Early exposure to glowing reviews about a product or service tend to stick in our minds and shape our opinions--even when later reviews are overwhelmingly negative.
An up-close look at chronic traumatic encephalopathy
By Tom Foster
Posted 12.21.2012 at 10:00 am
Next-generation cancer therapies are notoriously expensive. But maybe not for long.
New cosmetic creams and therapies that make use of stem cells carry bizarre, gruesome risks.
Athletes in the U.S. suffer 3.8 million sports-related concussions each year. While helmet makers dither with small improvements, Swedish scientists have built something that could protect us all.
By Tom Foster
Posted 12.18.2012 at 12:07 pm
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The computing giant's annual list of technology predictions for the next five years foresee computers that can taste, see, smell, hear, and touch.
Unless the person you're shopping for has obsessive tendencies, fitness trackers won't help him or her get into shape.
Cliff the beagle can sniff out a dangerous bacterium just by smelling patients--no stool sample or long lab analysis necessary.
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A medical journal has published a paper urging clinicians to learn the ins and outs of human spaceflight so they'll be ready to clear patients for blastoff, as space tourism options proliferate.
The new DARPA-developed technology is aimed at buying soldiers enough time to get medical care.
Chinese researchers have developed a new technique for isolating kidney cells from urine and turning them into neural progenitors. Not as gross as it sounds!
"When a drug can flow into a cavity then conform to the shape of the cavity and stay there, it offers unprecedented opportunities [in the] delivery of drugs."
If only correlation were causation! Still, there's some fun info here.
About the size of "Abraham Lincoln’s head on a penny," the device could travel through your body to deliver drugs and take samples.
By Daniel Pivonka as told to Flora Lichtman
Posted 12.06.2012 at 2:01 pm