The efficacy of a new Alzheimer’s drug is under scrutiny after it was granted accelerated approval by the Food and Drug Administration this month. Leqembi, a treatment developed by Japanese biotech company Eisai and American biotech Biogen, has demonstrated more success in trial studies than any Alzheimer’s drug before. A recent study published in the...
Senior Jaiden Frantz received the award for best student presentation from the Michigan Entomological Society Research Conference last fall for her research on mayflies. But this fall, she’s heading off to law school. “I think over time, she realized that pre-med was not for her and she was really interested in pre-law to be a...
There’s an underground renaissance in wellness culture. Whether it’s advertisements like those of MUD/WTR offering coffee replacements or your hippie cousin swearing by a capsule to aid your memory problems, mushrooms are the stars of the alternative health world at the moment. There are many reasons people venture into alternative medicine. Some people don’t trust...
The protective measures people are taking to keep themselves safe from COVID-19 may be harming the health of the environment. The coronavirus has worsened the problem of plastic pollution, according to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In the United States, the amount of trash has increased at the domestic level. In June...
The entire universe and our very existence is all due to a fortunate series of chance incidents, said the author of the new book: “A Series of Fortunate Events: Chance and the Making of the Planet, Life, and You,” Sean B. Carroll. Carroll spoke to Hillsdale students and faculty during a virtual event on Tuesday,...