Communication between physicians and patients presents an issue for one in five individuals receiving healthcare in the United States...

In recent years, the idea of universal health care has gained global momentum, with many countries adopting this model as a national...

In the past several decades, there has been a sharp rise in the use of AI technologies across many leading industries — and for good...

Unclean water, inadequate sanitation, and lack of menstrual hygiene products are only a few of the challenges that women and girls living...

“A gendered world will produce a gendered brain,” Gina Rippon, a British neuroscientist, proclaims. Famous for her books, The Gendered...

500%. That is the increase of prisoners in the US prison system over the last 40 years, totaling two million people (The Sentencing...

In considering medical discrimination, researchers typically take a micro-level approach that focuses on the biases of individual...

Heart-warming stories of miracle babies’ triumphs over sickle cell disease, nephritis being magically cured overnight, or patients...

The perverse increased cost of prescription drugs in the United States by drug manufacturers harms people, especially when they are most...

Globalization is a phenomenon that dominates our world today, especially in the clothing industry. Large fashion companies, such as...

Breast cancer is the most common cancer amongst women— making up 30% of cancer that women are diagnosed with [1, 2]. It is very likely...

The discipline of Gender Studies continues to be frequently synonymous with Women’s Studies. This is particularly regrettable in the...

As medical professionals of all fields face persistent medical pressure due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is paramount that the healthcare...

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to overload hospitals and overwhelm healthcare staff across the nation [1], the epidemic of physician...

In the United States, there are widespread disparities in access to medical advancement or care based on geographical region....

Global warming proves to be a persistent problem in our current world. The August U.N. climate change report stated that, optimistically,...

Healthy living should be equally accessible to all individuals. Unfortunately, there seems to be a consistent, problematic trend in the...

As she stared into the funeral pyre, she imagined what could have been if her village had a doctor readily available on the day of her...

Before the expansion of Medicaid, the inability to afford health insurance proved to be one of the largest barriers to healthcare for...

The Kalaupapa Peninsula lies hidden on the north coast of the island of Molokai, niched into a 2,000-foot sea cliff wall and surrounded...