by Miguel A. De La Torre | Aug 21, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
My annual physical is fast approaching. Honestly, I am afraid to go to the doctor, regardless of how critical routine check-ups are. But my fear of doctors is not for the same reasons that most Euro-Americans find it frightful. My fear is based on a history where “Do...
by Kevin Heifner | Aug 26, 2021 | Opinion
People self-medicating with Ivermectin, a medication used to address parasites in animals, to treat or prevent COVID-19 led the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to issue a consumer update about why this should not be taken. “You are not a horse. You are not a...
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 Margot Hodson | Mar 10, 2021 | Opinion
I am writing as I am about to go with my husband to a large soccer stadium in Oxford, UK, now a COVID-19 vaccination center, for his vaccine appointment. The vaccination program has been progressing at an astonishing pace in the UK and the US, and it is great to see...
