JPHAS

Winter 2005, Volume 4, Issue 1

• Editors' Note

Features

• Medicine: Is It Really Right for You?
  • Brian Choi
• Halfway There! Reflections of a Second-Year Medical Student
  • Ricardo Rodriguez
• A Day in the Life of a Pharmacy Director
  • Gerald Daliva
• The Waiting Game: Taking a Break After Medical School
  • Charlie Viturawong
• Psychotherapy vs. Pharmacotherapy for Depression
  • Gerald Daliva and Frances R. Mabbagu
• [Online] History of Spirometry
  • Anne Kiraly

News

• Getting to the Point of Animal Pain Management
  • Rachel Parikh
• Worldwide Outlook: XV International HIV/AIDS Conference
  • Krystyna Wesolowski
• Are Health Concerns Closely Monitored in Prisons?
  • Rohan Shah
• Current Regulations on Continuing Medical Education (CME)
  • Raghuveer Muppavarapu

Pre-Health Outlook

• Visualizing an Artful Biomedical Career
  Career Profile: Biomedical Visualization
  • Rachel Parikh
• An Interview with Neurologist Dr. Konstantin Slavin
  • Mahmooda Syed
• Taking Time Off Before Professional School: What Can I Do?
  • Krystyna Wesolowski

Research

Humor and Health: Is It Effective?

• The Quest for Artificial Blood
  • Soumya K. Bhattacharya
• Income Disparities Between Male and Female Physicians
  • Sharmistha Dev
• Humor and Health: Is It Effective?
  • Ana Kadkhodayan
• Doctor, Take Your Medicine!
  A Look at the Challenges Involved in Treating Physician-Patients
  • Neelima Vidula
• [Online] Refining the Surgeon
  • Jay Joshi

Invited Opinions

• South Africa’s Reluctance to Use Antiretrovirals for HIV/AIDS
  • Monica Choi
• The Need for Outsourcing Radiology
  • Ashutosh Shelat
• Vision Loss Diagnosis: Political Warfare
  • Milana Segal
• Which Is Better? Comparing Traditional and Non-Traditional Majors for Pre-Health Students
  • Frances R. Mabbagu
• Breaking the Stereotype about Fad Diets
  • David Lee
• Fad Diets: The Skinny behind the Scam
  • Chris Angderson