aliansary @ July 1, 2010 # No Comment Yet
There was a recent call by the World Health Organization for innovative technologies that address global health concerns. The enteries were reviewed by an expert panel and narrowed down to a handful that met the criteria for the call. Applicants were graded on the type of device, health concern, developmental stage, whether or not the [...]
aliansary @ June 3, 2010 # No Comment Yet
For the past few years I have become more and more convinced that the burden of many diseases can decrease simply through prevention and early detection. This came through my involvement in UC Irvine’s Spot a Spot program, which is the main educational component of the National Melanoma Awareness Project. At its inception in 2003, [...]
aliansary @ February 25, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Today you can almost get a free education (minus the degree) by podcasting or webcasting some of the best lectures from MIT, Berkeley and Harvard. However, without prior knowledge, it can be difficult to watch/listen to a lecture and understand what is going on at these high level academic institutions. The Khan Academy is a [...]
aliansary @ January 4, 2010 # 3 Comments
Why Medical Schools are Four Years Long? Ever since I can remember, medicine and access to healthcare has played a central theme in many of the things I have been involved with. Yet, how was it that medical education in America grew to provide such an elite education and train many of the world’s top [...]
aliansary @ July 22, 2009 # 4 Comments
Today, there are over 70,000 adolescents and young adults diagnosed with cancer per year in the US alone. For over two decades there has been little or no improvement in survival in cancer patients between the ages of 15-39, as defined by the US National Cancer Institute. Cancer is the most common fatal disease in [...]
aliansary @ July 6, 2009 # One Comment
It was all coming too fast. Three weeks ago J had gone to her GP (General Practitioner) to complain about the swelling of her arm that had not subsided. She had recently graduated from Yale—at the top of her class—and was preparing to go to Harvard Law School. She was home for the summer living [...]
aliansary @ June 6, 2009 # No Comment Yet
I am not going to lie, this is pretty amazing. A 56-year-old woman. The Lancet, Volume 373, Issue 9678, Page 1890, 30 May 2009 The plain abdominal radiograph (A) showed the denture within the small intestine, with no sign of bowel obstruction or perforation. Plain radiographs (B) showed the denture within the caecum, within the [...]
aliansary @ April 23, 2009 # 4 Comments
van⋅i⋅ty /ˈvænɪti/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [van-i-tee] –noun excessive pride in one’s appearance, qualities, abilities, achievements, etc. This evening I went for a run on the beach. As I ran, kicking the sand in the air, trying to keep my balance, I could feel the heat insulated by the sand begin to rise. I then thought [...]
aliansary @ October 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet
It is about 9:00 am, you just have arrived to work and the first thing you realize is that your email inbox has overwhelmingly tripled from 25 new emails to 75 new emails…OVERNIGHT! Okay, so one-third of the emails are Facebook messages/comments, Twitter updates, or news feeds. A small percent go straight to the trash, [...]
aliansary @ September 17, 2008 # 2 Comments
This last Sunday I attended a demonstration in front of the Los Angeles Federal Building in Westwood. This was a peaceful rally in response to the escalation in the number of innocent civilian deaths in Afghanistan. Although the war in Afghanistan would be a great write, it would also be a long (maybe a book [...]
aliansary @ August 12, 2008 # One Comment
I went to a park on Sunday that is still in developments and won’t be complete anytime soon. However, what has been done thus far is mind blowing and what is coming in the up coming years will define a 21st century park. On an old marine base on the boarder of Irvine and El [...]
aliansary @ July 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
(This is a picture I took of Huntington Beach and after reading (no company proprietary data was revealed), Huntington Beach is one of the U.S. top 100 oil reserves. Profits from this picture will not be donated to any oil company (click here to view picture ).) In a television interview yesterday, Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez [...]
aliansary @ July 7, 2008 # One Comment
I remember when I was in college I knew a guy who always complained of a tooth ache. Weeks went by and he would never eat anything because of his tooth. One day I bumped into him on in front of Sproul Hall and I asked him how is tooth was. He said it was [...]