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A Global Health Preventive Medicine Overture: Lycopene as an Anticancer and Carcinopreventive Agent in the Deterrence of Cervical Cancer Liking Lycopene

Cervical cancer is a global healthcare concern for all women; it respects no geographical boundaries. Cervical cancer involves substantial costs not only in treatment but also in productivity lost. Prevention and screening programs have helped slow the rising incidence of cervical cancer, but more needs to be done. Preventive measures by way of diet should be considered. Certain familiar natural food sources, especially the tomato, contain in abundance a bioactive compound, lycopene. Lycopene is a lipid-soluble compound, and constitutes more than 80% of total tomato carotenoids in fully red-ripe fruits [1]. Lycopene has demonstrated potent antioxidant properties as well as chemopreventive and anticancer properties [2]. Lycopene, being adequate and bioavailable in the tomato’s raw form, becomes enhanced and more bioactive when heated as in cooking. Adverse effects of lycopene are rare; in an overdose (or an allergic reaction) any adverse effects are easily reversible. The potential benefits and lack of adverse effects bode well for taking the next step in proposing research into using natural sources of lycopene, such as the tomato, on a global basis for preventing and reducing the incidence of cervical cancer.

Nicholas A Kerna1,2* 


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Epidemiological Consideration: The Epidemic of AMR; A Global Crisis A Final Call to Action

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is, worldwide, one of the most critical public health threats that humanity currently faces. AMR reduces clinical efficacy and increases treatment costs.

Nicholas A Kerna1,2* 


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Communication among Physicians and Allied Healthcare Associates: The Language of Numbers, and the Value of Biostatistics to the Medical Student, Physician, and Patient

Results of public health programs are enhanced through superior communication among project members. In public health, communication requires a medium of language. This medium could be verbal language, sign language, body language or, in the case of biostatistics, a language of numbers (derived mostly from the computation of formulae).

Nicholas A Kerna¹,²*

 

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Communication among Physicians and Allied Healthcare Associates: Precise Radiology Reports

The radiology report is one of the most vital diagnostic tools available to the physician. Therefore, the radiology report should be written in a consistent format containing basic, but necessary and essential, information.

Nicholas A Kerna¹,²*


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Communication among Physicians and Allied Healthcare Associates: The Role and Rank of Medical Terminology in Surgery, Public Health, and the History of Medicine

Throughout modern history, there has been increased use of individual and unit-specific terms that have ultimately led to a wide range of terminology that describes the same area

Nicholas A Kerna¹,²*