Suicide Prevention & Awareness
DALTON HILL – As students are coming back to campus and adjusting to our new reality, varieties of different mental health disorders have exceedingly increased. With an influx of COVID-19
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Current State of Sexual Education and Inadequacies of Sexual Health Literacy
MORENIKE ISOLA – Sexual health education is an essential tool that can help our youth make more informed decisions about their reproductive health and physical well being. As the rate
Read moreCOVID-19 Vaccine Updates
STEPHEN JOSEPH – Vaccine development is usually a lengthy process that takes several years, and often doesn’t produce safe or effective vaccines. However, there is widespread optimism that a vaccine
Read moreRacial Risk Factors
ISHAN VAISH – Risk factors for Covid-19 range from obesity to asthma. Scientists estimate that almost 47% of the population currently possesses one or more of these risk factors, and
Read moreDon’t Look into the Light!: The Dazzling Neuroscience Technique of Optogenetics
ISABELLE RIDDLE – Francis Crick, known by most as the father of modern genetics, once lamented, in a 1979 research article, the serious roadblocks he foresaw for the field of
Read moreThe Digitalization of Medicine and the Era of Social Media
COURTENEY MALIN – Medicine, like the rest of the world, is susceptible to the changes brought by technology and the prevalence of social media. Digital patient files can be accessed
Read moreNarrative Medicine: A Bridge Between Healthcare and the Humanities
MUHAMMAD SIDDIQ – As a pre-med English Major, I’ve been met with a variety of responses upon telling people my academic interests: “Whoa, I didn’t know you could do that.”
Read moreThe Coronavirus in Perspective
STEPHEN JOSEPH – Headlines and Twitter feeds have run rampant over the past several days, sensationalizing the extent of the coronavirus and promoting irrational fear among the public. While the
Read moreStem Cell Research and Development
ARCHIE PATEL – Stem cell research and therapy has become a very hopeful and advanced, albeit controversial, scientific research topic in recent years. Stem cells are unspecialized cells of the
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