William Pang The success of dental procedures depends heavily on pain management. Local anesthetics have evolved from herbal remedies used by the Babylonians in 2250 B.C. to complex nerve blockade injections with synthetic compounds such as Lidocaine (Prichard). Modern anesthesia...

Zachary Friedrich The development of nearly all modern medical specialties has followed the same pattern of gradual advancement with the occasional breakthrough discovery. However, psychiatry’s history has been one of “false starts, extended periods of stagnation, and two steps forward...

Michael Avgerinos Hospitals today face major challenges from payer mandates, charitable care mandates, the uninsured, and physician groups that compete for profitable services. Many hospitals also have bloated administrative structures that make them slow to adopt productivity-enhancing measures that could...

Andrea Cumpelik In the past decade, use of prescription opioids has skyrocketed, and overdose rates have quadrupled. In the early 2000s, deaths attributed to nonmedical prescription opioids (NMPOs) surpassed those of heroin and cocaine combined (Paulozzi et al. 2006). The...

Leah Alexander Imagine waking up one day to the belief that you are dead, that the life you are currently in is the “afterlife,” and that all your loved ones, who are still with you, are dead as well. This...

William Shin What are Antibiotics? Antibiotics are commonly used in treatment as they can inhibit and kill off bacterial infections. These same antibiotics are produced from bacteria naturally found in soil as well as fungi. Although these natural strains can...