COVID-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
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Racial 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 moreSmoking Addiction or Severe Loneliness? Science Says Their Effects Are the Same
KRISTIN KEITH – Since its unprecedented spread to the United States in early March, the novel coronavirus has resulted in more than 42,000 deaths across the country. It has infected
Read moreCompounding Pharmacies
MORENIKE ISOLA – For over a century, compounding pharmacies have remained an industry of great controversy due to their perceived benefits in contrast with the risk they bring on people’s
Read moreThe Pathophysiology of COVID-19
AHMAD NISAR – Exploring the pathophysiology of a disease is like dissecting a machine to understand how its individual parts — its gears, nuts, wires, and bolts — interlock and
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Leera Scholarship Winner – Visual | Asma Hashim
Read morePersonal Health during a Global Pandemic: How Some Americans May be Forced to Choose between this and Financial Stability
Leera Scholarship Winner – Written | Marie-Anais Benot Some of us may have predicted the Australian fires would be the most defining event of 2020. But a global coronavirus pandemic
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 moreReview: “The Ghost Map”
STEPHEN JOSEPH – The Ghost Map chronicles the work of English physician John Snow during the 1854 cholera outbreak in London. Dr. Snow, now considered one of the founders of
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