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• Author: Master, Zubin

In North America, the prevalence of cardiovascular diseases, stroke, cancers and obesity are at an all-time high causing severe morbidity and mortality to individuals across the lifespan. Effectively tackling these growing trends will require both a public health focus and major medical advancements targeting therapies to individual patients. Strategies to restore and maintain health through preventative means should be recognized and equally combined with the treatment of illness. While moving forward on these various fronts, the ethical, legal, and social aspects related to public health and medical research ought to be given serious reflection.

Much of modern medicine and public health take multi-and interdisciplinary approaches to increase the health of individuals and populations in an attempt to address the wide array of variables that impact the health of...