SYNAPSE has served as the University of Pennsylvania’s premier multidisciplinary student run healthcare publication. We pride ourselves on maintaining a diverse focus, and we cover issues in healthcare, ranging from medical research and science & technology to behavioral health, health care economics and ethics. Articles from current and past issues can be reached from the archive. We recruit writers at the beginning of each semester and work with their ideas to produce peer-reviewed articles at the end of the semester. As part of our ongoing commitment to healthcare education, we also collaborate with numerous student organizations to organize speaker events and seminars related to healthcare. Our flagship event is our semesterly launch event, where we reveal our published issues following a keynote speech from a notable leader in healthcare. Also, make sure to check out new posts to our official blog!
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ANTIBIOTICS AND THE RETURN OF THE MICROBIAL DARK AGES
Epidemics have historically ravaged the human population since its early existence, but are they a problem of the past? Will we ever have another Scarlet Fever, Spanish Flu, or Black
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Can a Watch Save Your Life?Detecting Atrial Fibrillation with the New ECG Apple Watch
Wearables Wearable technology, or wearables, refers to all smart electronic devices that can be attached to the body as an accessory or article of clothing [1,2]. Despite the origins of wearable
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FOCUSED ULTRASOUND THERAPY COMBINED WITH MICROBUBBLES:A REVOLUTION IN TREATING ALZHEIMER’S
The mind is one of nature’s most complex entities. It is difficult to grasp just how many 100 billion neurons, the number that makes the average human brain, really is.
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PAGING THE ROBOT
It seems straight out of a nightmare: artificial intelligence (AI) ruling the world. Several movies have been based on the negatives of AI: AI turning against humans or AI leading
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SYNESTHESIA
Introduction The number four is dark purple. A concert B-flat scale is light blue. Number lines can form twisted patterns, while the sight of a handshake can be
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THE LIMITLESS DRUG
“You know how they say you can only access 20% of your brain? Well this lets you access all of it.” Bradley Cooper takes the white pill from the man’s
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The Global Mental Health Epidemic
Thoughts about the developing world evoke images of infectious diseases, famine, and poverty. Governments, multinational organizations and NGOs spend billions of dollars every year increasing efforts towards the education, prevention
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Coca-Cola and Life Saving Medicines
One of the biggest challenges facing global access to essential medicines is the lack of efficient delivery from one location to another. Every year, pharmaceutical companies subsidize their products so