Category: 4. Health

Developed by the University of South Australia in collaboration with the Medical School at Stanford University, this world first formulation uniquely combines limonene (a citrus essential oil) with a lipid-based drug delivery system to treat dry mouth (xerostomia), a…

This approach could prove useful for delivering long-lasting contraceptives or other drugs that need to be given for extended periods of time. Because the drugs are dispersed in a suspension before…

It is estimated that one in five people in Sweden has fatty liver disease known as MASLD (metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease), and…

President Trump’s new hospital price transparency executive order directs federal agencies to enforce regulations that the president put into effect in his first term.

Trump’s action reflects a step toward enforcing long-ignored regulations, ensuring patients have access to relevant pricing information to make informed healthcare decisions. Without strict enforcement and meaningful penalties, hospitals will…

In this bonus episode of The Deep End, listen to an interview with Jon Nelson. He’ll share how he’s doing these days, now that his depression is gone. You’ll hear about the work still ahead of him, which may be lifelong. And you’ll hear about his plans for the future. 

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Laura Sanders: This podcast deals with mental illness, depression and suicide. Please listen with care.

Hi listeners, we’re dropping into your feeds this week with a special…

Living in a disadvantaged neighborhood contributes to a rare form of heart failure known as peripartum cardiomyopathy, a potentially deadly disease that disproportionately affects Black mothers.

That’s the key finding of my recent study, published in February 2025 in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Peripartum cardiomyopathy can occur in pregnant or postpartum mothers during late pregnancy up to five months after birth. The disease is difficult to identify and is…

The immune system is crucial to our health. It must sense pathogens and respond to these threats effectively. But the immune system also has to be carefully controlled. If it starts to attack healthy tissues, overreacts to an infection, or is constantly causing low-grade inflammation, serious problems can arise. Millions of people around the world suffer from autoimmune disorders like type 1 diabetes, lupus, or rheumatoid arthritis, for example.  But…

Amidst the once-in-a-generation buzz around artificial intelligence, a new subject area has slowly but definitively gained steam in the last few years: quantum computing.

The concept has become especially popular over the last year, as the world’s largest technology companies have started releasing some of their progress and work in…