Authored by: Chloe Lee Art by: Ava Shi South Korea is often celebrated as a global leader in digital health innovation, integrating telemedicine, wearable monitoring, and AI-driven diagnostics to transform patient care. Yet beneath this story of success lies a growing inequality: elderly patients in rural regions remain largely excluded from these advancements. The country’s rapid technological transformation has inadvertently widened the healthcare gap between urban and rura

Authored by: Castine Hardesty Art by: Claire Ma Most Americans are acutely familiar with the concept of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) as an unhealthy sugar alternative. Despite this, HFCS is, without exaggeration, everywhere in America – it is in soda, condiments, macaroni and cheese, canned soups, pizza, flavored cottage cheese, lunch meat, bread, and crackers – and that is only a fraction of the common groceries in which HFCS is present [1,2]. It is undeniable that this

Authored by: Carla Hu Art by: Julia Chen Who watches more TV, young adults or older adults? Surprisingly, older adults spend three times more of their waking time watching TV than young adults [1]. This is about an average of 6.4 hours a day spent watching television [2]. Despite the high consumer spending and media consumption of older adults on movies and television, older adults are often not well represented in media. A recent survey by AARP found that only 7% of responde

Authored by: Carissa Nair Art by: Fiona Reilly Commonly referred to as “The Great Imitator,” Lyme disease is a condition characterized by a history of medical chaos. Its mode of transmission appears straightforward: a bacterial infection caused by the bite of blacklegged ticks [1]. However, some of the highest rates of medical misattribution, especially with regard to neuropsychiatric symptoms, are associated with Lyme disease [2]. Moreover, a recent study by Shapiro et al. i