The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), an independent agency under the WHO, released a…
Kailyn KimJanuary 30, 2017
Most of us take clean water for granted—we can talk about how we don't like drinking…
Kailyn KimDecember 15, 2015
The often cited line from Mean Girls is "don't have sex, or you'll get pregnant.…
Kailyn KimDecember 14, 2015
There's been some good news on the vaccine front recently with the very promising Ebola…
Kailyn KimNovember 28, 2015
Chemotherapy is one of several methods of treating cancer. It's the use of powerful drugs…
Kailyn KimNovember 25, 2015
The CDC estimates that 1.2 million people in the United States live with HIV. The…
Kailyn KimNovember 7, 2015
http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/the-lifeport-kidney-transporter-an-automated-device-to-assess-and-picture-id2374557A kidney swap, which can involve "ferrying kidneys between two hospitals", might sound like something…
Kailyn KimNovember 3, 2015
The flu season is now in full swing, but it's never too late to talk about the…
Kailyn KimOctober 26, 2015
The goal of most therapies and drugs in the developmental pipeline is to eventually be…
Kailyn KimOctober 15, 2015
Food poisoning is really no joke: the Listeria outbreak in Blue Bell ice cream has caused…
Kailyn KimOctober 9, 2015
Genome editing used to be the stuff of sci-fi movies, with movies like Gattaca depicting a…
Kailyn KimApril 6, 2015
When you hear the words "public health issue" you might first consider things like the Listeria outbreak…
Kailyn KimMarch 24, 2015
I work in pediatric oncology. In layman's terms, childhood cancer. While my job involves pipetting at…
Kailyn KimMarch 9, 2015
Somebody recently told me about "chicken pox parties," which used to happen after a kid…
Kailyn KimFebruary 13, 2015
Remember the White House's moratorium on virus research? If you don't, that's okay, that's what we're here…
Kailyn KimJanuary 15, 2015
While the idea that neighborhood disparities can have an effect on health is not a novel observation,…
Kailyn KimJanuary 3, 2015
