Pregnancy is a beautiful process that leads to new life; however, not all pregnancies are so delightful. Surrogacy, now a multibillion...

In a branch of medicine where the difference between life and death can be marginal, Dr. Vu, a hematologist oncologist, is often the...

While medicine is often regarded as an objective field focused on using evidence-based approaches to improve patient outcomes, race-based...

In society, there are a few aspects of life that most agree are fundamental to individual well-being, one of those being health. It is...

As a Cornell student, it can be easy to lose oneself in the intellectual ivory tower. It is sometimes hard to fathom that not everyone in...

Widespread water scarcity is exacerbating the impact of COVID19 on members of the Navajo Nation. As of 2021, one in five of the...

While most people believe that the healthcare system provides quality care for all patients, this is not necessarily the case. Minority...

Why is it that healthcare, one of the largest industries in the country, tends to leave women behind in its efforts to move forward? The...

The smell of spicy, warm comforting red beans and bright, fluffy white rice wafts through the air. You take a bite and immediately smile...

Wearable devices, or wearables, are already revolutionizing medicine through mobile and digital health by enabling continuous,...

Despite our intricate civilizations and complex societies, humans are mammals at their core, products of the same evolutionary lineage as...

Endless hours of laborious work, billions of dollars spent testing hundreds of drugs, and extremely high rates of error riddle the...

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to reimagine social interactions from a personal level to a global one. While the pandemic has...

In the midst of a pandemic, social networking sites (SNS) have been pivotal in maintaining our social lives, but offer convenient...

New advances for reducing tremors are improving the quality of life for people with Essential Tremor (ET) and Parkinson’s disease (PD)....

Medical dramas are among the most watched shows on television. They feature hospitals or other medical environments as the main setting...

Is it possible to retrain your brain to become an entirely new person? What if all of a sudden, after months of feeling lethargic and...

What if we had the ability to cure cancer, treat blindness, develop “super” plants, or remove diseases from infectious organisms?...

For decades, we have been trying to find out how to diagnose, let alone cure, Alzheimer’s. From expensive tests to long waiting times,...

Dr. Media Rasheed, a fourth-year resident specializing in hematology, was convinced by many family members that she was in imminent...