COMING SOON: Will new polymers change how we deliver drugs?

Improved drug delivery has the ability to profoundly affect human health.

To see why, here are a couple of key statistics:

* Fewer than 50 percent of people take their drugs as prescribed, which is a particular problem in people with Alzheimer's, schizophrenia and other mental health diseases.

* According to the New England Medical Journal, for those suffering from hypertension in the U.S. alone, around 100,000 deaths could've been prevented if people had taken their medicine correctly.

In this podcast episode, we'll explore how the ability to use of polymers allows new novel drug delivery — specifically because polymers in the human body can delay a drug's release over a longer period of weeks, months, or years.

What does this mean for the future of cancer treatment and other deadly diseases?

We'll find our in our interview with MIT professor Robert Langer.

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