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-5 posts tagged "Medicine"
Alexa Schlaerth | Thursday, September 29, 2022
The recent global COVID-19 pandemic has prompted us to look inward to reflect. One aspect subject to this reflection is none other than our healthcare system. More specifically, Covid has presented an opportunity to investigate the shortcomings and advantages of our current healthcare system, especially as it operates within the market/mixed economy ecosystem in modern
Bella Laufenberg | Thursday, January 20, 2022
Featuring an up-and-coming intersection of psychology, biology and neuroscience, the compassionate care in medicine (CCIM) minor within Notre Dame’s College of Science teaches students the science of compassion. CCIM is part of the Ruth M. Hillebrand Center for Compassionate Care in Medicine and is led by director Dr. Dominic Vachon. The minor features a gateway
Ellie Dombrowski | Thursday, March 7, 2019
Stuart Little, The Rats of Nimh, Charlotte’s Web. Penicillin, meningitis vaccines, antibody therapy. These are sides of a spectrum I could not reconcile. If you are like I was, these two lists first appear unrelated. Much to my dismay, rats have been instrumental in the development of medicine. I learned this when I applied to
Tom Naatz | Friday, May 18, 2018
When she was first accepted to Notre Dame, class of 2018 salutatorian Harisa Spahić wasn’t sure she wanted to come to the University. During the spring of her senior year of high school, the self-described “townie”, who was born in Germany to a Bosnian family and lived in Idaho before her family relocated to northern
Carolyn Hutyra | Sunday, April 13, 2014
The use of Paper Analytic Devices (PADs) as low-cost, low-technology tests for screening counterfeit and substandard pharmaceuticals resulted from collaborative efforts between the science departments of Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s College, and now Notre Dame students are in the process of taking this new technology to the market through the entrepreneurial business venture, Imani