Charlotte Hawks

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Medium • 10th January 2021

A Necessary Break from Running

Running is many things. Painful, exciting, illuminating, calming, invigorating, monotonous, frustrating. Sometimes all in the same run. And that’s why I continue to fall in love with running, day after day. But 2020 was the first time I questioned why I run at all. I took some time away from running after an injury, dropping out of the of the 2019 NYC Marathon days before the race. Just as I was starting to heal and go to physical therapy, COVID stopped the world in its tracks. And with it, my

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World Neurosurgery • 20th May 2020

Minimally Invasive Resection of Symptomatic Cervical Rib for Treatment of Thoracic Outlet Syndrome

Neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome treatments have high morbidity and recurrence rates. We present for the first time to our knowledge a minimally invasive spine surgery technique for complete resection of a cervical rib via a costotransversectomy approach. A patient with an 8-year history of progressive thoracic outlet syndrome presented with right C8 pain, weakness, and atrophy of her right forearm and thenar eminence. After neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome was confirmed via electromyogra

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The Apothecary • 4th April 2020

A Reminder

They fall off in marathon runners. They are dressed in “fifth avenue,” “bikini so teeny,” and “minimalistic” for trips to the beach. They are impossibly small in newborns. They are distinctly human.

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World Neurosurgery • 8th March 2019

New Predictive Index for Survival in Symptomatic Spinal Metastases

Patients with spinal metastases have broad variability in morbidity, mortality, and survival. Existing prognostic scoring systems have limited predictive value. Our aim is,

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CNN • 6th April 2018

Vaping now an epidemic among US high schoolers

A sharp spike in vaping and the use of e-cigarettes by students has grabbed the attention of the US Food and Drug Administration. The rapid spread of the fad was flagged in a 2016 report from the US

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CNN • 4th April 2018

How close are we to video-recording our dreams?

Although most of us dream four to six times a night, we forget 90% of our dreams 10 minutes after they end. Dreams are designed to be forgotten, explained Antonio Zadra, a psychology professor at the Université de Montréal. It's "very important to not confuse dream experiences with reality."

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CNN • 1st March 2018

How close are we to a hamburger grown in a lab?

(CNN) The latest craze in the food industry, in vitro or "clean" meat, is produced by extracting stem cells from animals and then growing and multiplying those cells in a lab to create a piece of meat. The cells "start to divide and start to form new muscle tissues. ... (We) let them proliferate until we have trillions of cells," explained Dr. Mark Post

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PubMed Central (PMC) • 10th May 2016

Educational Placement after Pediatric Intracerebral Hemorrhage

Schooling is a critical part of any child’s life, both educationally and socially. Therefore understanding the educational needs of children who have suffered ICH may help parents and schools in planning for a child’s effective assimilation into the school environment. Also, improving reintegration

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Greenwich, CT Patch • 22nd January 2014

The Yellow Brick Road: Greenwich Avenue

by Greenwich resident and collegiate Charlotte Hawks, a junior at Vanderbilt University and winter real estate intern Venturing to Greenwich Avenue today guarantees a few things: difficulty finding a parking place, ever-changing stores, a variety of restaurant options from