Public Health The Rising Trend of Weight Loss Drugs Among Teens In Saginaw, Michigan, 16-year-old Demi Buckley struggled with her weight, finding little success through efforts…Anna DengAugust 2, 2024
Medicine FDA Approval of Seglentis to Treat Severe Acute Pain in Adults Opioid medications are drugs that help control pain which may result from trauma-related injuries such…Tam ToJanuary 24, 2022
Medicine A New Hope for HIV Patients Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new drug to combat human…Harjas SabharwalJanuary 22, 2019
Public Health De-linking R&D From the Price of Drugs: Fantasy or Future? Premed Perspective From Switzerland: Part VIII As a society, we've become pretty used to thinking…Lochan ShahJune 22, 2018
Public Health Huge Hepatitis A Outbreak Continues to Spread Across Southern California Since governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency in early October in response to Southern…Dani MaydanApril 8, 2018
Research New Drug Reverses Effects of Brain Trauma The human brain is arguably the most sensitive part of the human body. Traumatic brain…Brian LengMarch 15, 2018
Public Health Mass Incarceration: A Public Health Issue The United States holds five percent of the world’s population but houses almost 22 percent…Ilhaam BurnyJanuary 27, 2018
Wellness Downside of Sports – Addiction The benefits of playing sports are undeniable: camaraderie, recreation, and fitness. However, there are also significant…Willy CheungDecember 3, 2017
Public Health Holistic Approaches to the Treatment of Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is a disease characterized by hallucinations, social withdrawal, and poor cognitive function. Today, there are over…Alexandra RuanApril 16, 2017
Medicine How Sex and Gender Influence Medicine In her TEDx talk “Sex Matters in Emergency Medicine,” Dr. Alyson McGregor shares an astounding…Niathi KonaMarch 11, 2017
Research The Clinical Use of Mushrooms It's indisputable that cancer, especially when terminal, causes deep emotional pain. This pain is often hard…Brian LengFebruary 22, 2017
Medicine Catching Some ZZZ’s with Valerian Root I was recently in a tea shop in New York, coughing up a storm. The…Angela MarFebruary 6, 2017
Medicine The Biology of Addiction After spending countless nights pulling all-nighters during my time at UC Berkeley, I ended my collegiate…Angela MarNovember 7, 2016
Medicine Allergic to Marijuana? As of February 2015, twenty-three states and the District of Columbia have legalized medical marijuana.…Sara CheaOctober 21, 2016
Research Microglia Reduce the Effect of Cocaine in the Brain According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, about 913,000 people in America…Karina KakJuly 10, 2016
Medicine Drugs and Stuff: PCP Phencyclidine, more commonly known as the street drug PCP, has beginnings that lie far from…Carolina AparicioApril 24, 2016
Healthcare Prescriptional Cost With the ever-growing medical and pharmaceutical industries in our society, more often than not, we…Kishan PatelJanuary 30, 2016
Medicine A New Tactic to Fight Obesity Seventy-two million adults. This is the staggering number of adults in the US affected by…Jane ZhouJanuary 23, 2016
Public Health Prescriptions May Hurt More Than They Heal Getting sick is inevitable and visiting the doctor is a common thing to do when…Sabina LiNovember 5, 2015
Research Controlling the Brain The brain is a complex organ that people are constantly trying to understand. Brain circuitry…Raymond HoSeptember 19, 2015