By: Elizabeth Kaplan and Darlene Lien Introduction Hospital discharge is the process where patients transition from in-patient care to another care setting, such as primary, community, or domestic units. As hospitals become confronted with the urgency to discharge patients in the face of high patient occupancy rates and a shortage…

By: Trisha Nagin While it may be swept under the rug in the media, one of the leading causes of death in the United States is medical error, making this a detrimental public health problem[1]. …

By: Ryan Hoang On July 21, 2022, the prominent journal, Science, published an article that shook the scientific community to its core. Titled, “Blots on a field? Potential fabrication in research images threatens key theory of Alzheimer’s disease”, the article uncovered the many fabricated Western blots created by Dr. Sylvain Lesné…

By: Caroline Sha It’s no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted marginalized groups, especially within the United States. Black, Hispanic, American Indian or Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander groups had higher infection and death rates from COVID-19 as compared to White people. [1] And…

By: Talia Rajasekar and Connor Yew It’s no secret that Americans are getting a lousy deal on healthcare. Despite consistently ranking the highest in spending, we regularly place lowest in performance, making us a unique outlier when compared to healthcare systems in other high-income countries. With the exception of some…

By Vera Arenas and Ashlen Bullock Case Mr. Raphael Hernandez steps into the emergency department at a hospital near you. He is 45-years-old and has no prevalent medical issues aside from a type 2 diabetes diagnosis. He has a family, an active social life, a full time job — he could…

By Yasmina Zaarour Societal stigmatization of obesity manifests from internalized weight bias, including negative connotations and labels surrounding people who weigh more than the societal ideal . Weight stigma presents itself in the way people labeled “obese” are bullied as children, paid less as adults, and portrayed negatively in television…

By Gift Nnamdi The Rise of Telehealth in Medicine Telehealth is defined as the use of telecommunications technology (i.e., telephone, email, video chats) to deliver healthcare services to patients across distance and time. While telehealth was initially adopted to provide healthcare services to patients from rural and underserved communities, it has garnered wider acceptance across U.S…

By Monica Gonzalez and Krish Ajmani Thousands of individuals foster anger at insurance companies and big pharmaceutical companies. This animosity arises from the perceived ability of these sectors to set their own agendas and from the powerlessness citizens feel in controlling their own health outcomes. Open discussion, however, provides a…