Category: 4. Health

A new study from Gladstone Institutes and UC San Francisco (UCSF) reveals that many genetic risk factors for neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s and stroke exert their effects within these very guardian cells.

“When studying…

In 2024, Higher Ed Drive detailed how a credit reporting agency warned that higher education would face significant financial pressures in 2025. Data suggests that these financial pressures have increased beyond what was forecasted. The Chronicle of Higher Education recently released a report suggesting that two-thirds of colleges showed signs of financial stress. Furthermore, last month, BestColleges.com published a tracking system for college closures…

[Spoiler alert for the film, Days of Wine and Roses]

Over the past few weeks, several high-profile individuals sadly passed away including wrestling champion Hulk Hogan and Black Sabbath legend Ozzy Osbourne. While alcohol was not the cause of death for either…

Small amounts of the common artificial sweetener, erythritol, increase risk of heart attack and stroke by promoting constriction, clotting, and inflammation in brain blood vessel cells. The corresponding study was published in the Journal of Applied Physiology. 

“Our study adds to the evidence suggesting that non-nutritive sweeteners that have generally been purported to be safe, may not come without negative health consequences,” said senior study…

About 60 pregnancies per day in the U.S. end in stillbirth.

The best way to find out why a stillbirth occurred is a fetal autopsy – yet these procedures are performed in only 1 in 5 of the over 20,000 stillbirths that occur each year. As I explain in my recent book, “Stillbirth and the Law,” the fact that so few fetal autopsies are performed after stillbirths is actually a driver of the disproprotionately high number of stillbirths in the U.S.

One major exception to the rarity…

Generative AI is advancing faster than any technology in modern memory.

When OpenAI released ChatGPT in late 2022, few in the medical community took notice. Most doctors saw it as a novelty, perhaps useful for administrative tasks or as a basic reference tool, but too unreliable for clinical care.

In just a few years, that perception has shifted. Today’s GenAI tools from companies like Google,…

Long COVID includes a wide range of symptoms that present or persist three or more months after SARS-CoV-2 infection. Although in recent years researchers have gained greater insight into the prevalence, symptoms and effects of long COVID through the longitudinal Researching COVID to…

It causes the immune system’s first-line viral defenses — known as interferons — to attack the body. Nearly every organ is at risk, leading to conditions like kidney and heart disease.

But unlike many other autoimmune or chronic illnesses, lupus can improve as patients reach their 60s and 70s.

“I see my younger lupus patients in their 20s, 30s, and 40s every few months, monitoring them closely for signs of severe disease, but many of my older…

Tens of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries who are cancer patients have substantially lower out-of-pocket costs for their prescription drugs, thanks to a key provision included in the Inflation…