Month: December 2019

BY SANIA QAZI – Undocumented immigrant communities in the United States are a constant fixture in our political discourse. There are approximately 12 million undocumented immigrants currently living in the

BY AHMAD NISAR – Medicine should be the ‘great equalizer.’ At the morphological level, the human body has remained remarkably constant in form and function despite the enormous geographic spread

BY SASHA STOGINY – Why do we think in terms of generations?  People are born continuously.So why do we sort them into groups by birth year and set arbitrary cutoffs?

BY ISHAN VAISH – On November 22nd, the CDC reported an outbreak of E. Coli in romaine lettuce coming from Salinas, California. With over forty people already infected, the outbreak

ISABELLE RIDDLE – On lazy afternoons, my roommates and I indulge ourselves in marathon watch-parties of My 600-Pound Life on TLC. Recently, this pastime led to a heated debate among

BY COURTENEY MALIN – Seemingly, parasites are isolated to their hosts, only infecting and inconveniencing the organism to which they belong. However, parasites could influence their hosts beyond physical changes

BY SRIJA SOMAKA – The most vulnerable population in our country is also the most overlooked; children’s access to healthcare is on the decline. Pediatrics – the branch of medicine

BY STEPHEN JOSEPH – Mental health is currently a controversial issue in the United States. Mental health awareness has certainly increased over the past several years, especially after the tragic

BY SURAYA MOHIDUl – What are PLAs? A peer learning assistant (PLA) is an undergraduate student who helps students in a course in which they were previously successful. PLAs are