Editor’s Note: This post is part of a series of blog posts written by Human Health students in the Health 1,2,3,4 program’s Health 497 course — Community Health Education Strategies. To see an overview of the program and this series, please…
Photo by freestocks on Unsplash (rights-free) By: Lexi Rosmarin Penicillin, the first widely used antibiotic, was arguably one of the greatest discoveries in the modern medical world. Its mass production during World War II saved thousands of lives as it…
Photo by Jason Leung on Unsplash (rights-free) By News Team member Editor's Note: The is part of a series on Traditional Medicine in the Modern World. To read the introductory post, please go here. Ayurveda is a traditional medicinal system…
On October 28, 2021, Emory's Center for the Study of Human Health hosted their very own Dr. Cassandra Quave for a Q&A with acclaimed journalist and author Maryn McKenna on Quave's new book, The Plant Hunter: A Scientist's Quest for…
The evolution of bodily aesthetics in the 1990s and early 2000s produced, like every decade before then, the faces of beauty. The idealized facial and body type championed the ultra-thin, fragile physique on a narrow frame decorated with glorious, chiseled…