Midterms Moment: a “Post-Covid World” Needs a Public Option
As with every election year, the 2022 midterm elections will inevitably return to the debate on the future of American healthcare....
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Tenzin Kunsang
- Jul 12
- 3 min
Health Implications of Human Trafficking
Human trafficking is defined as “a crime that involves exploiting a person for labor, services, or commercial sex” [1]. Survivors can...
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Esha Pisipati
- Jul 1
- 5 min
Injustices in the Justice System
500%. That is the increase of prisoners in the US prison system over the last 40 years, totaling two million people (The Sentencing...
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Canyon Cross
- Jul 1
- 4 min
The Insane Buildup to Medicare and Medicaid
In today's highly publicized debate around the notion of universal healthcare in America, one could think that it is a relatively new...
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Jerome Dovan
- Jul 1
- 4 min
Polypharmacy: a growing issue facing elderly patients
In the world of healthcare, less can be more. Following increasing investments and progress in pharmaceutical drug development, patients...
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Shruti Nagpal
- Jul 1
- 4 min
The Forgotten Girls of Globalization
Globalization is a phenomenon that dominates our world today, especially in the clothing industry. Large fashion companies, such as...
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Grace Wang
- Jul 1
- 3 min
Weapons of War and Health
Not only is a war devastating for civilians and can rip apart their entire life, but war also has both mental and physical repercussions...
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Andrew Juan
- Jun 30
- 4 min
Save a Life (Before You Graduate)
If you suddenly underwent cardiac arrest, who would be there to save you? Minutes matter when situations like these occur; your survival...
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Yoojin Jung
- Jun 30
- 4 min
Electronic Health Records: Are they helping or hurting?
Technological development has led to both major medical breakthroughs and improvement in quality of life for patients on the...
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Nora Yang
- Dec 12, 2021
- 4 min
Playing the Sick Role
Most of us know what it feels like to be sick, shivering under a mound of blankets after catching the flu, sounding like Darth Vader...
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Rachel Peverly
- Dec 12, 2021
- 3 min
Breaking The Cycle: Gender Bias In BioPharma
Gender discrimination in biotech and pharmaceutical companies is a matter of complacency amongst industry leaders. The issue is well...
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Eunice Ju
- Dec 12, 2021
- 3 min
The Stressful Demands of an EMS Provider
“911, what is your emergency?” The familiar question that gives dispatch the information to send police, firefighters, or emergency...
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Amer Ahmed
- Dec 12, 2021
- 5 min
The Booster Dose for COVID-19 Has the Potential to Prevent a Fifth Wave Against the Delta Variant
In the USA, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), there have reportedly been 46 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 752...
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Ngoc Truong
- Dec 12, 2021
- 3 min
The Big Bad Buzz
College students are all too familiar with late night study sessions and the struggle to reach seven to eight hours of sleep a night....
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Kaitlyn Lee
- Dec 12, 2021
- 4 min
A Hereditary Disaster: Problems with Genetic Test Policies
In 2003, about 3 billion base pairs of the human genome were sequenced, marking not only the completion of the Human Genome Project, but...
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Julianne Franca
- Dec 12, 2021
- 4 min
Barriers to Medication Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorders
The opioid epidemic began in the 1990s after pharmaceutical companies falsely claimed that opioid medications were not addictive, and has...
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Sara Hishinuma
- Dec 12, 2021
- 4 min
The Right To Die?
Do we have a right to die as much as we have a right to live? How much autonomy do we truly have over our bodies? “What I am saying is...
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Andrew Juan
- Dec 12, 2021
- 4 min
Emotional, Political, Science
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, questions came to light regarding the effectiveness of mask-wearing, the validity of vaccine...
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Shruti Nagpal
- Dec 12, 2021
- 4 min
Anonymous Gamete Donation: Is it Ethical?
The meaning of having a family has changed drastically in the United States over the last century. In the past, children were conceived...
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Grace Maines
- Dec 12, 2021
- 5 min
Ethical Considerations of the Incarceration Epidemic
Three steps forward, two-and-a-half steps to the side. Forty-eight square feet to survive — up to twenty-three hours per day. This is the...
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