Blog Posts

  • Strengths and Weaknesses of “An Ethnographic Study of Patient Life Experience in Early-Stage Parkinson’s Disease in the United States and Germany”

    Strengths Concise Writing: From the beginning, the study stands out for its clear and concise writing throughout the Abstract’s introduction, method, results, and conclusion. This briefness assures that readers can easily understand the research’s objectives, approaches, and results without excessive intricacy. The paper lacked much of the medical jargon I was expecting and, instead, the…

  • Undernutrition in the Slums of Bangladesh

    In the slums of Bangladesh, undernutrition plagues the community. This blog discusses a recent study that demonstrates the effects of subclinical gut enteropathy among the people of these communities.  Undernutrition is a large challenge, affecting more than 50% of slum communities. The consequences of malnutrition impact the general health and well-being of individuals. What makes…

  • Cultural Influences on Degenerative Knee Disease

    The article titled “Paleoepidemiology of Degenerative Knee Disease” by Robert D. Jurmain highlights the differences in skeletal traits among various human populations, which are influenced by genetics, environment, and culture. It was interesting to see that study investigates how cultural behaviors and lifestyle can impact the development of degenerative knee disease. According to the data,…

  • The Naming Dilemma in Genomic Medicine

    In Laura Emdal Navne’s research paper, “Making Sense of New Disease Categories – Naming, Specialising, and Serialising in Genomic Medicine,” she elaborated on the naming of medication and its impact on patient diagnosis. Ms. Navne’s investigation contradicted the viewpoint of geneticist Esther. Esther pushed for illness serialization, similar to describing a car license plate, increasing…

  • AirDrop Biomedicine: Accept or Decline?

    Healthcare, history, and heritage. Growing up, I thought of school as science and math versus English and history. I couldn’t imagine my two realms merging. However, in the real world, outside my school walls, the two universes combine more than I imagined. In an invited lecture at China Yunnan University in 2014, Judith Farquhar proposed,…