The Legacy of Racism in Modern Medicine

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
Read moreBY 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
Read moreBY 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?
Read moreBY 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
Read moreISABELLE 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
Read moreBY 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
Read moreBY 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
Read moreBY 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
Read moreBY 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
Read moreBY SASHA STOGINY – In today’s world, about one billion adults – two-thirds of whom are women – are illiterate. Although the global literacy rate has grown steadily over the
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