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Aarthi Arun
Dec 12, 20213 min read
Melanoma Diagnosis: A Digital Development
Cancer is a disease that often proves to be a race against time. The sooner a diagnosis can be made, the more effectively a patient can...
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Ryan Levine
Dec 12, 20213 min read
Lessons from Covid: A New Approach to Vaccination
If there is one thing we have learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, it is that we were not nearly as prepared for a pandemic as we should...
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Jerome Dovan
Dec 12, 20214 min read
Clinical Microbiology Automation: Not Quite an Automatic Decision
It is hard to imagine the sheer impact of recent budget cuts, reduced reimbursements, and severe staff shortages within the healthcare...
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Gavin Zhou
Dec 12, 20215 min read
CAR T Cells: Immunotherapy’s Rise in Healthcare
Surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy — the three traditional pillars of cancer treatment. They have served cancer patients well for...
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Sharon Ng
Dec 12, 20213 min read
Stigma and Medicaid: A Struggle for Health Equity
Before the expansion of Medicaid, the inability to afford health insurance proved to be one of the largest barriers to healthcare for...
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Athira Lalu
Dec 12, 20214 min read
Injustice in Genomic Research
The Kalaupapa Peninsula lies hidden on the north coast of the island of Molokai, niched into a 2,000-foot sea cliff wall and surrounded...
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Krupa Sekhar
Dec 12, 20214 min read
Our Healthcare System: Built to Discriminate
“Black Americans are dying at three times the rate of White Americans due to COVID-19” [1]. The news anchor neglects the weight of this...
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Aindri Patra
Dec 12, 20215 min read
The Lost Girls: Gender Bias in Autism
Seventeen medications. Fourteen psychiatrists. Nine diagnoses. Ten years. That’s what it took for Maya to finally be diagnosed with...
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Danielle Smith
Dec 12, 20214 min read
Bystander Assistance During Medical Emergencies by Patient Appearance
Most people assume that they can rely on civic generosity to save them if they experience a medical emergency in public. Popular movies...
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Effat Rahman
Dec 12, 20214 min read
How Race Became a Category in the Medical World
Imagine a typical routine checkup at the doctor’s office. You get your weight and height checked. You give blood and urine samples to the...
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Esha Sheth
Dec 12, 20214 min read
“They Treat Me Like I’m Stupid”: Ageism in Healthcare
While the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to light and magnified many of the health disparities that exist in the United States, one topic...
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Nora Yang
Dec 12, 20214 min read
Playing the Sick Role
Most of us know what it feels like to be sick, shivering under a mound of blankets after catching the flu, sounding like Darth Vader...
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Rachel Peverly
Dec 12, 20213 min read
Breaking The Cycle: Gender Bias In BioPharma
Gender discrimination in biotech and pharmaceutical companies is a matter of complacency amongst industry leaders. The issue is well...
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Eunice Ju
Dec 12, 20213 min read
The Stressful Demands of an EMS Provider
“911, what is your emergency?” The familiar question that gives dispatch the information to send police, firefighters, or emergency...
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Amer Ahmed
Dec 12, 20215 min read
The Booster Dose for COVID-19 Has the Potential to Prevent a Fifth Wave Against the Delta Variant
In the USA, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), there have reportedly been 46 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 752...
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Ngoc Truong
Dec 12, 20213 min read
The Big Bad Buzz
College students are all too familiar with late night study sessions and the struggle to reach seven to eight hours of sleep a night....
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Kaitlyn Lee
Dec 12, 20214 min read
A Hereditary Disaster: Problems with Genetic Test Policies
In 2003, about 3 billion base pairs of the human genome were sequenced, marking not only the completion of the Human Genome Project, but...
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Julianne Franca
Dec 12, 20214 min read
Barriers to Medication Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorders
The opioid epidemic began in the 1990s after pharmaceutical companies falsely claimed that opioid medications were not addictive, and has...
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Sara Hishinuma
Dec 12, 20214 min read
The Right To Die?
Do we have a right to die as much as we have a right to live? How much autonomy do we truly have over our bodies? “What I am saying is...
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