by Serena Lee. Biologically, women’s abilities to naturally procreate drop rapidly as they age or are medically incapable to, while the risk of miscarriage increases significantly. Luckily, today’s technology is powerfully advanced enough to not only prolong life before death but also to control the time before a child is born- through oocyte cryopreservation. Thus,... Continue Reading →

by Sarah Hedayatnia. The world is becoming dominated by large corporations that are receiving more and more information that one may prefer to keep private; such as telephone numbers, social security numbers, birthdays, mothers maiden names, and as of recently: genetic information. Websites like ancestry.com have been collecting information about huge populations of people regarding... Continue Reading →

by Korie McManus. Juuling. We all see our friends wake up and take a hit before brushing their teeth. As a junior in college, I know a surplus of people who love their juul. Some people can’t get throughout their day, or even a class, without it. We grew up in a world fighting cigarettes,... Continue Reading →

by Victor Lam. As stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United States government must ensure that “everyone within their jurisdiction has access to the underlying determinants of health, such as clean water, sanitation, food, nutrition,  and housing, and through a comprehensive system of health care, which is available to everyone without discrimination,... Continue Reading →

by Sebastian Sukdeo. As technology continues to advance, we have been able to delve deeper into our understanding of the brain. We have come to the point where we are able to grow brains of our own, and not just any type of brain: human brains. Up to this point, we have not been able... Continue Reading →

by Tasfia Rahman. The question of whether healthcare is a human right often oscillates to the front of the media between political campaigns and controversial laws regarding health insurance coverage and socioeconomic inequality. In the United States itself, access to healthcare is a prevalent issue that is continuously addressed, albeit without a concrete solution thus... Continue Reading →

by Adriana Bayron. More often than not, medication prescribed by a physician seems to be the solution to problems in today’s day and age. Why is it that something that has caused relief in the past has become the focal point in a growing problem every year? Do drugs cause increased risk of dementia? Anticholinergics, the drug causing... Continue Reading →

by Joshua Singavarapu. With the technological advancement of the medical field today, there are a plethora of techniques which help patients predict diseases that they will face in the future. Sometimes, these diseases may be overbearing, such as dementia or Alzheimer’s, and the patient may decide that their life would be better without the disease.... Continue Reading →

by Mira Sharma. Why do we help those in need? More importantly, are we helping them because we want to or because we need to help others in order to help ourselves? Researchers Diana Tamir, Jamil Zaki, and Jason Mitchell were involved in research regarding whether individuals valued the explicit choice more than a mere... Continue Reading →

by Oishi Goswami. Anonymous submissions of genetic information can be tracked with little more than an internet connection. If one had genetic information about another person and wanted to identify who the sequence belonged to, it would take minimal effort to go on public genomics database such as GEDmatch. Or, conversely, if one wanted to... Continue Reading →