Medicine

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?

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.

Doctors may not be poets—nor do they need to be—but their use of language is critical in assuring effective patient care.

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

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....

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...