David Poon, BSc. Immunology and Infection, PharmD Student My Smart Wrist Technology is meant to enhance the human experience (or destroy all humans). Sorry, I’ve been binge-watching the Terminator series. In recent years, you may have observed more and more people wearing watch-like objects on their wrist. Partly, they are a method to keep time,…
Ethos Ho, BSc Pharm Candidate A Small Fantastic Point of View You’ve probably heard the phrase, “good things come in small packages”; a reminder of how we should not underestimate the value of something based on its size. This phrase is the underlying idea behind the use of nanotechnology to address two common issues that…
Ethos Ho, BSc Pharmacy Candidate A Portal to the Future If you’ve been keeping up with the news regarding Alberta Health, you may have heard that they are close to completing a decade-long project that began in 2008. This ambitious project revolves around creating a patient portal that enables electronic access for all Alberta citizens…
Ethos Ho, BSc Pharm Candidate “It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has. “ – Hippocrates The Building Block of Drug Therapy You may have heard that DNA is the building block of all life. Our DNA is made up…
Ethos Ho, BSc Pharm Candidate Increasing Health Access through Technology Advancements in communication technology have never been as progressive as in the past decade. Things that were once thought to be only feasible in the imagination are now a reality. Improvements in technology have paralleled that of healthcare, where new drugs, vaccines, surgical procedures, and…
