BY AMBER ALTAF
November is American Diabetes Month. How much do you know about this widespread disease?

BY SHARON WASHIO The infamous Zika virus has been plaguing our lives and travel plans throughout the past year. Transferred widely by Aedes mosquitoes, the symptoms vary from nervous system disorders such as the Guillain-Barré syndrome, to even none at all. The true, insidious hazard […]

BY YUSHA SHUN Over the last decade, antibiotic-resistant bacteria have proliferated; according to the CDC, at least 90,000 deaths a year in the U.S. are due to bacterial infections, with a majority of these infections being resistant to some antibiotic. Alarmingly, hospitals and other health-care […]

BY DEVORAH SAFFERN Most cancer patients are treated with chemotherapy, radiation, and/or surgery, but recent promising research has given hope to another option: immunotherapy. This approach allows the immune system itself to fight the cancer. Tumorous cells often prevent the immune system from attacking, or […]

By: Tiffany Pham   Replacing members and changing parts naturally seems to be a practice in maintaining robots or marionettes. However, recent medical advancements have markedly demonstrated the potential in replacing and altering not robots, but the human body. From external body parts such as […]

In this article, writer Ming Yu Chou note the causes of the depletion of qualified psychiatrists for veterans who require long-term care.

By Sidra Ahmad   We have all heard of Obamacare—its handful of critics, its controversial reviews—ages before its official enactment. However, the administration has since signed millions of American onto the Obamacare health coverage, and according to Gallup, has decreased the uninsured rate among American […]

In this article, writer Winston Lie discusses possible increases in health insurance costs in the near future for low-income Americans.