This report contains an analysis of the Colony decentralized application (dApp) in the context of healthcare. Detailed use-case simulations, cost breakdowns, and competitive analyses were used to evaluate Colony’s potential. The findings provide significant insight into the strengths and weaknesses of the Colony platform…

Despite the great amounts of attention and effort that human rights and social injustice have drawn over the past decades, numerous violations of such rights still persist today. One of the most prominent of these violations can be seen in the ongoing human trafficking operations around the globe.

Technology is developing at a rapid pace, serving as an invaluable resource in various disciplines — especially healthcare. This technology can be utilized in low-resource settings such as in rural areas or developing countries where there are high rates of maternal mortality. Most maternal deaths are preventable with proper antenatal care during pregnancy…

In the era of international volunteerism, mounting evidence suggests that the presence of unskilled and culturally unaware volunteers in the global south fosters “voluntourism,” and endangers the very populations and institutions that volunteers want to help. Northwestern does not enforce a pre-trip curriculum for student organizations that …

Within the past years, oncofertility has become an interdisciplinary field that aims to connect reproductive endocrinology and oncology in order to assess the efficacy of reproduction in cancer patients. Various treatments, such as chemotherapy, surgery, or radiation have raised survival rates for cancer patients. Unfortunately, women are often subject to an increased risk of infertility among reproductive-aged patients post-treatment.