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Kirsten Batitay is an educational program director and editor-in-chief for Pathoscribe. She manages Pathoscribe’s human body classes and reviews and edits articles before publishing.

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Articles:

Historical “Curse” No Longer: On Leprosy (Hansen’s Disease)

Those Muscles aren’t Just for Show: The Effects of Exercise on the Body

POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome)

Reliving a Nightmare: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

A Little Less Worse for Wear: Preventing Illness in Winter

Is it a normal puberty change, or is it a symptom of a serious health problem?: On PCOS

The Ecosystem Within Our Bodies: The Gut Microbiome

How Fatigue Can Be Impairing: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Health Literacy: An Introduction

Understanding Antisocial Personality Disorder

Shattering the Stigma: Schizophrenia

Phage Therapy: Deadly Viruses Turned Possible Medical Treatment

The Butterfly That Bites: Lupus

Malaria: Mosquito-Initiated Mayhem

Textured Sounds and Colorful Numbers: On Synesthesia

Artificial Intelligence is our Future: AI in Medicine

Next-Generation Sequencing

Not a Clean Freak: On Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

An Aging Paradox: Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome

Cancer Treatments

Huntington’s Disease

The Truth Behind the Smiling Faces: On Angelman Syndrome