we can be more vulnerable to future – and sometimes preventable – issues than non-survivors.
As a supporter of the decriminalization of marijuana and the benefits the industry will bring, including natural medicines and a larger tax base, the last thing I want to see is new entrepreneurs in the space get snagged for preventable issues.
In addition to these preventable issues, GWA studies have attracted more fundamental criticism, mainly because of their assumption that common genetic variation plays a large role in explaining the heritable variation of common disease.
We also identified that although adverse events are infrequent, preventable issues are readily recognised.
Tobacco smoking is the most preventable health issue in Australia [ 1] and worldwide [ 2].
Rates along the U.S.-Mexico border are often even more extreme.[ 5, 15- 19] Given this stark health disparity, diabetes was recently identified as the prevailing preventable health issue among colonias residents.[ 6] However, this health disparity is further accentuated when considering additional health and economic disparities.
81, 82, 84, 87 We suggest that single nucleotide polymorphism-based risk models, derived from well designed epidemiological studies, may allow the translation of recent advances in genomic medicine to personalized medicine to address what remains the single biggest and most preventable health issue of the 21st century.
There is also a deep and growing conviction among evangelicals and Catholics that the "life issues" also extend to the 30,000 children who die globally each day from poverty and preventable disease, issues of genocide in places like Darfur, human trafficking, the domestic issues of poverty and health care, the foreign policy issues of war and peace, and even in threats like climate change.
Witnessing the living conditions of the Kintampo communities reminded me of those of rural Guatemala where my grandmother and mother lived, and I realized then that my passion for maternal and child public health nutrition research stems from the dietary challenges my mother and grandmother had to deal with and the preventable health issues they later faced.
In the factories where HERproject has worked, we see many common (and preventable) health issues: anemia, reproductive tract infections and unsafe sexual activities.
