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After collecting cardiovascular data from an astronaut and a long-distance swimmer after their respective activities, scientists have...
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COVID-19 Vaccines Now Available for Children of Ages 12-15
Now, in May 2021, the United States government has officially made COVID-19 vaccines available to children from 12 to 15 years of age.
Kate Eunice Lorenzo
Language Performance as a Biomarker for Future Alzheimer’s Disease
The relationship between language patterns and cognitive impairment have been the subject of many scientific studies.
Destiny Hernandez
Grounding: How it can Improve your Quality of Life
Recent research has highlighted grounding techniques as a means to reduce inflammation, oxidative stress, and stress while improving sleep.
Andrew Nguyen
A new experimental treatment for Alzheimer’s?
Alzheimer’s disease is a form of dementia that causes considerable damage to cognitive function, limiting memory and judgement ability.
Amira Zayed
Neurolaw and its Implications
The topics of neuroscience and cognitive psychology have had long standing implications on the field of social justice.
Riya Shah
Placebos and Psychedelics
Placebo effect may explain the reported benefits of psychedelic microdoses.
Anthea Leng
Elucidating the Mechanisms Behind Silent Hypoxia in COVID-19 Patients
Little has been known about how the novel COVID-19 virus causes silent hypoxia until recently.
Andrew Nguyen
New Predictive Models for Alzheimer's Disease
Swedish scientists at Lund University have developed a more accurate way to predict who will get dementia compared to previous methods....
Jordan Lee
Increased Social Support Correlated With Fewer Mental Health Problems in Young Adults
The coronavirus pandemic has stripped society of one of its core energy sources: human interaction. As our social confinement drags on,...
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Anaamika Campeau
- Feb 24, 2019
- 1 min
Measles Outbreak in Washington State
The past year has seen a disturbing uptick in the number of cases of measles in the United States. A devastating disease, measles was thought to have been largely eradicated in America following the widespread implementation of vaccination protocols in the 1960s. However, popular doubt and mistrust surrounding vaccinations has recently led to an increase in the rates of parents either delaying or refusing to vaccinate their children. Measles immunization is routinely adminis
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Bashayer Althufa
- Feb 18, 2019
- 3 min
Antioxidants for Parkinson's Disease
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disease that affects 1-2% of the population over 60 years old. In rare cases, PD occurs earlier in life, often progressing unnoticed. Early-onset Parkinson's Disease famously affected the famous boxer, Muhammad Ali at age of 42, and actor Michael Fox at the age of 29. According to the American Parkinson's Disease Association, PD is becoming more and more common, with a new case of PD diagnosed every 9 minutes. Symptoms o
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Anaamika Campeau
- Feb 17, 2019
- 4 min
The Forgotten Frontier: Dwindling Healthcare Access in Rural America
Health in America When we consider inequity in American healthcare, what comes to mind? As a society, we are aware of separate and unequal access to healthcare based on race and gender. Some less “obvious” aspects of healthcare accessibility that circulate popular understanding are immigrant status, socioeconomic class, and highest level of education achieved. Still, we miss one critical determinant of whether or not an individual sees a doctor, and what caliber of care they
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Ryan Ghassemi
- Feb 15, 2019
- 1 min
FDA Polices Advertisement of Dietary Supplements
On Monday, the US Food and Drug Administration issued warnings to 17 dietary supplement companies for making falsified or unsupported claims about the benefits of their products. A recent trend in the industry has seen these companies and others advertising their products as treatments for diseases such as Alzheimer’s, diabetes, and cancer. The commissioner of the FDA, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, plans to lead “one of the most significant modernizations of dietary supplement regulati
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Mei Linh Lao
- Feb 14, 2019
- 2 min
Amazon buys “PillPack,” Expanding Marketplace into Pharmaceuticals
As of late June 2018, Amazon purchased a small startup, “PillPack” allowing the extensive online marketplace to expand into the pharmaceutical business and thus breaking tradition for physical walk-ins to purchase medicines. In an age of technology, the idea of an online pharmacy is incredibly enticing and may be especially beneficial for millennials and future generations. Exploring PillPack’s website, we find a surely easy process for purchasing medicine. Following traditio
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Tiffany Chu
- Feb 13, 2019
- 2 min
Epilepsy Stigma
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder where abnormal electrical activity in the brain results in episodes of convulsion or unusual behavior. Although epilepsy is not a rare disorder, with one in twenty-six people developing it over the course of their lifetime, it remains a large mystery to the medical community and relatively unknown to the general public.This disorder has continued to evade being understood by health professionals and researchers in large part due to its comp
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Michelle Kinney
- Feb 12, 2019
- 3 min
Vaccines
The first documented example of the effectiveness of vaccines occurred in the 18th century, when Dr. Edward Jenner inoculated a boy with smallpox lesions from a milkmaid. When he later infected the boy with smallpox, he survived.1 Since this landmark event, smallpox has been eradicated due to generations of children being vaccinated. Similarly, measles, malaria, and polio have been significantly reduced in the global population. Yet, what has led to the modern fear of vaccine
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Daniel Naranjo Sampson
- Feb 11, 2019
- 2 min
Self-Diagnosis
The threat of disease carries psychological weight. This causes many people to use the internet as a research tool in their healthcare. Research supports this idea since perception of disease risk is a vital influence on health behavior. Some people even try to use the internet as a diagnosis tool. How should we feel about that, and can self-diagnosis improve patient outcomes? One of the first things to note about modern self-diagnosis is that it’s not disappearing. A 2013 Pe
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Sherry An
- Feb 11, 2019
- 2 min
NYU Medical School Now Tuition-free: Why and What’s the Impact?
This year on August 16, New York University School of Medicine announced its decision to make tuition free for all students. According to the AAMC, 75% of medical students in the class of 2017 carry an average debt of $192,000, which plays a significant role in the students’ career choices. By eliminating tuition, NYU is hoping to encourage more students to enter the medical field and hopefully compensate for the current physician shortage in the U.S. For current and prospect
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Kiana Chegenizadeh
- Feb 10, 2019
- 3 min
Climate Change: The "Sick" Reality
With the recent snow storms occurring in the American Midwest and the devastating wildfires in California, our current administration continues to disbelieve the scientific facts demonstrating the reality of climate change [1]. As a result, there has been a major rollback of environmental regulations and an absence of any climate action policy. Climate change deniers are fond of pointing out cold days as evidence that “global warming doesn’t exist.” However, there is a clear-
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