Kirsten Saladow is a guest blogger for An Apple a Day and a writer on ultrasound technician schools for the Guide to Health Education.

Nowadays, it’s customary (and sometimes required) to take a foreign language starting as early as middle school. I remember back in the day, my pre-med friends who attended private high schools would take Latin to have an “edge” in understanding the language of medicine. Living in Houston, I did what I felt was logical and […]

With the incredible breadth of medical professions consisting of nurses, primary care physicians, surgeons, pharmacists, and even measly little medical students like me, it’s easy to get lost in the differences between each component of the healthcare system. But there’s one unifying responsibility that we all honor – that of patient confidentiality. It’s called HIPAA, and it’s […]

After finishing the infectious disease course in basic sciences, I learned one overbearing truth – when in doubt, it’s probably Staph. However, in the case of dental caries (tooth cavities), another very popular group of bacteria is the culprit – Strep! More specifically, S mutans.

Is Pradaxa (dabigatran etexilate) better at reducing the risk for stroke than Coumadin (warfarin) in patients with atrial fibrillation?

This guest post was kindly provided by Matt Curvine.

Besides the online application, secondaries, and recommendation letters, some med school applicants like to submit “letters of intent” (LOIs) to schools which, creatively enough, they intend to attend upon receiving an acceptance.

So you’ve rushed to take your MCAT and prepare your personal statement, now you wait till applications open. Then you rush to submit your apps, then you wait to receive secondaries. Then you rush to finish the secondaries, then you wait to receive an interview invite. Then you get anxious, and now it’s the night […]

With former Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders suggesting that, for the sake of reallocating our law-enforcement resources to more worthy causes, the US should legalize marijuana, I’m beginning to wonder if she’s right.

If you’ve not seen this letter by Dr. Roger Jones circulating over the Internet, here’s your chance to read one of the most poignant and accurate depictions of our health care system’s real problem – the culture crisis.