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Public Health - Fatima Boganee

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Public health has always been humanity’s quiet backbone, but in an era of pandemics, climate change, and widening health inequities, it is no longer a background function. It is the front line. At its core, public health asks a deceptively simple question: how do we keep populations well before they ever become patients? The answer, however, is anything but simple. Infectious diseases do not respect borders, air pollution does not stop at customs, and misinformation spreads faster than any virus. COVID-19 exposed this reality with brutal efficiency, revealing that weak public health systems threaten health security everywhere. Globally, preventable conditions still dominate the burden of disease. Non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular illness are rising sharply in low- and middle-income countries, while underfunded sanitation systems continue to fuel outbreaks of cholera and other water-borne diseases. These are not failures of medicine; they are failures of poli...
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Oncology - Kay Shinn Thant San

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           It seems as though where someone lives, truly determines whether they deserve to live. This is especially true for cancer: a collection of over a hundred different diseases frequently associated with words such as "incurable" and "hopeless". Nevertheless, the persistence of those in the medical field has resulted in the creation of a medical specialty which diagnoses, treats, and manages this condition called "oncology".       Common forms of treatment and management towards cancer include personalised treatment plans: immunotherapy, chemotherapy, and even collaborations with surgeons and radiation specialists. There have even been new advancements in techniques and technologies, with the rise of artificial intelligence's integration into medicine, and the emergence of more advanced drug delivery systems (e.g. nanotechnology). Despite these optimistic outlooks, we must not turn a blind eye to suffering just to gaze upon succes...
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Orthopedics - Eliza Russell

                                                             Orthopedics  - Eliza Russell                                An exciting new study out of Balgrist University Hospital’s Department of Orthopedics in Zurich, Switzerland, has started looking at the association between increased tibial tubercle torsion and the risk of developing lateral patellofemoral osteoarthritis.  Osteoarthritis (OA), a progressive degenerative disease, causes a progressive loss of articular cartilage. Knee OA, specifically, is a major cause of a lesser quality of life and creates an initial reliance on non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and may eventually even require surgical intervention. Knee OA is an incredibly ...
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Cardiac Surgery - Sajidah AlSaihati

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  Cardiac surgery is definitively considered one of the most progressive areas in medicine, widely renowned for its great complexity and cutting-edge innovations in the modern era. As a field, it focuses on the specialized surgical treatment of the heart and blood vessels, aiming to restore proper function, blood circulation, and mitigate disease. However, as we push the boundaries of what is clinically possible, we bring to light three major global disparities: translational, technological, and socioeconomic accessibility.  To start, the translational gap found amidst the discipline’s vast advancements is a force of delay, one that is especially fatal. Life-saving research is oftentimes confined to academic discussion rather than bedside application, leaving an avoidable suffrage unattended due to a lack of proactivity. Instead, we should seek to convert insights and experimental data into tangible interventions through scheduled communication between research institutions, i...
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Public Health - Leela Basole

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                                                          Public Health: How Lice is Affecting Schools Today    O nce, any sign of lice meant immediate school dismissal until a child was completely lice-free. But most districts have replaced strict “no-nit” rules with “nonexclusion” policies, keeping students in class to prioritize learning time. Recently, this leniency has faced backlash as parents in states like Massachusetts, Texas, Ohio, and Georgia urge schools to reinstate stricter policies, blaming outbreaks on CDC guidelines that allow students with live lice to remain in school.      In Florida’s Hernando County, the district reinstated its old lice policy, with school board members citing ongoing reinfestations. However, public health experts argue that lice are more nuisance than...
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Cardiothoracics - Haneen Hajra

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 Cardiothoracics Haneen Hajra  Cardiothoracic health is often viewed through the lens of advanced surgical techniques, cutting edge technology and major hospital systems. But for millions of people around the world, especially children, cardiac disease begins long before they even touch an operating room. I learned this earlier than most. I developed rheumatic carditis, an inflammatory heart condition that quietly reshaped my life long before I even understood what “cardiothoracic” meant.  What stuck with me wasn’t the diagnosis itself but how easily it could have been missed. In many countries, it is missed. Rheumatic heart diseases, caused by untreated strep infections, remains one of the world’s most preventable cardiovascular killers. But, it still affects more than 40 million people globally and claims hundreds of thousands of lives every year. Most are young. Most live in places where basic antibiotics and early diagnosis are not guaranteed and are considered a rare...
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Obstetrics and Gynecology (OB/GYN) - Lipikaanjana Addagada

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  Obstetrics and Gynecology (OB/GYN) By: Lipikaanjana Addagada Obstetrics and gynecology is a very demanding job. Not a lot of people want to have to run to the hospital in the middle of the night because one of their patients is having a baby. You have to wake up in the middle of the night to run to the hospital. Sometimes you don’t even get home till the next day. You can have emergency surgeries at any time and you have to be prepared. And for these reasons, not a lot of people choose to be an OB/GYN.  There’s a shortage of doctors in the OB/GYN department. It takes months for a patient to schedule an appointment because the gynecologists are so busy. Gynecologists see over 40 patients a day, that’s 4.25 patients per hour. And by the time they get home, another patient is having an emergency and they have to get to the hospital again. Many believe the work life balance is horrible and that’s why they don’t want to be an OB/GYN. But there’s so much more to being an OB/GYN ...
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