alcohol // academia
null • hypothesis In December 2014, IMMpress Magazine published the first of many articles on graduate mental health. At the time, I had considered using that article to call out...
Canada Gets Lit: The Public Health Campaign Against Smoking in Canada
In the 1960s, cigarettes were ubiquitous throughout Canada. Smoking was permitted in restaurants, schools, hospitals and airplanes, and “lighting up” was advertised widely on TV, radio, billboards, and in magazines....
Understanding Sugar Addiction
Historically, the term “addictive” was associated with illegal substances that produce a high intensity of intoxication and induce severe withdrawal symptoms. However, there has been a shift in our understanding...
PharmaCosts: Drug Pricing and Access in Canada
In March 2018, the Liberal government produced a federal budget that included a proposal for a national pharmacare program, a coverage that has long been discussed since its first recommendation in...
Not Just Any Other Pill
Over the years, countless drugs have been developed, but only one has had enough of an impact to be referred to as The Pill. Today, approximately 100 million women worldwide...
Does Adderall Pass the Test?
With an ever-increasing pressure to achieve top grades, it’s no wonder that students are looking for methods of procuring a competitive edge. Move over caffeine, there is a new drug...
Drug Discovery With Artificial Intelligence
Drug discovery and development is a lengthy, laborious and extremely expensive process. In recent years, many biological databases have been established to curate the structural and functional properties of bioactive...
The Telomere Clock: Theory of Aging
The process of aging – a nearly universal phenomenon - has long been at the forefront of humankind’s curiosity and imagination. Our ability to observe the aging process has played a...
The Baby Boom – 70 Years Later
Historian Landon Jones famously said that almost exactly nine months after the end of World War II, “the cry of the baby was heard across the land.” This statement was...
Answering the Age-Old Question of How to Stay Forever Young
What if we spent 80 years to get to the biological age of 60?” Dr. Nir Barzilai pronounces with gusto. Culminating a near twenty-minute TEDMED talk centered on [Growing] older without growing sicker, his proposition...