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Welcome to Frontiers!
Frontiers Magazine: WU Review of Health is a publication that strives to make transdisciplinary aspects of health and medicine more…
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Welcome to Frontiers!
Frontiers Magazine: WU Review of Health is a publication that strives to make transdisciplinary aspects of health and medicine more understandable and relevant to people’s lives. We seek to engage the WashU campus in expanding perspectives of health and medicine in a relatable and easily-consumable way. Enjoy this video as an introduction to our organization…
Mental Health: An Infectious Disease of Poverty
Socioeconomic status has long been considered as a potential explanation for discrepancies in professional expectations, lifestyle trends, and mental and physical health in America. The relationship between household income and mental disorders has been especially thoroughly examined. Numerous longitudinal studies over the years have consistently found a damningly strong correlation between the two variables. In…
The Global Burden of Mental Illness: A Neglected Epidemic
It is common to find yourself in a scenario where a friend or family member suffers a physical injury, like a broken leg. The socially acceptable course of action would be to offer assistance in the form of rides to work or or offering to cook them dinner. We would send texts offering words of…
In Defense of Safety: Improving Public Health in Prisons
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, individuals entering correctional facilities have higher rates of infectious diseases, including HIV, tuberculosis and hepatitis C, than the general population of the United States (1). Former inmates make up 17% of people in the United States with AIDs, between 13 and 19% of people with HIV,…
Influenza, One Century Later
Imagine it is the autumn of 1918 and World War I is raging on in Europe. As a latecomer to the war, the U.S. is fighting in the trenches alongside the Allies, and daily news trickles back to the mainland bringing pictures of the war and the faces of the fallen. However, bullets are not…
Expanding Public Transit in St. Louis
Tucked away in the center of a country renowned for its capacity to thrive and develop, lies a metropolitan region vastly recognized for its inability to do just that. A calamity has befallen the residents of North Saint Louis, where more than one in four individuals live under the poverty line. In fact, the economic…
A Comprehensive Understanding of Food Deserts
The United States Department of Agriculture defines a food desert as “… parts of the country vapid of fresh fruit, vegetables, and other healthful whole foods, usually found in impoverished areas.” From the 2010 census, it was determined that 23.5 million Americans live in food deserts, with a disproportionate amount found in low-income neighborhoods. This…
Immunotherapy Through History
Immunotherapy is a type of cancer treatment that harnesses the power of the human immune system to fight cancer. In the last decade, immunotherapies have revolutionized the field of oncology and personalized medicine. Chemotherapy and radiation therapy target cancer cells but often times, as collateral damage, destroy healthy tissue as well. As a result, physicians…
Neuroscience of First Impressions
First impressions: it’s ironic how something that lasts so long is made so fast. In fact, studies have demonstrated that it only takes 100 milliseconds to create a first impression about a stranger. [9] To put that into perspective, it takes three to four times longer for a human being to blink. Oddly enough, giving…