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EDITORIAL: Contraception Personalis

EDITORIAL: Contraception Personalis

By The Editorial Board February 4, 2023

While Georgetown University’s Catholic, Jesuit values guide its mission of education and advocacy, it is also using these values to support its stance on unpopular, unsafe campus policies. Georgetown’s...

Students Connect Refugees to U.S. Health Care Services

Students Connect Refugees to U.S. Health Care Services

By Sophia Lu October 21, 2022

A team of students at the Georgetown University School of Medicine created a program aimed at decreasing barriers to healthcare access for refugees who have recently arrived in the United States. The...

NHS Welcomes Its First Visiting Jesuit Chair

NHS Welcomes Its First Visiting Jesuit Chair

By Ethan Johanson January 20, 2022

Rev. Michael Rozier, S.J., assistant professor of health management and policy at Saint Louis University, will serve as a visiting Jesuit chair this semester in the department of health systems administration...

PUKAS: Reduce Health Care’s Environmental Impact

PUKAS: Reduce Health Care’s Environmental Impact

By Annabelle Pukas March 5, 2021

The health care industry is designed to keep people healthy, but in order to prevent irreparable damage to the health of the planet and everyone on it, the industry must assume responsibility and take...

KANG: Reexamine the Value of Clinical Empathy

By Esther Kang January 23, 2020

Normally, we’d like to think of empathy as an unquestionably good quality. Understanding the why and how of another person’s emotional experience resolves conflict, supposedly moves us away from tribalistic...

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LANDRE: Protect the Disability Safety Net

By Anna Landre February 22, 2019

Toward the end of last summer, I stopped drinking coffee in the morning. It wasn’t, as one of my coworkers inquired, because I wanted a caffeine detox or a switch to tea. Instead, my insurance company...

KIM: Institutionalizing the Wisdom of Herbal Medicine

KIM: Institutionalizing the Wisdom of Herbal Medicine

By Heerak Kim November 29, 2018

When I was growing up as a Korean-American in Philadelphia, my mother used to give me Chinese herbal medicine for all kinds of ailments, ranging from headaches to stomachaches. For my college-educated...

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Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.) spoke in Copley Formal about the importance of health care and current issues facing American democracy.

Joe Kennedy Warns US Democracy Is Unhealthy

By Sarah Mendelsohn and Will Cassou November 15, 2018

Partisan divides have weakened U.S. democracy, Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.) said at an event in Copley Formal Lounge on Tuesday. Kennedy is a third-term congressman representing the 4th District...

KIM: Fighting the Freshman Fifteen

KIM: Fighting the Freshman Fifteen

By Heerak Kim October 22, 2018

When I started my freshman year at the University of Pennsylvania, I was shocked to see that every meal was buffet style and there was no limit to what I could eat. As a Korean immigrant who lived below...

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Student Health Advisory Board to Launch Next Semester

By Georgia Payne November 10, 2017

A student health advisory board is set to launch next semester as a platform for students to voice health concerns on campus. Administrators originally planned to establish the board this semester,...

EDITORIAL: Treat Adjuncts as Equals

By Editorial Board November 3, 2017

Adjunct professors at Georgetown University now face an uncertain future after the passing of the Oct. 31 expiration of their collective bargaining contract with the university. Georgetown must recognize...

DESHPANDE: Quantifying Risk in Modern Medicine

By Nikita Deshpande March 27, 2015

When your high-pitched, eardrum-grating alarm snatches you from a deep slumber, you have several options. You could shut off the incessant beeping, continue resting and miss class; hit snooze, temporarily...

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