Authored by: Kendall Eddington Art by: Chloe Lee When you search #birthcontrol on TikTok, you’ll be flooded with thousands of videos of young women bashing birth control’s side effects, and self-described fertility experts cautioning against its use. This anti-birth control narrative is a surprising shift, given contraception’s historic roots in sexual liberation, and especially in the current political and legal landscape. Once a tool for the feminist movement, there has bee

Authored by: Katie Greening Art by: Kain Wang While it may be impossible to create something from absolutely nothing, new advancements in medicine bring us very close. Regenerative medicine, which is the study of repairing and replacing damaged cells in the body, is a rapidly developing field. Through stem cell therapy, gene editing, and tissue engineering, conditions once thought incurable are now becoming less of lifelong barriers, and more like challenges medicine can over

Authored by: Kate Lee Art by: Amy Em In the United States, obesity rates have increased by 37% over the past two decades, now affecting 41.9% of the   adult population [1]. This alarming rise, driven by increasingly sedentary lifestyles and nutrient-deficient diets,   is projected to continue. Obesity is medically defined as an excessive fat accumulation that presents a risk to   health, or a body mass index (BMI) that exceeds 30 [2]. Beyond its impact on well-being, obesity