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Jerome Dovan
- Aug 28, 2021
- 5 min
Cancer and Stigma: Behind the Perils of Misconception
In a branch of medicine where the difference between life and death can be marginal, Dr. Vu, a hematologist oncologist, is often the...
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Julianne Franca
- Aug 28, 2021
- 4 min
Race-Based Medicine: Scientifically Unfounded Clinical Practices and Their Impact
While medicine is often regarded as an objective field focused on using evidence-based approaches to improve patient outcomes, race-based...
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Riya Patel
- Aug 28, 2021
- 4 min
Healthcare in the Child Welfare System
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...
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David Rusakow
- Aug 28, 2021
- 4 min
Can Your School Impact Your Health?
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...
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Francesca DiGiorgio
- Aug 28, 2021
- 5 min
Water Scarcity on Navajo Nation Worsens COVID-19 Disparities
Widespread water scarcity is exacerbating the impact of COVID19 on members of the Navajo Nation. As of 2021, one in five of the...
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Navya Chamiraju
- Aug 28, 2021
- 5 min
The Systemic Barriers Minority Populations Face in Healthcare
While most people believe that the healthcare system provides quality care for all patients, this is not necessarily the case. Minority...
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Isabelle Holt
- Aug 28, 2021
- 4 min
The Leaky Pipeline: GenderDisparities in Healthcare Innovation
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...
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Ilana Schachter
- Aug 28, 2021
- 3 min
The Role of Rice and Beans: Nutrition as Medical Treatment
The smell of spicy, warm comforting red beans and bright, fluffy white rice wafts through the air. You take a bite and immediately smile...
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Philip Lee
- Aug 28, 2021
- 4 min
Health Wearables: Innovation and What it Means for You
Wearable devices, or wearables, are already revolutionizing medicine through mobile and digital health by enabling continuous,...
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Abraham Kheirbek
- Aug 28, 2021
- 5 min
Weighing the Implications of ‘Breast is Best’
Despite our intricate civilizations and complex societies, humans are mammals at their core, products of the same evolutionary lineage as...
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Rushil Shah
- Aug 28, 2021
- 4 min
Translational Medicine in the Artificial Intelligence Era
Endless hours of laborious work, billions of dollars spent testing hundreds of drugs, and extremely high rates of error riddle the...
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Shilvaan Patel
- Aug 28, 2021
- 3 min
Virtual Clinical Trials
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to reimagine social interactions from a personal level to a global one. While the pandemic has...
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Vivian Chiang
- Aug 28, 2021
- 5 min
(Insta)nt (Gram)tification: Social Media Addiction and its Effects on Dopamine
In the midst of a pandemic, social networking sites (SNS) have been pivotal in maintaining our social lives, but offer convenient...
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Amer Ahmed
- Aug 28, 2021
- 3 min
Focused Ultrasound Provides MinimallyInvasive Treatment for Parkinson’s Patients
New advances for reducing tremors are improving the quality of life for people with Essential Tremor (ET) and Parkinson’s disease (PD)....
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Joy Pojim
- Aug 18, 2021
- 3 min
Grey’s Anatomy Enthusiast, M.D.
Medical dramas are among the most watched shows on television. They feature hospitals or other medical environments as the main setting...
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Anika Kumar
- Aug 17, 2021
- 4 min
Retraining the Brain
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...
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Ronit Kumar
- Aug 17, 2021
- 4 min
The Future of Biotechnology
What if we had the ability to cure cancer, treat blindness, develop “super” plants, or remove diseases from infectious organisms?...
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Kiran Ganga
- Aug 17, 2021
- 4 min
Diagnosing Alzheimer’s: A Simple Blood Test
For decades, we have been trying to find out how to diagnose, let alone cure, Alzheimer’s. From expensive tests to long waiting times,...
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Athira Lalu
- Aug 17, 2021
- 4 min
The Syrian Healthcare Crisis: ‘Brain Drain’ and Attack on Healthcare Workers
Dr. Media Rasheed, a fourth-year resident specializing in hematology, was convinced by many family members that she was in imminent...
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