Have sanctions helped Cubans live longer?
Nature wades into international politics (and some pretty harsh facts) with a theory for the “unintended consequences” file. Researchers are floating the idea that an […]
medicine
Southerners aren’t fatter. Just more honest.
AL.com showcases some science that sets straight some old stereotypes. Southerners don’t have bigger guts than Americans from the North or the West. They just […]
Stem cell headline winner: “Bendable needle increases reach of a single injection to the brain.”
OUCH. Nature pulls no punches with OUCH. The ways they’re moving forward with stem cell therapies are pretty ingenious: Several laboratories are investigating ways to […]
Wii builds better surgeons.
PLOSone is going to lead to videogame suites being installed in major training hospitals, I just know it, thanks to research showing that playing Nintendo […]
Real fake medicine isn’t really fake. It’s real. But how real?
Harvard researcher Ted Kaptchuk is mastering the medical secrets of sleight-of-mind by figuring out how to use placebos as real medicine: Last year, he and […]
Science Art: Appareil Electromedical de G. Trouvet, from La Nature, 1878
This device is “a regulateur des intermittences”, according to La Nature. I’m not sure what “intermittences” are exactly, but Gustave Trouvet was going to fix […]
Tadpole tails are strong medicine
Laboratory Equipment goes all comic book superhero with a medical story on researchers taking the power of regeneration from tadpole tails: For several years Prof. […]
Antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea. If there was any doubt the party was over…
US News pictures a world with incurable sexually transmitted diseases: The fears of major health organizations have come true: Gonorrhea that is immune to the […]
They just invented the wire. (Electrodes that release opiates in the brain.)
Laboratory Equipment reveals a quantum leap in tDCS – transcranial direct current stimulation, or zapping your brain to make it do things differently. As the […]
SONG: “Starts Beating”
SONG: “Starts Beating” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Scientists build a biological pacemaker by injecting a modified virus […]
Science Art: Leriche Syndrome Digital Subtraction Angiography by Hellerhoff.
We’ve talked about digital subtraction angiography before… taking X-ray images and using a computer to remove everything you *don’t* want to see. This image, of […]
Virus rebuilds unhealthy hearts
io9.com, appropriately enough, has the details on a treatment that seems straight out of science fiction – a virus that infects heart cells and turns […]
Face transplantee can see, smell, taste… and SMILE again.
Laboratory Equipment has some good news about a guy who’s had a pretty hard time… Richard Lee Norris needed a new face, and he got […]
Medical science: Not all it’s cracked up to be
Me, I love science. New Scientist does too. So it makes us feel weird to point out that a lot of the time, it just […]
They call Alzheimer’s “type-3 diabetes” – because it’s caused by junk food.
Guardian reports on the growing body of evidence that Alzheimer’s disease comes from what we eat – that the senility disease might actually be caused […]