Advice from a Medical Student
By Laurence Black “Choose medicine because you have a passion for science and the human body that would not be fulfilled by any other profession,” says Katherine Menezes, a first-year
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How 3-D Printing Is Revolutionizing Medicine
By: Hammad Khalid 3-D printing is the process of making a three-dimensional solid object from a digital model. This futuristic process first began in the 1980s. Recently, the 3-D printing
Read moreSocial Hostility Shouldn’t be a Side Effect of Mental Health Disorders
By: Juhi Varshney A mental illness is a condition that affects a person’s thoughts and emotions to the extent that it interferes with their ability to complete their regular daily
Read moreHow Ancient Medicine Reveals Modern Medicine’s Change of Focus
By: Chiara Tondi Resta At the end of March, the UGA Classics department’s hard work finally culminated in the long-planned, two-day lecture event, “Ancient Medicine and the Modern Physician.” The
Read morePerformance Enhancing Drugs in the Olympic Games
By: Amna Jamshad Performance enhancing drugs date back to the ancient Olympics, during which athletes would consume products such as caffeine rich drinks, brandy, and exotic meats in order to
Read moreDrugMint: Virtual Screening Server
By: Michelle Vu DrugMint derived the criteria for a drug-like molecule from the similarities among experimental and marketed drugs in the DrugBank database. For example, this analysis suggested that druglike
Read moreEliza Ann Grier, A Pioneer Against the Odds
By: Juhi Varshney It seems impossible to imagine American medicine without a rich diversity of healthcare professionals, but not long ago many people were denied the ability to practice because
Read moreWomen in Medicine: The Legacy of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
By: Erica Lee Smallpox: a devastating but distant disease . The last naturally-occurring case was in 1977, and the few remaining samples of the variola virus stay safely locked away
Read moreWhen Worlds Come Together
By: Chiara Tondi Resta Many undergraduate students concerned with their future careers choose to take a traditional “track,” such as pre-medicine, pre-law or pre-pharmacy. Although each of these disciplines is independent
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