Risk Medicine – Who is at Risk…and who is not?

How do we determine who is at risk of disease? How beneficial is it to our health, to be assessed as  ‘at risk’? The parameters of what puts an individual at risk seems, to me, to be constantly evolving. It is an exhausting task to even attempt to keep up with the identification of new risk factors. But is this knowledge of risk beneficial for our health?

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Confronting Cancer: A Critique of the "No Make Up Selfie" Craze

The #nomakeupselfie ‘trend’ that occupied our Facebook news feed for a few weeks in March created a social network phenomenon which in true social ‘trending’ style faded as quickly as it had began. The temporality of the craze itself was insulting, as was the general concept of the nomakeupselfie.

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