Author Archives: Max Schneider

Michelle Hashemi, a public health graduate student, will hope to turn her accessible personality and a focus on the environment into a winning bid in the race for the Graduate Students Association presidency this month.

Allison Smith vividly recalls the moment she realized she had a hand in dramatically reducing the blood pressure of an impoverished woman in Mexico.

The night Peter Saephanh was admitted to a hospital to begin treatment on what he later learned was foot cancer, his oncologist sat down in his hospital room and started crying.

The idea of someone’s blood being extracted from their body, filtered and returned while they are jogging, working or even making love may seem absurd to most.

Before long, a vaccine may be created for the Nipah virus, a disease that could potentially wreak havoc on human respiratory systems.

When Christine Stevens traveled to Iraq to help people with her music, she found herself in a hospital, surrounded by sick, sobbing children with only a hand-held drum and a flute.

The first week that Sonia Talati started dating her boyfriend of now 15 months, she unexpectedly noticed a distinct change in both her physical and psychological desires.