Category: Medicine
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The New FDA-Approved Lung Cancer Drug
Vigneshwari Sivakumar ’29 Lung cancer is the nation’s deadliest cancer, affecting people of all backgrounds, with the most cases of 226,650 and deaths of 124,730 this year, according to the American Cancer Society (2025). Most cancers, when detected early, can be cured and treated; however, some studies show that even with earlier diagnosis, there is…
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Lasso Peptides: A Promising New Antibiotic
Vigneshwari Sivakumar ’29 Antibiotic resistance poses one of the most urgent challenges in modern medicine. However, recent work indicates that lasso peptides may hold promise for inhibiting multidrug-resistant bacterial pathogens. Maksimov et al. define lasso peptides as “a class of ribosomally synthesized posttranslationally modified natural products found in bacteria” (2012). The ‘lasso’ refers to their…
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Helpful Tool or Hazard: How Should Physicians Treat AI Chatbots Providing Medical Advice?
Alex Steele ’28 As long as the internet has been publicly accessible, individuals have used it to search for medical information. By 2002, when more than half of Americans had internet access, 80% of U.S. adults online were estimated to have searched for health-related information on the web (McMullan, 2006). Throughout the 2000s and 2010s,…