by Monty Self | Mar 25, 2021 | Opinion
President Joseph Biden declared on March 23 that health care is a right. “We have a duty not just to protect it, but to make it better and keep becoming a nation where health care is a right for all, not a privilege for a few,” he said in remarks at the James Cancer...
by Monty Self | Mar 22, 2021 | Opinion
Immunity passports and vaccination records have been occasionally discussed over the last year, but they are quickly becoming the new buzz word in the media. With vaccine distribution increasing across the U.S. and around the world, we are already witnessing the U.S....
by Monty Self | Mar 19, 2021 | Opinion
Today is Match Day, a long-anticipated event by countless medical students across the nation. Since 1952, the National Resident Matching Program has coordinated the process by which medical school graduates and the directors of medical residency programs can declare...
by Monty Self | Mar 12, 2021 | Opinion
Polio is rarely mentioned anymore. This virus has been a scourge on the human race for millennium, but it is most known in the U.S. for the fear it evoked among parents in the 1950’s. It was clearly one of the most feared diseases of the 20th century and for good...
by Monty Self | Mar 8, 2021 | Opinion
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted Johnson and Johnson (J & J) emergency use authorization for their COVID-19 vaccine on Feb. 27. Unlike the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, which are messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines, the J & J vaccine uses a traditional...
