Written by Raheem Sheikh Edited by Jacquelyn Tang Meet Alena Alena Analeigh Wicker, from Fort Worth, Texas, is not unlike most students. She studies for her college classes, sees new movies with friends, and plays soccer. Many university students may attest that balancing social and work lives is a difficult undertaking. For Wicker, this task may be more challenging as she completes two degrees in the biological sciences and interns at the National Aeronautics and Space Admin

Written by Pooja Suganthan Edited by Elizabeth Badalov “Shark Tank” billionaire Mark Cuban has started a low-cost online pharmacy. The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company (MCCPDC) seeks to sell common prescription medications at a discounted price. On the Cost Plus website, Cuban advertises that "Everyone should have safe, affordable medicines with transparent prices.” The home page displays generic drugs at significantly discounted rates. For example, Imatinib, the generic ver

Written by Nishanth Araveti Edited by Pooja Suganthan “A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death” Writing in the 18th century, it was Baron De Montesquieu who argued that the tally sheet of existence boils down to a negative number– life it seemed was better left unlived than forced to endure the slog of being. By and large though, we agree that existence is a positive experience worth living despite the many hurdles of everyday life. How then, do we begin to jud

Written by Laila Gad Edited by Sanjana Ahmed “You’re not you when you’re hungry,” a phrase well ingrained in our minds after watching hundreds of Snickers commercials. But, it is true. After sitting in a three-hour lecture, the term “hangry,” referring to being “bad-tempered or irritable as a result of hunger,” becomes all too familiar. Essentially, you lose all sense of control: you forget how to think before you speak, you’re highly irritable, and you make rash decisions, a

Written by Aisha Abid Edited by Faith Singh Do physicians have any ethical responsibility to inform patients regarding medical errors? Medical errors can occur inadvertently and may or may not affect the patient depending on a variety of conditions. A mistake might cause a misdiagnosis or a negative adverse effect in the patient's condition. These mistakes can occur for various reasons such as, the pressure to check a large number of patients in a short amount of time, a lac

Written by Jonathan Gao Edited by Elizabeth Badalov Picture this: you lie in a small examination room as the physician performs the same old physical examination. The thin hospital gown, which never fits well anyways, is draped clumsily over you. A loosely-fit cannula hangs around your nose to help supplement oxygen; your breathing is steady, but it is heavy and shaky. All the while, you can only think about how there’s nothing more that you want to do than spend more time wi