The Bee, Honey, Humans and the Universe
While we strive to read the book of the universe, sometimes we look to the heavens, sometimes into…
Medicine
39 articles
The History and Ethical Dimensions of Precision Medicine in the Age of AI
Precision medicine, or personalized medicine, is defined by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), as an approach that…
Protons’ Story: A Journey into the Heart of the Atom
During a serene Californian summer retreat, I overheard a captivating conversation between two physicists. In the calm of…
Adverse Drug Reactions and Pharmacovigilance
Medicines and vaccines have transformed the prevention and treatment of diseases. In addition to their benefits, medicinal products…
Pain: A Blessing in Disguise
We are bombarded with hundreds, if not thousands, of “signals” in our day-to-day lives, such as phone notifications…
Silent Messages
The emergency room shift that evening was quite calm. We were drinking coffee and chatting in the doctors’…
The Essential Role of Symptoms in Disease
Aisha set out on the road with her newly purchased car. After covering some distance, a warning light…
Improving American Healthcare
“Medical education is the process for training doctors, subordinate to the dominant economic and social structures in societies…
Is There an Overspecialization Problem in Medicine?
Everyone needs to go to the doctor at some point in his or her life. If there is…
Vaccines
Vaccination becomes a part of our lives at a very early age. We start getting our shots in…
Me or We?
A pandemic (from Greek, pan, “all” and demos, “people”) is an epidemic of an infectious disease that has…
FLASH Radiotherapy
FLASH radiotherapy is a brand-new model of radiation therapy that may be administered to a cancer patient in…
Drug Development
We all focused on one topic throughout 2020: Covid-19. No single day passed without news on the pandemic…
Health & Medicine
Health & Medicine Below are the articles tagged as Health & Medicine on the Fountain Magazine. Articles
In Search of a Vaccine for COVID-19
It has been over half a year since Covid-19 swept across the world and forced many countries into…