The COVID-19 virus has been active for around 2 years now, and already recommendations for the 4th dose or second booster shot have started to arise. Over the past months, we have encountered new and fatal variants of the Covid-19 virus that may be immune to the present vaccines. With this ongoing situation, it is…
In the last two posts of this series I talked about the influence groups of social media such as Twitter and the false information of vaccines that go around. I also contributed the second post into some data on how vaccines do really help people to avoid harmful diseases. The image seen above of the…
| Part 1 Here | Featured Image Here | Salary Data Here | Volunteering (17-22 y/o) and internships (19-21 y/o) Volunteering or job shadowing in a hospital would be helpful experience. If possible, volunteering for an outreach NGO would give you an excellent niche during the interview process. Internships in a health or research seeing…
An app that allows kids to learn to draw, a safe social media site for kids, a battery that can be charged in 20 seconds, and a device that turns the CO2 emissions from cars into breathable oxygen. What do all of these innovations have in common? They were all developed by youth! Health sciences…
|Featured Image Here| I’ll be starting this article with the rather unfortunate circumstance our generation is under. Ask someone what they want to do when they grow up, and some would reply with this: What I want to be when I grow up? I want to be a doctor, move back to my home country…
In 2011, 123 countries immunized over 90% of infants against measles. Between 2000 and 2011, vaccination resulted in a 71% drop in measles related deaths worldwide, and yet 18% of Americans believe vaccines cause autism, and 30% are undecided. While vaccines shouldn’t be mandatory, because they at the end of the day it is the…
There is the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. Now, there’s the iKnife. No, it doesn’t have apps and games and music on it, but it does so much more than that. It identifies cancer cells. When removing cancer, surgeons try to cut as precisely as possible: not too much should be out, but there…
Gene Researcher for a Week is a program created by the Canadian Gene Cure Foundation for grade 11 and 12 students who have an innate curiosity for science, human genetics, and human genetics research. If selected, these students will work beside influential genetic research scientists for one week over spring break. This program is great for budding…
Last Friday, I was delighted to talk like babies, make cricket legs dance to music, and get “insider’s tips” from university students at Discovery Days in Medicine by the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame and our own University of Calgary. Though the hands-on activities were great (taking apart a human brain… model, looking at cancerous cells…
I know that this blog entry is rather late, and the title rather uncreative, but nonetheless I hope you enjoy my brief story on my crazy journey to volunteer abroad in Nepal. I left on August 3, and after spending over 30 hours either in stuffy planes or crowded airports, I arrived in the warm…
In the Spring of 2010, Harvard medicine released an article profiling David Edward’s unique inhaler invention. Edwards developed something that works similar to an inhaler, but with a terrific twist. Read it for yourself here.