Telemedicine provides virtual tool for health care

Sarah Ding • October 22, 2020

During the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving one's home to receive health care can be unsafe. Because of this, health care professionals have utilized telemedicine to hold remote appointments and monitor patients.

Helping professions leave workers to manage self-care

Sarah Ding • February 2, 2020

In fields where emotional support is necessary ⁠— medicine, teaching and social work ⁠— individuals are especially vulnerable to burnout and other stress-related phenomena such as compassion fatigue and secondary traumatic stress.

Planned Parenthood

Sarah Ding • January 17, 2020

Planned Parenthood is a provider of reproductive health care. The majority of their services are  preventive care, including preventing unintended pregnancies through contraception, reducing the spread of sexually transmitted infections through testing and treatment and screening for cervical and other cancers.

Medicare/Medicaid

Sarah Ding • January 17, 2020

Medicare is a program funded by the state and federal government that provides health coverage for people 65 years or older and those who have a disability, regardless of income. Medicaid is a state and federal program that provides health coverage for people with a very low income.

From economy to immigration, a look into Trump’s first year

Katie Whaley • January 20, 2018

A year ago, President Donald Trump was inaugurated and officially became the 45th president of the United States.

Antibiotic resistance threatens modern health care

Grace Dorsey • January 30, 2016

Antibiotic resistance has risen substantially throughout the years and will become a huge problem in the coming years.

Obamacare debate too heated

Luke Chval • January 2, 2014

Debates become too heated when it comes to politics. Especially when it comes to amateur debates of misinformed citizens spewing words out of their party leaders’ mouths. One of the topics among laborious...