Week after week, my peers and I witness the countless inequities that people experiencing homelessness at each of our Street Medicine Phoenix service events face every day. Through street outreach, our goal is to meet the unmet health...
When we hear the words “lung cancer,” our minds immediately ask, “Did/does the patient smoke?” What do you as the physician, or maybe the physician-to-be, do when your patient says, “Lung cancer? Me? How could that be? I’ve...
The treatment of intervertebral disc herniations vary widely, from conservative to invasive modalities. A common surgical procedure that is performed to manage this pathology is a microdiscectomy, where the extruded disc material is removed. In the lumbar spine...
Picture this: the sun’s early morning rays shining through the windows, bathing wooden floors in a golden glow. Dust dancing in the air around you, as you sit perched on a mat, legs crossed, hands in lap, and...
Falls in the elderly population are a serious and substantial public health problem. The medical expenditures attributable to both fatal and nonfatal falls in patients 65 years or older approximated $50 billion in 2015.(1) This problem continues to...
I’ve always enjoyed a good mystery. As a kid I tore voraciously through mystery novels and have watched all the way through House MD several times. But I’ve got nothing on my grandma, who not only has had...
Many experts and running enthusiasts have touted outside running as a superior activity when compared to its indoor counterpart, the treadmill; they use a plethora of arguments, all of which generally revolve around what happens in working muscles...
In the main series Pokémon games, an antidote is a healing item sold at any Poké Mart which cures the poison status condition, inflicted from moves such as Poison Sting or Sludge, abilities like Poison Point, or battle...
Phoenix is a transplant city, to be sure. Plenty of Californians, Midwesterners, and folks from all over have made their way to our city one way or another and have had to acclimate themselves to the many unique...
The Vogue Challenge, Zoom Meeting Mishaps, Turn Your DMs Into Quotes, Silhouette Challenge – do any of these sound familiar? There’s a good chance that you may have participated in these, or similar, trends yourself. Statistically speaking, with...
Wordle, the latest pandemic craze, is a free game that gives users six attempts a day to guess a unique five letter word, with a new word available every day. The clever word game has had a meteoric...
When the Wright Brothers first achieved motorized flight in 1903, the response to their achievement was lackluster. In fact, when propositioned for contracts regarding aeroplanes, the U.S. government responded to the brothers with a letter of “no interest”....
Vaccines are among the most important inventions in medical history, having effectively eliminated conditions that caused innumerable deaths. In fact, vaccines are so important that all 50 U.S. states require that children be vaccinated in order to attend...
What do you remember about Pixar’s famous movie, Up? Is it Doug, the golden retriever? The epic love story that brought tears to the most stoic of eyes? Whatever it is, it probably isn’t Carl’s cane, proudly decorated...
March 11th, 2020 marked the pivotal day when the World Health Organization officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic, an announcement that materialized only a few short months after the first reported cases in Wuhan, China. Two days later, the...
“We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night’s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.” – Jerry Seinfeld Although...
It is well studied at this point that COVID-19 has been disproportionately affecting racial and ethnic minorities. The CDC stated that these differences in risk of infection and hospitalizations may stem from long-standing systemic health and social inequities....
Are machines going to take over medicine? This might be a question you have heard or asked yourself, especially after watching movies demonstrating somewhat unsettling, yet realistic portrayals, of artificial intelligence (AI). Films such as Ex Machina, Her,...
We all know the saying: an apple a day keeps the doctor away. This adage has been around in some form since 1860. In fact, the original saying was “eat an apple on going to bed, and you’ll...
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 800 women die every day due to preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. Based on a census taken in 2015, it was estimated that 303,000 women worldwide died during...
A few years ago, the concept of nanoscience would have seemed so fictional that Steven Spielberg would have done an outstanding job curating it into a movie. Today, nanotechnology is making its way into clinical practice and soon...
Every year, more than one million knee replacement surgeries are done in the United States, and approximately one to two percent of these procedures are followed by infections. These infections are linked to the formation of biofilm–a microbial-derived...
“I can feel just about every finger—it’s a really weird sensation,” Mr. Copeland said a month after surgery. Mr. Copeland’s regained ability to feel again occurred after he was connected to the Brain Computer Interface (BCI) developed by...
In 2008, IBM developed its now iconic supercomputer Watson to play Jeopardy! against the show’s most successful duo, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Boasting 15 terabytes of RAM, 2880 processor cores, and the ability to process more than...
The modern smartphone comes with unlimited possibilities for the creative mind. With no more than a few clicks, taps, and pinches of the fingers, anyone can find out practically anything anywhere in the world. But what if we...
From smartphones to thermostats, watches to vehicles, the modern world is increasingly connected to the Internet—the so-called Internet of Things [1]. What is now becoming clear—painfully so for users of Ashley Madison, a popular dating website—is that anything...
Fifteen years after its creation, the da Vinci Surgical System is as futuristic, innovative, and revolutionary as ever before. Designed by the United States Army and Stanford University, the initial idea was for an armored robot to roll...
Welcome to our very first edition of This Month in Science (TMIS). Each month, we will feature recently published research with interviews of our Phoenix faculty for their opinions and explanations. This month, we interviewed Dr. Mark Haussler,...
In the United States today, there are an estimated 30 million people living with some type of disability. While some assistive living devices, like wheelchairs and walkers, have a large market presence, traditional manufacturing methods have prevented devices...
