Medicine (Page 15)

Insights into the healthcare system and the latest in pharmaceutical development.

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Approved: Prosthetic Legs That Anchor Directly To The Bone

Approved: Prosthetic Legs That Anchor Directly To The Bone

You Can Now Crowdsource Your Medical Diagnoses, But Should You?

You Can Now Crowdsource Your Medical Diagnoses, But Should You?

By Alexandra Ossola

The Search For A Better Lethal Injection

The Search For A Better Lethal Injection

By Alexandra Ossola

Doctors Are Using Lasers To Treat People With Severe Psychological Conditions

Doctors Are Using Lasers To Treat People With Severe Psychological Conditions

By Alexandra Ossola

Gene Tests Are Quite Telling – Should You Get One?

Gene Tests Are Quite Telling – Should You Get One?

By Alexandra Ossola

The Cure-All

By Tyler Graham

5 Things You Need To Know About So-Called “Female Viagra”

5 Things You Need To Know About So-Called “Female Viagra”

By Jennifer Abbasi

Will Smoking Pot Get Rid Of Your Intestinal Worms?

Will Smoking Pot Get Rid Of Your Intestinal Worms?

By Alexandra Ossola

The Church Of George Church

The Church Of George Church

By Jeneen interlandi

Long Live The Mammoth

Long Live The Mammoth

By Beth Shapiro

Should You Trust Big Pharma With Your DNA?

Should You Trust Big Pharma With Your DNA?

By Heather Hansman

Woolly Mammoth DNA Successfully Spliced Into Elephant Cells

Woolly Mammoth DNA Successfully Spliced Into Elephant Cells

Measles And The Power of Understanding

Measles And The Power of Understanding

By Cliff Ransom

Yes, You Can Reverse Disease

Yes, You Can Reverse Disease

By PopSci Editors

Ebola-Plagued Countries Now Risk Deadly Measles Epidemic

Ebola-Plagued Countries Now Risk Deadly Measles Epidemic

Injectable Enzyme Stops Wounds From Bleeding

Injectable Enzyme Stops Wounds From Bleeding

By Alexandra Ossola

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16 African Countries Have ‘Overtaken The U.S.’ In Measles Vaccination Rate

By Sue Desmond-Hellmann, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Stick-On Tattoo Measures Blood Sugar Without Needles

Stick-On Tattoo Measures Blood Sugar Without Needles

By Lydia Ramsey

Medical Inhalers To Track Where You Are When You Puff

Medical Inhalers To Track Where You Are When You Puff

By Alison Bruzek

How Nigeria’s Anti-Polio Strategy Helped It Wipe Out Ebola

How Nigeria’s Anti-Polio Strategy Helped It Wipe Out Ebola

By Francie Diep

IBM’s Watson Will Give You Health Advice Based On Your DNA

By Francie Diep

Toxin-Secreting Stem Cells May Destroy Brain Tumors From Inside Out

Toxin-Secreting Stem Cells May Destroy Brain Tumors From Inside Out

What Happens After Someone Survives Ebola?

What Happens After Someone Survives Ebola?

By Mary Beth Griggs

Building Better Knees For The NBA

Building Better Knees For The NBA

Editing The Genes Of Superbugs To Turn Off Antibiotic Resistance

Editing The Genes Of Superbugs To Turn Off Antibiotic Resistance

This Pill Can Stop HIV

This Pill Can Stop HIV

By Breanna Draxler

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ZMapp: The Experimental Ebola Treatment Explained

By Lois Parshley

De ano normales

Can a DNA Test for HPV Replace the Pap Smear?

By Hannah Waters

DNA. Medical science, genetic biotechnology, chemistry biology. Innovation technology concept and nano technology background

How DNA Scissors Can Perform Surgery Directly On Your Genes

By Nathalia Holt

What Does It Take To Make Meat From Stem Cells?

What Does It Take To Make Meat From Stem Cells?

By Francie Diep

Pig Heart Transplants For Humans Are On The Way

Pig Heart Transplants For Humans Are On The Way

By Francie Diep

First Human Clone Embryos Created From Adults’ Skin Cells

First Human Clone Embryos Created From Adults’ Skin Cells

By Francie Diep

Milestone Stem-Cell Paper Shows Signs Of Cheating, But The Cells Could Still Be Real

Milestone Stem-Cell Paper Shows Signs Of Cheating, But The Cells Could Still Be Real

By Francie Diep

More Evidence Shows Whooping Cough Evolving In Response To Its Vaccine

More Evidence Shows Whooping Cough Evolving In Response To Its Vaccine

By Francie Diep

Many Promising Embryonic Stem Cell Therapies Ensnared In Legal Loophole

Many Promising Embryonic Stem Cell Therapies Ensnared In Legal Loophole

By Francie Diep

A Glue That Seals Heart Defects

A Glue That Seals Heart Defects

By Francie Diep

Whooping Cough Has Evolved In Response To Its Vaccine

Whooping Cough Has Evolved In Response To Its Vaccine

By Francie Diep

Is Your Pee The Right Color? [Infographic]

Is Your Pee The Right Color? [Infographic]

By Kelsey D. Atherton

5 Old-Timey Medical Treatments That Actually Work

5 Old-Timey Medical Treatments That Actually Work

Sex Positions That Won’t Break Your Artificial Hip, According To Science

Sex Positions That Won’t Break Your Artificial Hip, According To Science

By Shaunacy Ferro

7 Fantastic Vintage Anatomy Drawings

7 Fantastic Vintage Anatomy Drawings

By Francie Diep

Robo-Maggots Will Munch Through Brain Tumors

Robo-Maggots Will Munch Through Brain Tumors

By Shaunacy Ferro

Whoa! Scientists Grow A Brain In A Dish

Whoa! Scientists Grow A Brain In A Dish

By Shaunacy Ferro

Watch Lab-Grown Heart Tissue Beat On Its Own [Video]

Watch Lab-Grown Heart Tissue Beat On Its Own [Video]

By Shaunacy Ferro

FYI: Are Organs Ever Re-Donated?

FYI: Are Organs Ever Re-Donated?

By Lana Birbrair

Getting Heart Surgery? Wait For The Full Moon

Getting Heart Surgery? Wait For The Full Moon

By Shaunacy Ferro

Attention, Men: HPV Vaccine Effective Against Oral Infections Too

Attention, Men: HPV Vaccine Effective Against Oral Infections Too

By Francie Diep

How To Argue With The Anti-Vaccine Crazies: A Guide

How To Argue With The Anti-Vaccine Crazies: A Guide

By Francie Diep

Woman Drinks Coke Instead Of Water For 16 Years

Woman Drinks Coke Instead Of Water For 16 Years

By Dan Nosowitz

Japanese Scientist May Have To Grow His Human Organs In American Pigs

Japanese Scientist May Have To Grow His Human Organs In American Pigs

By Dan Nosowitz

How To Detect Counterfeit Drugs

How To Detect Counterfeit Drugs

By Michael Rosenwald

New Hope For Regrowing Severed Limbs, Just Like Lizards’ Tails

New Hope For Regrowing Severed Limbs, Just Like Lizards’ Tails

By Dan Nosowitz

Synthetic Biologists Engineer A Custom Flu Vaccine In A Week

Synthetic Biologists Engineer A Custom Flu Vaccine In A Week

By Francie Diep

FYI: Are Unvaccinated Kids Really Causing The Whooping Cough Resurgence?

FYI: Are Unvaccinated Kids Really Causing The Whooping Cough Resurgence?

By Francie Diep

Scientists Create First Cloned Human Embryo

Scientists Create First Cloned Human Embryo

By Francie Diep

Vaccine Halts Heroin Addiction In Rats

Vaccine Halts Heroin Addiction In Rats

By Shaunacy Ferro

After 30 Years Off The Market, A Morning Sickness Drug Is Making A Comeback

After 30 Years Off The Market, A Morning Sickness Drug Is Making A Comeback

By Shaunacy Ferro

White Girls Less Likely To Get HPV Vaccine Than Hispanic Girls

White Girls Less Likely To Get HPV Vaccine Than Hispanic Girls

By Francie Diep

How It Works: The Fastest DNA Sequencer

How It Works: The Fastest DNA Sequencer

By Veronique Greenwood

How Neuroscience Will Fight Five Age-Old Afflictions

How Neuroscience Will Fight Five Age-Old Afflictions

By Virginia Hughes

Your Immune System ‘Remembers’ Microbes It’s Never Fought Before, New Study Says

Your Immune System ‘Remembers’ Microbes It’s Never Fought Before, New Study Says

By Rebecca Boyle

This Is Your Brain On Music [Infographic]

This Is Your Brain On Music [Infographic]

By Colin Lecher

Is Dr. Oz Bad For Science?

Is Dr. Oz Bad For Science?

By Colin Lecher

Did Penicillin Kickstart The Sexual Revolution?

Did Penicillin Kickstart The Sexual Revolution?

By Shaunacy Ferro