Dr. Elizabeth Mammen-Prasad was elected as the President of Medical Staff at the East Orange General Hospital for 2020-2021. She is an infectious disease specialist working in New Jersey. She is also the
elected Chairperson of the World Malayali Council, All Women NJ Province for years 2020-2022. This is a social group involved in community activities of the Malayalee diaspora and local community. The forum promotes seminars on health, science,as well as cultural,music and arts programs and provides mentorship and leadership program for future young leaders.
Cancer. The word itself strikes fear, bringing to mind a disease that feels like a betrayal from within. As the world's number-two killer, its a subject of immense research, with over a million papers published in the last fifty years alone. But what if our understanding of cancer is fundamentally flawed? What if this seemingly modern disease is not a chaotic accident of our genes, but a ghost of our evolutionary past, an ancient survival mechanism gone rogue? This perspective, while perhaps surprising, is gaining traction among scientists. It suggests that cancer is not a new invention of damaged cells, but a reversion to an older, more primitive way of life. To truly grasp this idea, we must embark on a journey back in time, over a billion years, to the very dawn of multicellular life. The Great Evolutionary Leap: From Individualism to Community For a staggering two billion years, life on Earth consisted solely of single-celled organisms. Their imperative was simple and si...

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