Category: Medicine
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Low HPV Vaccination Rates Put Childhood Cancer Survivors at Risk
By Dabie Isiofia ’28 Human Papillomavirus (HPV) remains the predominant sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the United States, with 13 million diagnoses in 2023 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2024a, p. 1). Despite the introduction of an HPV vaccine with a 90% effectiveness rate in 2006, HPV persists as the most common STI…
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Efficacy of Bempedoic Acid, Novel Treatment for Elevated LDL Cholesterol
By Anthony Rice Bempedoic acid is a novel non-statin drug produced by Esperion Therapeutics to treat hypercholesterolemia, elevated levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol in the blood.1 In the double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 2022 CLEAR Outcomes trial conducted by Esperion, bempedoic acid treatment was associated with reductions in major adverse cardiovascular events among patients intolerant…
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Engineered Bacteria Guide Cells to Kill Tumors: A New World of Cancer Treatment
By Arra Ju ’27 Currently, in your body, cells are committing cannibalism. More commonly known as killer T-cells, these cells that commit “cellular cannibalism” exist in our body and carry out an immune response via this natural process of killing foreign cells, cancer cells, and cells infected with a virus. The surfaces of T-cells are…