BY GRACIE JIN Lei gong teng, or the thunder god vine. Source: Wikimedia Commons. In September, a team of researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine discovered that the addition of glucose, a simple sugar, could transform a plant extract into a drug with potentially anti-cancer effects. To put it another way, Mary Poppin’s … Continue reading A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Medicine Fight Cancer
BY MATTHEW PETTUS In light of several recent deaths and tragic setbacks, millennials have begun to blame these dark times on 2016, calling it “The Worst Year Ever”.1 However, as we are at the start of a new year, let us take a moment to create a resolution, and reflect on the great innovations and … Continue reading 7 Global Health Breakthroughs: A Year in Review
BY BRENDA CALDERON Doctor, please, give me a dose of the American Dream Put down the pen and look in my eyes We're in the waiting room and something ain't right All this is on you, we're overprescribed - “Kevin” (2015) Macklemore and Ryan Lewis featuring Leon Bridges I’ve been going to church since I … Continue reading Neon Cathedrals¹, White Coated Pastors, and the Gospel of the Rx
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