Emily Tan – NU Sci Magazine

The paradox of leukemia and cleanliness

For most of our lives, it has been engrained in us that illnesses are primarily caused by unhygienic environmental factors. However, in the case of leukemia, recent studies have shown that it may very well be the opposite. With an annual incidence in the United States of approximately 3,800 children per year, leukemia is the […]

The truth behind your random aches

Biology, Health / Emily Tan / December 9, 2020

Psychosomatic disorders are more simple than they sound. The word “psychosomatic” can be broken into two components: “psycho-,” which means relating to the mind and “-somatic,” relating to the body. In layman’s terms, psychosomatic disorders occur when one’s mental state manifests physical symptoms. Socrates first introduced a semblance of today’s psychosomatic disorders 2500 years ago

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