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Students, get regular pap smears and HPV vaccinations

31 January 2024 Claire Zeffer

A student urges her peers to promote their health and prevent cervical cancer through preventative screening measures.

Know the limits of your leftovers this Thanksgiving

22 November 2023 Claire Zeffer

A student urges her peers to practice food safety while enjoying leftovers this Thanksgiving.

Fitness and fun: attend Temple workout groups

06 November 2023 Marie Schmidt

A student urges her peers to join free fitness classes on campus for a healthy social exercise experience.

You can make your girl dinner fun and nutritious

04 September 2023 Claire Zeffer

A student encourages her peers to be mindful of their eating habits and to participate in viral food trends in a nutritious way.

Temple should be one of the first U.S. universities to offer period leave

28 March 2023 Sarah Frasca

A student advocates for Temple to offer employees menstrual leave so people with periods do not have to work through immense discomfort.

Temple students, it’s time to step up and donate blood

25 January 2022 Julia Merola

A student argues that during the blood shortage, their peers must make the effort to donate.

Changing my mindset on New Year’s resolutions

05 January 2022 Julia Merola

A student recounts the pressure they felt while attempting to fulfill their New Year’s resolutions relating to health and grades over the course of 13 years.

Temple names interim dean of medical school

26 April 2021 Fallon Roth

Dr. Amy Goldberg is a Temple trauma surgeon and gun violence prevention advocate.

The body positivity movement isn’t for me

03 November 2020 Brianna Fairman

A student discusses not conforming to beauty standards as a woman with polycystic ovary syndrome.

Similar symptoms may complicate COVID-19 and flu, Temple medical professors say

06 October 2020 Scott Blender

Both cause fever and muscle aches, it may be difficult to decipher which virus students have.