Fighting Ebola Behind-the-Scenes
The Promise of ZMapp On December 10, 2014 TIME magazine named “The Ebola Fighters" its person of the year. These people deserve this recognition for their bravery and efforts in going out to the field and...
Does Exercise Work?
Not For Everyone, Apparently As gift-giving season reached its peak, personal fitness devices such as the Fitbit, the Nike+ FuelBand and the Aduro U-band were especially popular gifts. The ability to track...
What’s in My Genes?
23andMe Genomic Research The idea sounds like something out of a science fiction novel: spit in a little vial, send it through the mail, and not long after, receive a detailed report assessing your risk for...
Robotic Surgery
The Future of Medicine “Robot,” a word originating from the Czech word “robota,” meaning forced labor, has evolved many definitions over the years. Robots range from small machines...
A World Without Antibiotics
Few drugs today can compare to antibiotics in terms of sheer impact on modern medicine. With the widespread introduction of penicillin in the 1940s, previously serious and deadly infections such as pneumonia...
New Antibiotic Discovery Gives Hope in Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance
Rebecca Tang The introduction of antibiotics like penicillin to treat bacterial diseases revolutionized medicine in the 1940s. Most antibiotics work by disrupting synthesis of components essential for...
Is There a Cure?
How Immunotherapy Treatments May Change the Face of Cancer Treatment In 2012 alone, cancer accounted for an estimated 15% of all deaths worldwide, according to the World Health Organization (World Health...
Ebola: What are the Responsibilities of those Returning from the Fight?
Confined to home for twenty-one days, monitored by doctors twice a day with only family and friends allowed to visit after being screened. That is the quarantine required by the states of New Jersey and New...
Weak Sense of Smell
Sign of Imminent Death? Olfaction, the sense of smell, is familiar to most people as one of what we call the “five senses,” a set of sensory systems in the body that help us receive information about the...