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Medicine Today: The impact of highly processed foods on the youth of America

Ruby Matenko, Staff Writer February 12, 2025

Red 40, a common food dye in the United States, is found in a popular spicy snack: Takis. People, particularly youth, enjoy crunching on these bright red chips.  “These dyes can be used in foods...

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Medicine Today: Why are so many women struggling with infertility?

Ruby Matenko, Staff Writer November 13, 2024

In vitro fertilization. Intrauterine insemination. Donors. Surrogates. Fertility treatments. These are words that have become more and more common to hear. Infertility has always been a threat to the...

Pro-Choice supporters rally for their abortion rights.

Medicine Today: The right to an abortion is the right to health care

Ruby Matenko, Staff Writer September 24, 2024

As a young woman, it is terrifying to me to live in a country where, after the overturning of Roe vs. Wade, the right to an abortion is not constitutionally protected anymore; where a doctor can be punished...

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Medicine Today: “You are what you eat”

Ruby Matenko, Staff Writer September 16, 2024

Coffee makes you jittery. Sugar makes you hyper. Protein gives you energy. Too much pasta makes you sluggish. We really are a composition of what we eat. But, why is the food we put in our mouth so important,...

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