Natalie Gutierrez | Staff Writer The FIU Psychedelic Club is honing in on the intersection between traditional health treatments and alternative treatments involving psychedelics. To kick-start their first general body meeting of the spring semester, the FIU Psychedelic Club hosted an online Q&A discussion on Jan. 24 at 6:30 p.m. The guest speaker, Deborah McCauley, […]
By: Nicole Heller / Staff Writer Doctors and nurses are needed in hospitals more than ever, but health care students are not being allowed to do their clinical rotations which are necessary to graduate. “COVID-19 has delayed all education. There are no students in hospitals as they all are suspended by the universities at a […]
By: Joshua Ceballos/News Director Christopher Herrera, a Worlds Ahead graduate, is already on track to go to medical school after only two years of university after high school. Herrera came to FIU out of high school with an associate’s degree and a mission: to give people the opportunities that he had hoped for while […]
Written by Gabriella Genao/ Contributing writer A professor from the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine was recognized by a national program that commemorates minorities for his work in cancer research. One of five recipients, Dr. Miguel Villalona-Calero, was named a Continuing Umbrella of Research Experiences Lifetime Achievement Honoree for his focus on translating laboratory research […]
Photo By Maggie Bartlett, NHGRI [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons. Aaron Pabon//Staff Writer Two University researchers with the assistance of two graduate students have developed a new way for the anti-HIV drug azidothymidine triphosphate to enter the body, specifically through the brain. The discovery has been made by Madhavan Nair, a professor and chair of […]
