Category: Medicine
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A Review of a Retrospective Analysis of Dosage and the Efficacy of Gender-Affirming Testosterone Therapy
Claire Gilbert ’26 Gender-affirming hormone therapy is an increasingly popular treatment. Its purpose is to administer sex hormones that induce physical and chemical changes consistent with a patient’s gender identity. This treatment addresses the significant gender dysphoria felt by transgender individuals and can help them physically present their desired gender. However, due to the lack…
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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…