When Jason Dahlke, an emergency paramedic in Portland, Oreg., was called into an emergency call for a black man around 60 years complaining of extreme pain in his hands and feet, Dahlke “followed the standard procedure and gave the patient a blood glucose test” in which the test showed low blood sugar levels. Although he…
The opioid epidemic is a national crisis. It adversely affects public health, as well as the social and economic wellbeing of many individuals (4). The epidemic began in the 1990s and has remained a major health issue since then. Opioids affect more than the individuals that abuse them; there are forgotten victims of the epidemic:…
When we think about the prehistoric ages, we imagine cavemen, igloos, and mediocre broken speech. However, scientists worldwide have voiced that there is reason to suggest dancing was in the mix. Professor Richard Ebstein of the psychology department at the Hebrew University‘s Scheinfeld Center for Genetic Studies believed that dancing is an activity humans were…
Clinical trials rely on the cooperation of individuals who, due to extenuating circumstances, seek out novel treatments to their conditions. These people willingly cross the line between patient and subjects to serve the development of new biomedical techniques. Although these trials can certainly result in health benefits for test subjects, such benefits are secondary to…
Since the past few years, the popularity of probiotics has grown so much that the types of foods claiming to contain probiotics have expanded to now include cereals, cookies, fruit juices, granola bars, and even candy. In fact, the global probiotic market was valued at around 40 billion dollars in 2017 and is projected to…
Given the explosion of movements against sexual violence such as Me Too, Time’s Up and #That’s Harassment, the issue of sexual violence is now at the forefront of the national consciousness. With more and more survivors coming forward and renewed dialogue in public forums, it has become apparent that sexual violence is a serious and…
Targeting the $1.33 trillion-worth market of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), Biogen wants to take a step ahead. Joint with Eisai, the two pharma giants filed a second request of regulatory approval for the new drug, aducanumab, on Oct. 22, 2019, arguing for its effectiveness. The compound was developed for AD patients, undertaking the hypothesis that the…
Mental health encompasses more than just clinically diagnosed conditions that don long, scientific titles. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, mental health is an umbrella term used to characterize any “condition that affects a person’s thinking, feeling or mood” (1). Mental health struggles can present in drastically different fashions for different populations. For…
As the curtain fell on the Human Genome project in 2003, all the spotlight focused on those tiny double helixes and abundant information hidden within. While it thrilled the scientists that they finally had the blueprint of life all laid out on the table, further sequencing endeavors revealed a perplexing fact: less than 2 percent…
Dear Reader, In the era of much political turmoil, distress and shock, the world has focused on the negativity that surrounds us, frequently forgetting all the good that happens in the world. As a student-led interdisciplinary health magazine, Frontiers hopes to shed light on that positivity by spreading our love for health and science through…