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The Food Paradox: An Augmenting Connection Between Obesity and Malnutrition in Developing Countries
By Mimi Chung Obesity, a growing problem in industrial and post-industrial countries, is in many areas intertwined with malnutrition. Though many industrial nations have seen a sharp increase in the number of people facing problems stemming from obesity, such as heart disease and diabetes, hunger […]
Jet-Lag and Implications with Cancer
By Noah Beattie-Moss The circadian rhythm, a 24-hour oscillation of physiological processes based on the day/night cycle, is vital for maintaining homeostasis of the body. Long-term disruption of this rhythm can have serious side-effects, as it has been implicated in tumorgenesis and cancer development. Women […]
Widespread Workplace Discrimination Against People with Major Depressive Disorder Puts Employees in a Double-Bind
By Alison Herman In February 2016, the British Medical Journal released an expansive study of workplace discrimination against people with major depressive disorder (MDD) spanning 35 countries with a total of 834 participants. The analysis revealed anticipated and experienced discrimination against a majority of the […]
A mechanism of how alcohol consumption promotes human breast cancer
BY ALEESHA YE Alcohol has been shown to increase the risk of breast cancer development. However, the exact mechanism through which ethanol promotes breast cancer is not well characterized. This experiment aims to delve deeper in the specifics of the mechanism, which can be generally […]
Our Unexpected Ally in the Fight against Zika: Mosquitoes
By: Nicholas Persaud Zika is my no means a novel development. In fact, the virus that causes Zika was first identified in a monkey living in the Zika forest in 1947. One year later a specific species of mosquito called Aedes africanus was determined […]
Exorbitant Drug Prices in the US: Why They Don’t Exist in Other Countries?
By Moses Im From the scandal filled US elections to Michael Phelps’ record breaking twenty-third Olympic gold medal, 2016 has been full of big and unexpected news. Unfortunately, included in all this is the steep price hike of the Epipen (auto-injecting medicine for allergy emergencies). […]
Is Acupuncture a Placebo?
By: Barbara Gruszka You may have seen the Grey’s Anatomy episode where Dr. Meredith Grey ruins Dr. Dereck Shepard’s Alzheimer disease trial with the placebo drugs by interfering with the randomization of the placebo and the experimental drugs.[1] These “placebo trials” are not at all […]
