Category: 5. Health

In the sixth episode of The Deep End, we’ll look to the future for Jon and his family and for DBS research. The research is pushing ahead, with a clinical trial of DBS for treatment-resistant depression that’s just begun. The first volunteer for that study had DBS surgery in early…

Anyone who has raised kids knows what happens when you give them a monthly allowance without requiring any work in return: they plop in front of their new videogame consoles while their dirty dishes collect in the sink.

That’s the…

Protein is a critical macronutrient for building and repairing muscles, supporting metabolism and maintaining overall health. Popular podcasters…

After Spring Break, it’s common for campus counseling centers to see an uptick in students worried about their academic performance for the semester. Many of these students will report being burdened by high perfectionism and significant test…

What may happen after you go through COVID-19 remains a concern. There’s certainly the risk of getting any of the common but often…

One in 20 people carries one change in a gene called DPYD. If they do, they likely don’t know it. But if they develop cancer and are given certain types of chemotherapy — fluorouracil (5-FU) or capecitabine (Xeloda or CAPE) — they may get very sick or die. In the…

Knowing which vaccines older adults should get and hearing a clear recommendation from their health care provider about why a particular vaccine is important strongly motivated them to get vaccinated. That’s a key finding in a recent study I co-authored in the journal Open Forum…

Our bodies response to invading pathogens through different mechanisms of the immune system. Innate immunity first detects disease and relays a defense signal to activate the second wave of immune defense; adaptive immunity. This second line of protection…