Health & Medicine

The Origins of AIDS (2011) Jacques Pepin 306 pages AIDS was first identified in North America in 1981 and its infectious agent human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was isolated two years later. In the subsequent 30 years, AIDS has become a global pandemic that has led to around 30 million deaths. Pepin’s book tackled the origins
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http://www.mcgilldaily.com/2013/03/drug-resistant-tuberculosis/ Image source: Stop TB Parnetship Drug-resistant Tuberculosis Very much an issue, and it’s spreading like wildfire By Marzieh Ghiasi March 25, 2013 New strains of tuberculosis (TB) threaten efforts to eradicate one of the world’s deadliest diseases. An alarming study published in the March edition of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s
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Closing the distance A neurosurgeon uses technology to reduce disparities in medical care and education in remote areas By Marzieh Ghiasi Published on November 3, 2011 http://www.mcgilldaily.com/2011/11/closing-the-distance/ Image by Afra Saskia Tucker “Two worlds, One spirit,” a collection of photography and sculpture by Ivar Mendez, the chairman of the Brain Repair Centre at Dalhousie University,
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“Neurologists should push their investigation into the neurologic mechanism associated with consciousness and should inquire closely into the localization of that mechanism without apology… To make such an inquiry is to ask a very old question, as is shown by the following quotation from the Book of Job: Surely there is a vein for the
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