Latest Medicine Stories
Newest Gates Foundation Grants Include Sweat-Activated Vaccines, Laser-Guided Parasite Killers
A Three-Inch Bio-Detector Quickly Scans For All the Bacteria and Viruses We Know Of, All at Once
Chemical Cocktail Keeps Resurrected Heart Alive for 10 Days Outside of Body
Doctors Perform First-Ever Full Facial Transplant
Fix Farsightedness by Sleeping in Your Contacts
Bio-Sensing Underwear Keeps Tabs on Your Body’s Chemistry
U.K. Launches a Largest-Ever Effort to Turn Genetic Info Into Better Medical Treatments
Pyroelectric Crystals Could Enable the First Truly Portable X-Ray Machine
Scientists Devise A Means For Human Bodies To Break Down Carbon Nanotubes
Chip in a Pill Tells Your Doctor When You Swallow Your Medicine — and When You Don’t
Human Bones Successfully Grown in Lab From Stem Cells
Tested: A Reboot for the Immune System
Gold Nanoparticles and Lasers Kill the Brain Parasite That Causes “Crazy Cat Lady” Syndrome
A New Breed of Medical Screws Dissolve In Body and Promote Bone Growth
In Blitz to Kill One Kind of Infectious Bacteria, Other Untreatable Strains Emerge
Texas Secretly Gave The Blood of 800 Newborns to DNA Database
Scorpion Venom Could Make a Safe Alternative to Morphine
For Test-Tube Babies, Synthetic Environment Could Cause Lasting Genetic Damage
Ultrasound Beams Could Destroy Stroke-Causing Blood Clots in the Brain
Genetically Engineered Pig Lung Successfully Oxygenates Human Blood, Paving the Way For Transplants
Marijuana Research Offers New Hope For Male Birth Control Pill
By Stimulating Stem Cells, Bioactive Nanogel Regenerates Cartilage in Joints
Five Reasons Henrietta Lacks is the Most Important Woman in Medical History
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Brain Scan Shows Vegetative Patient Responding To Yes-or-No Questions
Insulin Can Now Be Made Cheaply from Flowers
Compound LJ001 Acts Like Antibiotic Against Viruses
Synthetic Skin Delivers Gene Therapies Straight to Body, No Needles Necessary
Unwanted Side Effect: Cocaine Vaccine Leads Addicts to Take 10 Times More Cocaine
Wood-Based Synthetic Bone is Just Like the Real Thing
First Commercial 3-D Bioprinter Fabricates Organs To Order
Details Of Brain-Implanted Speech Synthesizer For Locked-In Syndrome Revealed In New Paper
Inhalable Chocolate Paves the Way for a Safer TB Vaccine
New Artificial Larynx Does Away With Dreaded ‘Robot Voice’
Optical Sensors in Robots’ Skin Give Them A Softer Touch
Man Diagnosed ‘Comatose’ For 23 Years Was Actually Conscious All Along
Yikes: Peruvian Jungle Gang Arrested for Selling Fat of Its Murder Victims
Anti-Paralysis Shot Improves Spinal Recovery Three Times As Fast
Italian Court Reduces Murderer’s Sentence Due To Presence of Gene Linked To Violence
Hideous Rodent May Provide Cure For Cancer
Scientists Find A Precision Clock Logging the Milliseconds Inside Your Brain
Wellcome Awards: The Most Stunning Medical Images of 2009
Nobel Prize Awarded for Contributions to the Quest for Immortality
Self-Regulated Morphine Delivery for Wounded Warfighters
The State of the Art of Electronic Noses
Text Messages from a Microchip on Your Shoulder Remind You to Take Your Pills
Panasonic’s Robotic Bed Transforms into a Mobile Chair, Makes Standing Up Obsolete
Freckles and Flab Make Better Stem Cells Than Skin
A Squirt of Stem Cell Gel Heals Brain Injuries
Neurosurgeons Practice on Virtual Simulator before Removing Brain Tumor
Ant-Sized Microbots Travel in Swarms
Find Out How You’ll Die, In 4 Easy Online Steps
Radioactive Cancer-Binding Buckyballs For Targeted Chemotherapy
Training Machines to Detect the Smell Of Death
Cyborg Update: Bone-Anchored Hearing Aids Add iPod Input To Your Skull
Lab-on-a-Chip Can Carry Out Over 1,000 Chemical Reactions at Once
Stem Cells Used To Grow a New Tooth Inside a Mouse’s Mouth
Music-Powered Lab-On-A-Chip Promises Easier Health Screening
CAVEman 3-D Virtual Patient Is a Holodeck For the Human Body
Twendy-One Nursebot Says Sit Up and Eat Your Jell-O
Tested: Bedside Brainwave Scanner Grades Your Ability to Sleep
Virtual-Reality Dental Training Is as Gory as You’d Expect
Control a Robot with Your Mind
Cool Plasma Blowtorch Kills Plaque, Cleans Teeth, Makes Obi-Wan Proud
A Smart Football Helmet Monitors Players’ Health