Category: Technology
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Electric Healing: How Bioelectronic Medicine Is Redefining the Future of Treatment
Chimamanda Udodi ’28 For over a century, modern medicine has depended heavily on pharmaceuticals to treat disease. Antibiotics, antidepressants, antihypertensives, and biologic drugs have transformed healthcare and saved millions of lives. While these molecular interventions are undeniably transformative, they often rely on systemic circulation, traveling throughout the entire body to reach a single target. In…
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Language Barriers and Digital Solutions
Colin Vickrey ’27 During my summer internship in Ecuador, I accompanied mobile health teams visiting Kichwa and Shuar-speaking towns in the provinces of Chimbarazo, Napo, and Morona Santiago. I witnessed a stark barrier: many doctors and clinical staff spoke only Spanish, while a substantial portion of local patients spoke only or primarily Kichwa, an indigenous…
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Intraoperative Machine Learning Implementation in Neurosurgery
Alex Steele ’28 As machine-learning based technologies begin to be incorporated into the delivery of medical care, adoption has varied across specialties. Some areas lend themselves well to being aided by computer-driven algorithms, while others have less aspects that can be easily addressed or readily augmented with artificial intelligence programs. Among the various medical fields,…