Despite medical advancements, inequalities remain in the healthcare industry. Marginalized communities continue to face healthcare disparities, and female cancer patients are one example. A 2015 study funded by the National Cancer Action Team and the Department of Health Cancer Policy Team in England found that female patients experienced a longer
Antimalarial (AM) treatments, such as chloroquine (CQ) and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), have been used to treat autoimmune disorders for over sixty years. It has been an effective treatment of autoimmune inflammatory disorders like rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) by decreasing the body’s inflammatory response. However, recent research is
Pediatric chronic pain affects up to 1 in 3 youth, and over 40% of adults with chronic lower back pain experience diagnostic uncertainty (DU). However, there is little research about how DU affects youth. On November 25th, 2020, Pain Reports published “Diagnostic uncertainty in pediatric chronic pain: nature, prevalence, and
In the United States, over 500,000 lives were claimed by opioid overdose between 1999 to 2018. To this day, the opioid crisis continues to cause grief for many communities across North America. Although there is a growing awareness about the epidemic, the damage of the opioid crisis is prolonged by
Even though it is said that the opioid crisis started in the 1990s, overdose mortality rates started increasing in 1979. This was the result of American economic policies in the 1970s that placed capitalistic gain above human well-being. In a new study published by Frontiers in Public Health, the opioid
