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Blood pressure monitoring and antihypertensive treatment for dementia prevention: A Review
By Holly Lam, Human Development, ’16 Author’s Note: “I wrote this literature review as an assignment for UWP104F (Writing in the Professions: Health). We were able to choose any health problem of our interest and review current research pertaining to that topic. I chose to write about dementia particularly because it affects my grandmother. […]
What is HIV?
By Connie Chen, Microbiology, ’16 Scope This article was inspired by a friend who is an International Relations and Economics major. She was interested in the science behind HIV and AIDS because she only knew about the stigma carried with being infected with HIV and that it is an incurable virus. After talking to my […]
The Future of Surgery
By Nicole Strossman, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, ’17 What do you picture when you think about surgery? Most likely, you imagine a person having their body cut open, and then a surgeon performing what is necessary to fix the problem, whether that be removing a damaged organ or tissue, repairing damages internally, or performing some […]
Case Report: Sjogren’s Syndrome
By David Ivanov, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2015 Sjogren’s syndrome, like other autoimmune diseases, can be difficult to diagnose definitively, and often relies on a handful of signs and symptoms that can vary substantially from case to case. The only signs considered markers for Sjogren’s are anti-SSA and anti-SSB antibodies, and while anti-SSB is more […]
May the Odds Ever be in Your Favor
By Rayan Kaakati, Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior Being born female automatically registers you in a game of Russian roulette: one out of eight women will have invasive breast cancer during their lives. Breast cancer is a disease that starts in the tissues of the breast and is statistically fatal for about one in thirty-six women […]