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President Washington’s Oft-forgotten War Against the Smallpox Epidemic
“When historians debate Washington’s most consequential decisions as commander in chief, they are almost always arguing about specific...

Keith McGuinness
Feb 15, 2021
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A Precision Medicine Case Study: Contrasting Medical and Legal Standards of Evidence
“Our medical system is shifting from a one-size-fits-all approach [ ] to targeting health care to a patient’s unique molecular and...

Keith McGuinness
Sep 25, 2020
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Vitamin D Status and COVID-19 Risk
A retrospective study of 489 hospitalized patients showed a risk of 1.77 times greater for contracting Covid-19 if one’s vitamin D level...

Thomas McKnight, MD, MPH, MDIV
Sep 10, 2020
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Reproductive Health - Stress is a Double Whammy
Stress is known to decrease fertility and sexual behavior, but researchers thought this was because stress hormones reduce levels of a...

Kevin McGuinness
Sep 8, 2020
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Obesity is as much a psychological problem, as it is a physical one
Psychological issues can not only foreshadow the development of obesity, but they can also follow ongoing struggles to control weight....

Kevin McGuinness
Sep 8, 2020
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Effect on Immune Response of Chronic Stress vs Episodic Severe Stress
"Many studies have demonstrated that psychological stress, through its suppression of both innate and adaptive immune responses, may be...

Kevin McGuinness
Sep 8, 2020
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Migraine and Repeated Stressors
"Migraine offers a unique model to understand the consequences of repeated stressors on the brain." "...the effects of repeated stress...

Kevin McGuinness
Sep 8, 2020
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Polio: Lessons from American History
My father contracted polio in the 1930s. Although he eventually recovered, the disease took a permanent toll on his body. This essay, by...

Keith McGuinness
Aug 31, 2020
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Normal Weight Children with FTO Gene Variant Eat More than Peers
Children who have a variance at the FTO gene (also known as the obesity gene), unconsciously, consume more calories than their peers....

Thomas McKnight, MD, MPH, MDIV
Aug 28, 2020
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A Curious Connection Between Tinnitus and Physical Activity
A study out of the University of Illinois revealed not only that those who have tinnitus process emotional sounds differently than those...

Kevin McGuinness
Aug 27, 2020
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Exit to Community - aligned incentives for a new health system?
“It's the business model, stupid,” to paraphrase an old campaign statement to fit our persistent health system dilemma. “What if [health...

Keith McGuinness
Aug 22, 2020
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Manage Stress, COVID-19's Companion
Today, the companion of stress is Covid-19 (Coronavirus). Since 1 March 2020 the individual, community, national and global experience of...

Thomas McKnight, MD, MPH, MDIV
Aug 14, 2020
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Precision Nutrition - 2030
“Research on the field of precision nutrition will help increase understanding of the therapeutic relationships among food, medications,...

Keith McGuinness
Aug 12, 2020
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Nutrigenetics, Epigenetics, Nutrigenomics, Metabolomics, the Microbiome and the NIH
Healthy or sick, learning how food and genes interact is as fundamental as understanding one’s family history. In its recently released...

Keith McGuinness
Aug 11, 2020
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Genes and the Heart/Brain Connection
“The complex network that links the heart, brain and the main biological systems provides a new vision of cardiovascular science[, which...

Kevin McGuinness
Aug 5, 2020
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CoQ-10 Genetics, Statins and Pain
Years ago, while working at an Air Force (AF) base, four active duty members came to see me with diffuse muscle pain in their legs,...

Thomas McKnight, MD, MPH, MDIV
Aug 3, 2020
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Stress and polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) in women
“Stress is an invisible factor affecting modern day living and is strongly associated with many disease [processes] including polycystic...

Kevin McGuinness
Jul 31, 2020
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Low Vitamin D Levels & Covid-19 Death
Multiple studies from various countries of patients struggling with Covid-19 have shown the lower one’s serum vitamin D level the more...

Thomas McKnight, MD, MPH, MDIV
Jul 30, 2020
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Osteoporotic Fracture and Psychological Stress
"With the aging of the population, osteoporotic fracture is an important public health issue. Both animal and human studies indicate that...

Kevin McGuinness
Jul 30, 2020
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Chronic Stress and Biologic Aging
“Chronic psychological stress appears to accelerate biological aging, and oxidative damage is an important potential mediator of this...

Kevin McGuinness
Jul 29, 2020
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