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#IceBucketChallenge: Do Social Media Campaigns Really Spread Public Health Awareness?

Mark Wien
Medicine, Science & Medicine, Society & Culture
At the core of the #icebucketchallenge’s mission is the role social media plays in raising awareness and funds for positive causes. But is social media an effective campaign mechanism? Is true awareness really garnered from these efforts or are these dead-end challenges?

Acupuncture in the OR? What Complementary and Alternative Treatments Teach Us About Healing

Laura Christianson
Medicine, Science, Science & Medicine
Treating the causes of disease requires understanding patients as part of complex systems. In this piece, medical student Laura Christianson explores alternative medicine’s reach—from infertility to cardiovascular disease.

When Cancer Isn’t Just a Word: Translating Medicine’s Native Language

Laura Christianson
Medicine, Science, Science & Medicine, Society & Culture
Doctors may not be poets—nor do they need to be—but their use of language is critical in assuring effective patient care.

Alien Pollutants: Coming Soon to a City Near You

Kaitlin Solimine
Medicine, Science, Science & Medicine
Particulate matter easily enters air streams and waterways, traveling tens of thousands of miles and making for a much more insidious form of pollutant. Here are five ways pollutants are now invading a quaint country town near you

Why Oxycontin is a Drug Epidemic and What You Probably Don’t Know About It

Ward Collins
Government, Medicine, Science & Medicine, Society & Culture
The term “war on drugs” conjures images of Reagan Era public service videos: the shady dealer dispensing trafficked narcotics on an inner-city street corner. But the reality has shifted dramatically....

The Placebo Effect: The Science of Placebos

Anna Redmond
Medicine, Psychology, Science, Science & Medicine
As Allied troops stormed the beaches of Italy, a nurse and an anesthesiologist anxiously watched a wounded soldier.  He was in severe pain and on the verge of shock, but their supply of morphine had run...
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