Welcome to the Medical Research Group epidemiologic website. This website aims to educate, publish, and discuss significant results from medical studies. Humans will continue to be at war with pathogenic microorganisms as long as they live. These microbes are capable of causing diseases that can lead to severe illnesses and even deaths. Microorganisms invade and multiply in human cells damaging the cells and resulting in numerous disease conditions. Examples of these microorganisms include but are not limited to bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites. They are referred to as microorganisms because they are not visible to the human eyes. They can only be viewed in the labs using high-level microscopes. While humans may benefit from some of these microorganisms, pathogenic microbes are dangerous and deadly to the human immune system. Pathogens target human immune systems, thereby creating chains of other diseases that can lead to conditions like common cold, malaria, cancer, diabetes, hypertension, HIV, AIDS, and even COVID-19 related infections.
Hospitals and several other healthcare centers use the ICD-10-CM to account for and code disease conditions based on WHO’s version of the ICD-10-CM. The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) developed a new Procedure Coding System (ICD-10-PCS) for inpatient procedures in the U.S. These codebooks change from time to time to account for new disease conditions as they emerge. ICD-10-CM consists of over 14,000 codes that denote a variety of disease conditions (google.2022).This is an example of the battalions of diseases facing humans that scientists are militating.
Because of the devastative nature of the microbial army on humans, weaponized institutions like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), World Health Organization (WHO), Pan American Health Organizations (PAHO), The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), The United Nations Children Fund Organization (UNICEF), and State Public Health Agencies, to mention but a few were established to collectively coordinate, direct and fund health programs to help alleviate human sufferings due to diseases. They organize and fund research studies to help reduce the effect of pathogenic microbes on humans. However, this has not been an easy task. According to an article published in SCOPE, despite the millions of dollars spent by these organizations and the technological advances in biomedical sciences in the last 20 years, some processes are still time-consuming and prone to failure (Shaikh-Lesko, 2014). Some microbes will fight back by mutating at an alarming rate, making it almost impossible to find a cure or treatment option to destroy them. As these organizations and agencies work around the clock, newer devastating microbes emerge and sometimes claim thousands of lives each year. For example, in 2019, COVID, out of nowhere, sprung up and took the world at a surprise, killing millions of people worldwide. Within a short period, under our own eyes, COVID had mutated from DELTA B.1.617.2 to the OMICRON B.1.1.529 variant (CDC, 2022).
As families still mourn their loved ones from the deaths caused by different disease conditions such as COVID and cancer, the inquiry minds continue to wonder if SCIENCE has given up on its promises to help alleviate these conditions. Despite some failures in finding cures for some of these diseases, scientists are working hard and progressively making notable improvements. They continue to record tremendous improvements in their struggle to alleviate diseases and the microbes that cause them. Please click the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Report – Ten Great Public Health Achievements using the link below to see some of these developments.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6019a5.htm
So much is going on in the background that most people do not know or see. These include preventive measures that have helped save millions of lives. Part of the reason for this website is to focus on some of these studies and bring them into the spotlight and review notable epidemiologic and scientific developments.