BY ANASTASIA REPOULIOU no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark ~Warsan Shire, “Home” Syrians are fleeing their homes because home is the mouth of a shark. According to a report by the humanitarian organization World Vision, violence caused by the civil […]

By David Landeta Recently, media reports of gun violence incidents have become alarmingly frequent across America. On October 1, a gunman opened fire at Oregon’s Umpqua Community College. Ten people were killed, including the perpetrator, Christopher Harper-Mercer, marking yet another mass shooting on a college […]

BY ALEXANDER V. SHAHIN Earlier this month, an international group of scientists convened at Washington, D.C. and gave the green light for human gene editing research, even on germline cells. However, in their statement, they warned researchers to be careful, highlighting the need for “appropriate […]

BY AVA TORJANI Beginning September 2015, two cases of polio were reported in southwestern Ukraine, paralyzing a 4-year old and 10-month old, according to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. After its first occurrence in Europe over the last five years, polio has stirred significant distress […]

By Lily Reisigner November of 2015 marked the two-year anniversary of the last meningitis B case on the Princeton University campus. While fear of contracting the life-threatening virus has been almost eliminated among the student body, University health officials and the CDC still deem the […]

By Daniel Liu The current Ebola crisis has claimed over ten thousand lives in West Africa, and continues to cause hundreds of new infections every week. Yet, media coverage of the crisis had been meager up until the summer of 2014, an entire half-year after […]

The current Ebola crisis has claimed over ten thousand lives in West Africa, and continues to cause hundreds of new infections every week. Yet, media coverage of the crisis had been meager up until the summer of 2014, an entire half-year after the start of […]

Although Chagas disease has only recently emerged as a possible public health concern in some southern states of the U.S., this infectious disease has been a major threat of high priority for health officials throughout many nations of Latin America for many years. Prevalent in […]