A Peer’s Review: Patenting Genes
This past Thursday marked the 60th anniversary of the publication of Francis Crick and James Watson’s discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA. Looking back, though the initial scientific...
View ArticleAudit and Feedback on Patient Satisfaction on Cancer Treatment
St. Jude India ChildCare Centres (SJICC) supports pediatric cancer patients and their families during the treatment and recovery processes. This study evaluated patient-family satisfaction at SJICC...
View ArticleA Multivariate Logistic Model for Predicting Breast Cancer Biopsy Outcomes
Early detection of breast cancer is crucial for successful treatment of the disease. While mammography screenings are relatively effective, only around 20% of biopsies conducted after abnormal...
View ArticleHow the War on Drugs Continues to Fuel the Hepatitis C Epidemic in America
India Perez-Urbano, Harvard College ‘16 Abstract The War on Drugs, declared by President Nixon over forty years ago, has framed drug use as a criminal, rather than a public health, concern. The mass...
View ArticleNutrigenomics: Let Food Be Thy Medicine
Eleni Apostolatos, ’18, THURJ Writer The old saying that we are what we eat rings true in nutritional genomics, a fairly new branch of science that studies the relationship between nutrition and...
View ArticleThe relationship between trunk muscle strength and flexibility,...
Connie Hsu, Harvard College ‘16 Eric Castillo, and Daniel Lieberman, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Abstract This study tests the hypothesis that there is an underlying...
View ArticleFrom meditation to medicine: Ayurvedic medicine and East-West knowledge...
Nirosha Perera, Harvard College ’16 Abstract This paper explores a case of East-West knowledge transfer and analyzes the interactions between three seemingly unrelated figures: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi,...
View ArticleThe Complexity of Global Health: HIV Resistance Testing
By Siddharth Yarlagadda ’18 THURJ Staff In an important piece calling for a redefinition of global health care delivery, Harvard Professors Jim Kim, Paul Farmer, and Michael Porter have described...
View ArticleTo Be, or Not to Be: That is the Ethical Question
Katherine Hung ’19 Terminal illness deprives its victims of their independence. It erodes their dignity and causes inexorable suffering. At times, terminally ill patients seek to end their prolonged...
View ArticlePatients Who Are hard to Hold: Compliance, Resistance, and Tuberculosis...
Leah Schwartz ’16 Abstract Following the 1948 discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis, domiciliary, self-administered tuberculosis treatment came to replace...
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