Ravi Parikh

Ravi is a student at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He also co-chairs the Crimson Care Collaborative, a Harvard network of student-run clinics that serves patients who have limited access to primary care. His opinion pieces have been published in the Huffington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Boston Herald and Tampa Bay Times. He enjoys basketball, going home to Florida, and spending time with his now-fiancé.

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November 1st, 2013 Millions of Americans suffer from hearing loss or difficulty. Development of accessible non-invasive technology solutions has been challenging in this area. Asius Technologies, out of Boulder, Colorado, may have found a solution to help people with certain types of hearing loss. According to Asius, the company's ADEL Technology, which...
Public Health

October 15th, 2013 As physicians increase their patient panels, it is understandably difficult to devote large amounts of time to one patient. Using technology in medical practice can alleviate some of the time pressures that stretched-thin physicians face. NextIT out of Spokane, Washington has developed a virtual personal assistant, Alme, to help...
Exclusive

September 26th, 2013 HIV has a tremendously high incidence rate in certain populations in the US, notably men who have sex with men (MSM), a group that accounts for up to 82% of all infections. In such populations, strategies for preventing HIV have proven difficult to achieve and may require more innovative solutions. Earlier this month, a cluster...
Cardiac Surgery

September 26th, 2013 About 300,000 patients nationally suffer from degradation of the aortic heart valve, which forces the heart to work harder to pump blood, often leading to heart failure, blood clots and sudden death. While open aortic valve replacement for stenosis is the standard of care, about 30% of patients face contraindications to open surgery,...
Pediatrics

September 20th, 2013 Dyslexia is one of the most common learning disorder in children. Dyslexia affects up to 7% of schoolchildren and is a major source of morbidity and costs as children develop. Efforts to find strategies to encourage easier learning for this population are a priority in primary education. In this context, a recent study published in PLOS...
Geriatrics

September 20th, 2013 Google and Apple announced the creation of Calico, a new health technology business focused on aging and related diseases. Calico will be run and operated separately and independently from Google and Apple. Its investors, besides Google, include Arthur Levinson, the chairman of Apple and biotech company Genentech, who will be...
News

September 9th, 2013 While drug discovery has taken major strides in the past few decades, drug delivery is still a relatively static field. The vast majority of pharmaceuticals can only be delivered orally or intravenously; in the hospital, this poses a problem with patients who are nauseous, unable to take medications by mouth, and/or who lack IV access....
Neurology

September 9th, 2013 We have previously reported on the ability of video games to improve neuroplasticity. Now it appears that physicians and researchers are putting this to use in a clinical context. As reported recently in Nature, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco led by Dr. Adam Gazzaley have developed a multitasking video game...
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